{"id":668,"date":"2026-06-15T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/xnursing\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=668"},"modified":"2026-07-08T07:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:44:22","slug":"valor-act","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/docs\/handbook\/general-policies\/valor-act\/","title":{"rendered":"VALOR Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greenfield Community college welcomes students with prior military experience. The college recognizes that much of the training and coursework undertaken by military personnel warrants review and potential transfer as academic credit. To that end, we have established the following guidelines for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/admissions\/transfer-students\/valor-act\/\">transfer of military education, training or service<\/a> in accordance with <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Laws\/GeneralLaws\/PartI\/TitleII\/Chapter15A\/Section43#:~:text=Section%2043\">Mass General Law Chapter 15A, Section 43<\/a>. <strong>Currently GCC nursing programs do not accept prior military experience for transfer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":227,"menu_order":30,"template":"","meta":{"_is_vendor_doc":"0","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"doc_tag":[4594],"class_list":["post-668","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_tag-born"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/668\/revisions\/790"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/227"}],"next":[{"title":"Visitors","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/docs\/handbook\/general-policies\/visitors\/","href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/679"}],"prev":[{"title":"Transfer","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/docs\/handbook\/general-policies\/transfer\/","href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}