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Lauren Malone

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Lauren Malone is a CNA expert in military manpower issues, including recruiting, force quality, diversity, in-service benefits, retention, and transition out of service.

Malone-Lauren Lauren Malone is a CNA expert in military manpower issues, including recruiting, force quality, diversity, in-service benefits, retention, and transition out of service. /images/Experts/Malone-Lauren.webp Lauren Malone is an expert in military manpower issues, including recruiting, force quality, diversity, in-service benefits, retention, and transition out of service. Her research ... and Latino studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is fluent in Spanish. Lauren Malone Ph.D. Principal Research Scientist Featured Squares white Explore more

Tracking Outcomes of Voluntary Military Education Programs Review

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The Department of Defense (DoD) provides education benefits to Servicemembers and their spouses. Two such benefits are the Tuition Assistance (TA) program, designed to decrease the financial burden of higher education for military members, and the My Career Advancement Account (MyCAA) scholarship program, a workforce development program designed to assist eligible military spouses in pursuing training, licenses, credentials, certifications, and associate degrees in support of developing portable employment and careers. A dearth of information on the educational and financial outcomes of TA and MyCAA users prompted Congress to mandate, in the 2014 DoD Appropriations Bill, a study to document the aggregate graduation rates, financial indebtedness, and loan default rates of these military families. Here, we summarize information from the TA and MyCAA literature. However, because little information is currently available, we also explore the civilian higher education literature on tuition reimbursement, graduation rates, student debt, and loan default rates. This provides the relevant background information needed for the quantitative portion of this study, in which we will collect and analyze available data on educational outcomes for TA and MyCAA users.

this flexibility for their students, which may make them particularly attractive to TA and MyCAA users. Lauren Malone Elizabeth Clelan /reports/2021/04 ... unlimited. 62 DRM-2014-U-008864-2Rev Lauren Malone

Evaluation of the Fitness Report System

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The Fitness Report (FitRep) is an evaluation tool filled out by a Marine’s reporting senior (RS) and reviewing officer (RO) that communicates the reporting officials’ assessments of the Marine’s performance and character to a variety of boards. Today’s FitRep system was implemented on January 1, 1999. Like the previous system, it supports promotion boards’ selection and retention of the most qualified Marines in the grades of sergeant through major general, the slating of officers for command or resident school billet assignments, and all other billet assignments. The Director, Manpower Management Division, asked CNA to review whether the system is accomplishing what the Marine Corps intended. Specifically, the director would like to know whether the current FitRep system is suffering from grade inflation, whether it is fair to all officers, and whether it contributes to the challenges that leaders and manpower process managers face in selecting the most qualified officers for promotion and career progression. Although enlisted Marines in paygrades E-5 through E-9 also receive FitReps, we were asked to focus solely on Marine officers.

for, and how much weight they assign to specific phrases, would improve fairness. Adam Clemens Lauren Malone /reports/2012/DRM-2012-U-001003-Final.pdf /reports/2012/DRM-2012-U-001003-Final_Page_001

Hispanic Representation in the Military and Civilian Sectors

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This CNA report on programs, policy, and data on Hispanic members of the armed services was mandated by Congress in the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.

will require carefully designed program and policy evaluation. Lauren Malone Kevin Ng /reports/2024/03/Hispanic-Representation-in-the-Military-and-Civilian-Sectors.pdf /reports/2024/03

Recruiting, Retaining, and Promoting Hispanic Servicemembers

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CNA performed data analysis on recruitment, retention, and promotion of Hispanic officers and enlisted servicemembers, as mandated by Congress in the 2022 NDAA.

release: distribution unlimited. 144 DRM-2023-U-035649-2Rev Lauren Malone Kevin Ng Jeffery Tobin Eduardo Gamarra with contributions by Cathy Hiatt /reports/2024/03

Description of the Army’s systems thinking pilot on suicide prevention

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The process of a pilot systems thinking workshop, retreat, and meeting to explore approaches to suicide prevention is described so it can be replicated.

unlimited. 54 DRM-2022-U-034274-Final David Peter Stroh Patricia Kannapel An Army Systems Thinking Pilot on Suicide Prevention Lauren Malone Christopher Gonzales Heather Wolters

Recommendations to Enhance Army Suicide Prevention

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CNA and the Army Resilience Directorate conducted a systems thinking pilot program to explore approaches to suicide prevention and develop recommendations.

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Voluntary Military Education Programs Compilation

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Over the past five years, CNA has conducted studies in support of Department of Defense Voluntary Education, with a specific focus on evaluating Servicemembers’ use of the Tuition Assistance (TA) program, their associated educational outcomes, and potential changes to TA policies and practices. This report is a compilation of four CNA studies; it includes Service- and education-sector–level comparisons in student enrollment, cost, TA use, and positive TA outcomes (e.g., attaining a degree or having a high course completion rate). One of our primary findings is that TA users can expect a more successful transition to civilian life, though some of these benefits (e.g., improved employment prospects) can be reaped only with a degree. We also find that, despite the relatively poor outcomes at private for-profit institutions, TA users increasingly enroll in them. Our analysis also reveals which Servicemembers—based on military and demographic characteristics—are most likely to be successful TA users. We identify those subpopulations who are among the Services’ more active TA users but also the least likely to experience positive TA outcomes, thus highlighting groups that might benefit from targeted counseling efforts. Finally, we make recommendations to help equalize access to the TA program across the Services and increase all TA users’ likelihood of completing courses and ultimately attaining degrees.

a study to document the aggregate graduation rates, financial indebtedness, and loan default rates of these military families. Lauren Malone /reports/2021/08

Tracking Outcomes of Voluntary Education Programs Characterizing

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In this report, we use individual-level data provided by each of the Services, Force Education and Training, and the Defense Manpower Data Center to estimate whether individual Servicemembers use Tuition Assistance (TA) and whether they are among the Services’ more active TA users. In addition, we analyze which military and demographic characteristics are important in determining whether a Servicemember experiences a positive TA outcome (defined as attaining any degree, attaining a bachelor’s degree or higher, and/or having a high course completion rate). Ultimately, by identifying those subpopulations of Servicemembers who are among the Services’ more active TA users but also are among the least likely to experience positive TA outcomes, we identify those groups that might benefit from targeted counseling efforts. Such discussions could prepare Servicemembers for the challenges that lie ahead, making their ultimate success more likely.

that they do not lack the desire for additional education but could use guidance in how to navigate the educational system and balance their educational and other goals. Elizabeth Clelan Lauren Malone

Tracking Outcomes of Voluntary Military Education Programs Data

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In this report, we used individual-level data provided by each of the Services and Force Education and Training to calculate the Tuition Assistance (TA) and My Career Advancement Account (MyCAA) educational outcome statistics of Servicemembers and their spouses, as requested in the 2014 DOD Appropriations Bill. These tabulations compare not only outcomes by Service but also by institutional sector (private for-profit, private not-for-profit, and public). By making these Service- and sector-level comparisons, we highlight differences in TA and MyCAA enrollment, cost, number of courses taken, credits received, courses completed, and degrees received. These summarized outcome measures will provide policy-makers with a better understanding of the differences that exist across Services and education sectors, allowing them to evaluate how the Services are using these Voluntary Education benefits.

for differences in participants’ characteristics or in the quality of institutions attended. Daniel Leeds Lauren Malone /reports/2021/04/Tracking-Outcomes-of-Voluntary-Education-Programs-A-Data-Analysis.pdf