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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"student veteran"”.
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Student Veteran Programs in the United States: Literature Review and Survey Findings
There is an increase in military veterans in the United States who are attending colleges and universities, especially as servicemen and women are returning from recent military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Military veterans transitioning back into civilian life and postsecondary education face …
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PROTOTYPES OF STUDENT VETERANS WITH POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY AMONG FACULTY IN ILLINOIS PUBLIC FOUR-YEAR UNIVERSITIES
One of the primary reasons many college students with disabilities, and more specifically college student veterans with disabilities, do not seek support services is due to the stigma associated with disability, especially cognitive and mental health disabilities. The purpose of the present study …
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An Examination of the Identification of Student Veterans within the University System of Georgia to Assist in the Decision-Making Process to Better Serving Them
… exists regarding the identification of its student veterans. In support of the significant number of veterans living in Georgia and more of them utilizing VA educational benefits, the purpose of the research was to explore the various means in which USG institutions identify student veterans …
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Advising Student Veterans in Higher Education
<p>Student veterans are a growing population in higher education with over 650,000 veterans using education benefits in 2018. Student veterans are enrolling in colleges of all types, and many institutions have support services designed for them specifically. In most cases these support services are …
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Student veterans' career services in higher education
This qualitative study investigated student veterans’ awareness of, access to, and use of U.S. military veteran-centered career development resources, services, and programs that are necessary to enhance their transitional career development and preparedness while in higher education at a large …
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Veteran-Students in Transition at a Midwestern University
… much research has been conducted on military veterans who enroll in institutions of higher education following their returns from deployment, much of that work has focused on issues such as veterans’ finances or academic achievement, rather than the individuals’ transitions from deployment to …
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Liberation through Listening: Learning from Student Veterans in the Composition Classroom
… a qualitative study to explore experiences of student veterans in introductory writing classrooms. Drawing on the theories of feminist standpoint (Harding, 1986) and rhetorical listening (Ratcliffe, 2005), I describe the current cultural divide between members of the military and civilians (Pew …
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The Transition Experiences of Re-Enrolling Student Veterans at a Public Four-Year University
… the transition experiences of re-enrolling student veterans. This research question guided the study: What are the barriers and strategies for resolution that reenrolling student veterans face in their pre- and post-service transition experiences? I conducted semi-structured, intensive …
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Community, Purpose, and Empowerment: Developing a Support Program with Student Veterans
… mixed-method studies evaluated factors impacting student veterans at a Midwestern community college, particularly their sense of community and how their perceptions and experiences relate to academic success. Research on student veterans indicates that many face challenges beyond physical and …
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The transfer veteran student experience: Exploring college choice, transition, and collegiate experiences of veterans
… more than a decade. As a result, over 2 million veterans have been deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), and Operation New Dawn. In 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law provisions for what has been commonly referred to as the Post 9/11 …
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The University Experiences of Post-9/11 Native American Veterans: Strategic Support For Inclusion, Retention, & Success
… shape and influence Post-9/11 Native American Student Veterans to enter, persist, and graduate from a mainstream institution of higher education. Moreover, it is a qualitative assessment that explores how Post-9/11 Native American Student Veterans navigate the collegiate environment and balance …
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Student veterans and university support services: A phenomenological study
… study was to describe the lived experiences of student veterans at an institution of higher learning in Hawaii in an attempt to better assist the reintegration of veterans as students at the institution. The aim of this study was to use the study’s findings to identify the disconnect, if any, …
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Veterans transition : analyzing the potential for vocational voucher programs as targeted workforce development & trauma mitigation strategies
… was designed as a way to integrate the returning veteran population into the workforce through the vehicle of higher education. Standing to cost in upwards of $200 billion, it is not clear whether college campuses have the internal controls and processes in place to effectively assist the veteran …
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U.S. Military Student Veterans Identity Formation: Policy Feedback and Symbolic Interactionism
… psychology and sociology is synthesized around student veterans as a new phenomenon in higher education and public policy. By examining student veterans through the Social Construction of Target Populations (SCTP) framework, these articles contribute to the theoretical understanding of how …
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A Bridge Program's Effect on Non-College Ready Student Veterans
… remediate academic deficiencies for a cohort of student veterans has any bearing on their post-secondary success and persistence. Specifically, this study examined the Veterans Bridge to College Success (VBCS) pilot program at Eastern Kentucky University, which provides an admission pathway for …
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Peacing it Together: Post 9/11 Enlisted Student Veterans’ Awakening to Peace Leadership
<p>Student veterans face a spectrum of socialization challenges intrapersonally, interpersonally, in communities, and structurally due to the cultural differences between the military and college. More comprehensive programs that individually and collectively address these challenges need to be …
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A study of student-veterans and academic engagement
… For an increasingly large percentage of such veterans, the decision that they will make will be to become full-time college students and pursue an education that will provide them with meaningful careers. Unfortunately, due to the type of constant deployment cycles that many student-veterans …
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Veteran Influx: A Qualitative Study Examining the Transition Experiences of Student Veterans from the Military to College
… changed in its recommendations on how to serve student veterans. If campus administrators expect to support veteran students in their transitions, they need empirical research about the transition experiences of veteran students and not rely on best practices that are not supported by empirical …
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Phenomenological Study on Veteran Resource Center (VRC) in California Community Colleges
… of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, the largest student veteran enrollments have taken place at community colleges. Student veterans are considered <em>at-risk students</em> due to their high attrition rates in higher education. There is a lack of literature regarding the experiences of staff …
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Cisgender Women Student Veterans' Lived Experiences Inside the College Classroom
Women student veterans have been an understudied student population for decades. Although researchers have explored women student veterans' transition to higher education from the military, challenges relating to their peers, and mental health and service-related disabilities, there is virtually no …
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