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Helping Our Veterans: What We Can Do

Discover how to help student veterans successfully transition from combat to college, providing empathy, resources, and support to foster resilience, self-esteem, and academic achievement.

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Helping Our Veterans: What We Can Do

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  1. Helping Our Veterans: What We Can Do

  2. Resilience and Achievement • Classroom Challenges

  3. From Combat to College

  4. Veterans As Agents of Change • On The Campus Community

  5. Impact of the GI Bill

  6. University Enrolled Veterans

  7. The Transition • From Combat • To College

  8. For College Success Veterans Must Make the transition FROM a highly STRUCTURED environment TO one that expects a great deal of INDEPENDENCE

  9. What Do Student Veterans NOT Need? The GOAL is to convey to the Veterans that What do all human beings need? What Do Student Veterans Need? To be put down, judged, treated less than the best from you Probing questions about their military experience They deserve higher education Acceptance and Genuineness They can achieve higher education Expertise and Understanding Questions about their disabilities unless it is caring to assist with learning Empathy and Firm Guidance They are supported as they move forward to meet their full potential

  10. RESILIENCE Self Esteem & Confidence GOAL Achievement

  11. Additional Resources That Support Veterans in School

  12. Transition Into College

  13. What Do Veterans Bring to the Classroom? • Flexibility:Veterans are better prepared to handle differences • Worldly Outlook: Veterans have experiences of living abroad and knowing other cultures. • Academic Abilities: Veterans are focused and determined Veteran Qualities: loyalty, leadership, respect, integrity, duty, reliability, and working as a team

  14. Resources • http://www.todaysgibill.org/ • http://www.soc.aascu.org/Default.html • http://www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ProgramsServices/MilitaryPrograms/index.htm • http://www.studentveterans.org/ • http://www.gibill.va.gov/ • https://www.ww2012.com/common/home.action • Department of Defense • Veterans Education Symposium

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