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Veterans Success Initiative

This report outlines the success initiative for veterans in the Montana University System, focusing on funding, services, and support for veteran students to excel in higher education. The key areas covered include dedicated spaces, academic services, financial literacy education, and workforce placement post-graduation. The report emphasizes the importance of increasing enrollment, retention rates, completions, and workforce placement for veteran students. Best practices, gap analysis, and allocation processes were completed to ensure effective implementation.

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Veterans Success Initiative

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  1. Veterans Success Initiative Report to the Board of Regents September 18, 2013

  2. Veterans Success Initiative Description: • Ensure that the MUS continues to excel as a veterans friendly system by providing the services and instruction needed for today’s veterans to complete college. • Received $1M one-time only funding for the 2015 biennium for veterans space and services

  3. Space and Services Funding • Specific items to be funded: • Ensure dedicated space for veterans is available on all campuses • Veterans oriented academic and student services, advising, peer mentoring, counseling, and health/mental health services • Financial literacy education and outreach activities to engage veterans on campus • System-wide veterans website/portal to provide information on veterans benefits and opportunities, admissions and college planning , transfer of military training/courses • Enrollment and student success tracking • Entire amount allocated to campuses for direct impact • Developed MUS Veterans Information Website/Portal

  4. Measures • Service levels across the system will be increased to meet the unique challenges veterans face with engaging and succeeding in higher education • Enrollment (total # of veterans enrolled each year) • Retention Rates (% returning for 2nd year of enrollment) • Completions (# veterans receiving degrees and certificates) • Workforce Placement (% of veterans receiving degrees and certificates that find) employment in Montana within one year following graduation) • Report to the Board at a future meeting

  5. Process • Best Practices from Veterans Taskforce • Campuses completed Gap Analysis • Allocation/RFP Process to ensure space and services were addressed • Allocation amounts based on number of veterans enrolled at a campus and veteran population who could potentially become students in the area served by the campus

  6. Allocations

  7. MUS Veterans Website • One-stop shop for veterans to access information • Benefits available • Services available at campuses • Transfer of credits • Online learning options • Links to individual campus veterans websites • Campus veterans websites being upgraded as part of the initiative • Promotion of website in collaboration with Governor’s Office

  8. MUS Veterans Website http://files.safmt.org/vet/index.html

  9. Questions?

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