Veterans in higher education
Subtitle: when Johnny and Jane come marching to campus
By: David DiRamio, Kathryn Jarvis
Contributors: Jarvis, Kathryn
Series: ASHE higher education report -- v. 37, no. 3; ASHE higher education report -- v. 37, no. 3.
Publisher: Wiley/Jossey-Bass
Published: 2011
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781118150795
Subjects: Veterans; Education (Higher); Education; Soldiers; Education, Non-military; Scholarships, fellowships; Higher Education; Veteran; Studium; Hochschule
Description: It's estimated that, in the coming decade, as many as 2 million students with military experience will take advantage of their education benefits and attend institutions in all sectors of higher education. This monograph provides useful information about students with military experience who attending college by blending the theoretical, practical and empirical. The authors assemble some of the best-known theories and research in the literature of the field to provide starting points from which to investigate the phenomenon of today's veteran attending college. Other frameworks and theories, particularly from the literature on college student development, from recognizable names such as Baxter Magolda, Braxton, Chickering, Schlossberg, and Tinto, are used, sometimes directly in their own words. New issues to our generation, such as the unique subpopulation of women veterans and the challenges they face, are explored. This volume equips higher education professional with a fundamental understanding of the issues faced by the student veteran population and aims to enable them in their roles of providing sorely needed assistance in the transition to college, persistence at the institution, and degree attainment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-133) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Old Friends and New Faces; title: Home Alone? : Applying Theories of Transition to Support Student Veterans' Success. A model for supporting student veterans' transition ; Commentary from Nancy K. Schlossberg; title: What Matters to Veterans? : Peer Influences and the Campus Environment. The military bond ; Inputs, environment, and outcomes ; Inputs, environment, and outcomes for veterans ; Peer group supports and influences ; Commentary from Alexander W. Astin; title: Transition 2.0: Using Tinto's Model to Understand Student Veterans' Persistence. Transition and preentry attributes ; Goals and commitments ; Initial institutional experiences ; Transition 2.0: academic and social integration ; Transition 2.0: academic and social integration with the campus community ; Career services and the student veteran ; New goals and intent to persist ; Critics of academic and social integration ; Commentary from John M. Braxton; title: Crisis of Identity? : Veteran, Civilian, Student. Identity development and knowledge of self ; Self and others ; Multiple roles and intersecting identities ; Crisis, exploration, and commitment ; Multiple dimensions of identity; title: Typologies ; Commentary from Linda Reisser; title: Women Warriors: Supporting Female Student Veterans. Enduring effects of male turf: gender and assumptions ; Mothers and warriors: care and justice ; Into a college environment: developing a voice ; Help seeking: learning to cope ; Marching together ; Commentary from Margaret Baechtold; title: Ideas for a Self-Authorship Curriculum for Students With Military Experience. Classes for veterans ; Meaning making and self-authorship ; Concept mapping for curriculum planning ; Commentary from Marcia B. Baxter Magolda; title: Institutional Response to an Emerging Population of Veterans.  EFA factor one: financial matters ; EFA factor two: administrative and strategic planning ; EFA factor three: Advising and career services ; EFA factor four: psychological counseling services ; EFA factor five: veterans office on campus; title: A Veteran's Essay; title: Example Syllabus.