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- 2. Advising Veterans: Challenges and Constraints Presenters: Donna Carey, Assistant to the Dean Kevin Dean, Assessment Specialist Desiree Drindak, Military Academic Advisor Center for Distance Learning Saratoga, NY NACADA March 13, 2009
- 23. Contact Information Donna Carey Assistant to the Dean [email_address] Kevin Dean Assessment Specialist [email_address] Desiree Drindak Military Academic Advisor [email_address]
Editor's Notes
- 1971, the college graduated over 54,000 students with associate, bachelor’s and master’s degrees. The college served over 18,000 students in 2007-08.
- Women outnumbered men in all areas of study except Labor Studies , Science, Math and Technology and Historical Studies .
- In 2007-08, there were nearly 242,000 credits generated by students at the college total. The median time to degree for bachelor’s degree students was 2.79 years in 2007-08.
- There is a perception in higher education that many more veterans will attend college with the new GI bill and colleges should be prepared for the influx of this population that has many special needs
- RAND report by Alair MacLean
- It has been widely reported in the news that the new GI bill is expected to cause a surge of military/ veteran enrollments in higher education. The Department of Veterans Affairs (V.A.) G.I. Bill website states that “by the time the original G.I. Bill ended in July 1956, 7.8 million World War II veterans had participated in an education or training program” (V.A.). It is unknown exactly how many or if there will be an increase as many colleges but believe but it important to have the necessary tools in place to deal with any influx of Americas veterans into higher education. One of these tools is specific advising that recognizes the military student as a veteran. This is important because as Siebold who is a military researcher discusses the military clearly has its own culture and therefore should be examined from a sociological point of view. In this last decade of conflicts increases in armor have led to better survivability from attacks but increased injuries.
- Institutions teaching military students should be aware that while it is okay for the military student to have their own unique and some what insular cultural identity it is also important to expose those students to a broad range of ideas and to challenge them.