Called to Serve A Handbook on Student Veterans and Higher Education

by Hamrick, Florence A.; Rumann, Corey B.

• ISBN13: 9781118176764
• ISBN10: 1118176766
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-12
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Call to Serve builds upon the long history of educating veterans and updates the knowledge base and brings currency to what have been more traditional institutional efforts and responses to meet veterans' needs. Examples include current patterns of multiple deployments and returns and the accompanying stop-out and re-enrollment periods for student veterans. Costs for students have risen, as have military educational benefit provisions and institutional incentives. Additionally, current administrators and faculty members likely have very little memory of serving growing numbers of veterans enrolling or re-enrolling in colleges and universities. This resource contains updated information and perspectives regarding meeting needs of current student veterans.

Author Biography

Florence A. Hamrick is a professor of educational psychology at the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is coauthor with John Schuh and Nancy Evans of Foundations of Student Affairs Practice from Jossey-Bass.

Corey B. Rumann is an assistant professor of practice in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Table of Contents

Preface: Setting the Context
Florence A. Hamrick and Corey B. Rumann

About the Editors

About the Contributors

1 The Military and Higher Education in the United States
Dexter Alexander and John R. Thelin

2 Contemporary Political and Legislative Frameworks for Serving Veterans and Service Members Enrolled in Higher Education
Sally Caspers and Robert Ackerman

Vignette
Josh Lang

3 Activations, Deployments, and Returns
Wade G. Livingston and Mark C. Bauman

Vignette
Nina Duong

4 Contemporary Student Veterans and Service Members: Enrollment Patterns and Student Engagement
Danielle DeSawal

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Sally Caspers

5 The Complexity of Veteran Identity: Understanding the Role of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Susan V. Iverson and Rachel Anderson

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Annie Rose Badder

6 Understanding Disability in the Student Veteran Community
Amanda Kraus and Nicholas A. Rattray

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Amanda Irish

7 Enrollment, Transfers, and Degree Completion for Veterans
John D. Mikelson and Kevin P. Saunders

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Jonathan Miller

8 Offices of Veterans and Military Services
Stephen G. Abel, Robert J. Bright, and R.M. Cooper

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Kathy Meyers

9 Focused Learning Environments for Student Veterans
Sarah Minnis, Stephanie Bondi, and Corey B. Rumann

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Paul Tschudi

10 Student Veterans Organizations and Student Self-Advocacy
Brian Hawthorne, Mark C. Bauman, and Leah Ewing Ross

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Joe Sorge

11 Institutional Leadership on Serving Student Veterans and Service Members
Tom Jackson, Jr., Charles J. Fey, and Leah Ewing Ross

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Nicholas Osborne

12 Promoting Organizational Change to Create a Veteran-Friendly Campus: A Case Study
Jan Arminio and Tomoko Kudo Grabosky

Conclusion: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Corey B. Rumann and Florence A. Hamrick

Glossary

Appendix Military Ranks

Index