Learn how organizations and institutions have successfully increased the retention rates of their veteran and military-connected students. Tanya Ang of the American Council on Education and Bruce Kelley with University of South Dakota will discuss:
Common issues impacting military-connected students’ success
Critical areas of support that you may be missing
Student support and community services that can help
Methods for creating veteran-friendly classrooms
Who should attend?
Student support and academic professionals charged with military-connected student success will benefit from this event. You may want to bring a team together with representatives from:
Veterans Services
Academic advisors
Student services
Career services
Retention professionals
Registrars
Agenda
The current landscape: understanding the growing population of military-connected students
Common issues facing students who are military veterans
Successful support services
Student Services
Admissions
Advising & Career Services
Benefits
Earning college credit
Community Services & the Institution
Identifying and addressing potential academic risks
Community engagement to address needs and mitigate costs on the institution
Creative ways institutions are addressing issues on their campuses
Institutions across the US are seeing an increasing rate of military-connected students. As with other “non-traditional” populations, this subset can often feel disconnected from their peers. Many are older than the 18-22 range, some have families or other commitments, and they often have jobs in addition to their classes. Many struggle with feeling that they “belong” in academe. This affords a huge opportunity for your institution to incorporate support services and develop faculty in a way that greatly impacts the success of this growing student population.
