Veterans in Higher Education (PDF)

It's estimated that, in the coming decade, as many as 2 millionstudents with military experience will take advantage of theireducation benefits and attend institutions in all sectors of highereducation. This monograph provides useful information aboutstudents with military experience who attending college by blendingthe theoretical, practical and empirical.

The authors assemble some of the best-known theories andresearch in the literature of the field to provide starting pointsfrom which to investigate the phenomenon of today's veteranattending college. Other frameworks and theories, particularly fromthe literature on college student development, from recognizablenames such as Baxter Magolda, Braxton, Chickering, Schlossberg, andTinto, are used--sometimes directly in their own words. New issuesto our generation, such as the unique subpopulation of womenveterans and the challenges they face, are explored.

This volume equips higher education professional with afundamental understanding of the issues faced by the studentveteran population and aims to enable them in their roles ofproviding sorely needed assistance in the transition to college,persistence at the institution, and degree attainment.

This is the third issue in the 37th volume of the Jossey-Bassseries ASHE Higher Education Report. Each monographin the series is the definitive analysis of a tough highereducation problem, based on thorough research of pertinentliterature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified bya national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are thencommissioned to write the reports, with experts providing criticalreviews of each manuscript before publication.