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Dilger, Robert Jay; Lowry, Sean – Congressional Research Service, 2020
Several federal agencies, including the Small Business Administration (SBA), provide training and other assistance to veterans seeking civilian employment. For example, the Department of Defense (DOD), in cooperation with the SBA, Department of Labor, Department of Veterans Affairs, and several other federal agencies, operates the Transition Goals…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Public Agencies, Veterans, Veterans Education
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Daly, Dion D.; Fox Garrity, Bonnie K. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2017
This chapter provides a taxonomy of student veterans in the form of a codebook to assist in institutional data collection and analysis.
Descriptors: Veterans, Military Personnel, Military Service, Institutional Research
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Vacchi, David; Hammond, Shane; Diamond, Aynsley – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2017
This chapter focuses on conceptual models that may enable institutional researchers and scholars to better study the student veteran experience.
Descriptors: Veterans Education, Higher Education, Student Experience, Veterans
Mikulka, D.; Remy, K.; Smith, C.; Fox, H. L. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2016
In 2011, Washburn University of Topeka, Kansas was awarded a $19.6 million Round 1 TAACCCT grant through the Department of Labor to provide industry-relevant, hands-on training for high-demand, high-wage careers. The consortium, Technical Retraining to Achieve Credentials (TRAC-7), was led by Washburn University, and included seven Kansas…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Veterans Education, Transitional Programs, Partnerships in Education
Nevada System of Higher Education, 2016
The Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) is dedicated to supporting student veterans and their families in pursuing their educational goals. Student veterans are growing in number not only in Nevada, but across the nation. This particular student population often faces unique challenges in assimilating back into civilian life. It is the goal…
Descriptors: Veterans Education, Enrollment Trends, Higher Education, Access to Education
Pulley, John – Lumina Foundation for Education, 2013
The transition to college presents significant challenges to many returning veterans. These students are, in many ways, the most nontraditional of all nontraditional students. These soldier/scholars are set apart from their campus peers--by age, by life experience, by envelopment in the military culture, and all too often by a close-up view of…
Descriptors: Veterans Education, Military Personnel, College Students, Student Needs