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Charlotte Meierdirk – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: Many veterans struggle with the civilian world and the loss of identity associated with leaving the service. This research investigates the Building Heroes Charity's role in assisting service leavers transitioning to civil employment, in the United Kingdom (UK) and what can be learnt from the training and support.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Veterans, Veterans Education, Transitional Programs
Christina R. McDonald – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Higher learning institutions have encountered increasing student-veteran enrollment rates due to the surge of servicemembers discharged from the military in recent years. Community colleges have also experienced increased rates of student veterans choosing two-year institutions either to pursue a technical degree or to enroll in courses…
Descriptors: Veterans Education, Veterans, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
Samuel L. Bagwell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Military experience alone is no longer enough to replace a college degree for many civilian jobs, leaving nearly 15% of transitioning veterans at a disadvantage without higher education credentials. This study explored how active-duty Marines decide whether to pursue postsecondary education and assessed the role of the voluntary education (VolED)…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Veterans Education, Decision Making, Higher Education
Lindsay Elise Blount – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this formative program evaluation of a military-to-civilian transition program at a university sought to evaluate participant perceptions of the program. The evaluation focused on the perceptions of program effectiveness after one year of program participation. Because the program was in its first year, it was appropriate to examine…
Descriptors: Wellness, Program Evaluation, Transitional Programs, Military Personnel
Bergman, Matt; Herd, Ann M.; Green, Ehren R. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
The veteran military-to-civilian transition (MCT) process continues to be complex and unwielding. Higher education has an opportunity to ease this transition, but, unfortunately many institutions still miss the mark. One mechanism higher education institutes can incorporate to help with the transition is the use of prior learning assessments or…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Student Evaluation, Transitional Programs, Military Personnel
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
Andrew Hamilton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences and motivational factors that influenced educational and career decisions of United States military veterans who transitioned out of the military and into an information technology (IT)-related career field. The study investigated the reasons veterans decided to pursue IT-related careers,…
Descriptors: Guided Pathways, Veterans, Military Personnel, Transitional Programs
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
Williams-Klotz, Denise N.; Gansemer-Topf, Ann M. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2017
This study summarizes the qualitative findings from a multi-institutional study about the college transition experiences of military and veteran students, specifically students' articulation of their needs. Findings reveal (a) a lack of inprocessing, (b) need for community, and (c) institutional invisibility. Using the Student Veteran Transition…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Veterans, Veterans Education, College Students
Russell, Terry – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Purpose: This research was intended to identify some of the factors that impact student veterans' well-being, based on their unmet needs. Research by the USC School of Social Work Center for innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families USC-CIR (2015) found that many service members separate from the military ill-equipped to begin…
Descriptors: Well Being, Veterans Education, Veterans, Student Needs
Kaycee Budd – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how the military and veteran services offices in public institutions are supporting student veterans in their higher education journey. This study was aimed to allow Chief Military and Veteran Services Officers (CMVSO) in 4-year public institutions to identify challenges and opportunities in…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Veterans Education, Student Personnel Services, Public Colleges
Hall, Steven Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The primary purpose of the research study was to examine the Army's Transition Assistance program, achieve a comprehensive understanding of Army culture from the perspective of senior enlisted members and their subsequent contingent valuations regarding mentoring colleagues in transition from active duty commitment to the civilian sector. Study…
Descriptors: Mentors, Transitional Programs, Predictor Variables, Armed Forces
Hart, Frank – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to investigate the lived experiences of enlisted military veterans living in the United States, seeking employment in the civilian workforce after transitioning from active duty military service. This study also explored the enlisted military veterans' perceived effectiveness of the redesigned…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Military Personnel, Veterans, Qualitative Research
Morant, Nicole Barbara – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Increases in the number of enlisted veterans transitioning from active duty to the civilian world have drawn attention to a need for research in terms of unemployment to examine how separated service members experience transition from their perspective. Fifteen separated enlisted veterans from four of the five military branches were selected and…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Veterans, Transitional Programs, Labor Force
DeLucia, Jennifer Marie – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2016
Beyond having knowledge of the treatment of combat-related trauma, art therapists need to understand veterans' experiences of transition from military to civilian life in order to offer effective interventions. This article reviews the literature on veteran transition and the challenges common to transition difficulty and describes two major…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Veterans, Transitional Programs, War