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Susan Rutherford – ProQuest LLC, 2024
States recognize that a workforce skill shortage exists and have started educational initiatives to prepare students for workforce readiness and postsecondary success. There is a growing consensus among states that the goal of our education system is to prepare students for a career, college, or the military by providing all students with…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Military Service, Credentials
William Carpenter – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore how veterans of color learned positive coping strategies to endure the challenges experienced during their transition from active duty. There has been limited research examining the veterans' of color experiences during their transition from active duty military. The research questions focused on how…
Descriptors: Veterans, African Americans, Coping, Military Service
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Jeff Deickman; James Mattox; Phillip A. Morris – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2024
This study evaluates the implementation of policies and practices related to prior learning assessment (PLA) for military training and experience in Colorado community colleges. Through conducting interviews and a document analysis, this case study aimed to provide policy and practice recommendations for states, systems, and institutions to…
Descriptors: Military Service, Military Personnel, Community Colleges, Prior Learning
Ashley Cree – ProQuest LLC, 2022
There are a number of challenges associated with being a military spouse. Military culture prioritizes the needs of service members over those of military spouses. The cost of traversing this path is the sacrifice of personal goals and aspirations to tend to the needs of their service member and other family members. The cultural expectation of…
Descriptors: Spouses, Military Service, Academic Aspiration, Higher Education
Jane E. Brannan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
National Guard students experience academic disruptions when military service and college academic coursework overlap. The pace of military operations and the increased reliance on the National Guard raise the likelihood of more disruptions for National Guard students who are enrolled in higher education. Extended weekend drill, state active duty,…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Military Service, College Students, College Enrollment
Heriberto Arambula Acosta – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This autoethnographic study examined the challenges and difficulties a post-9/11 combat veteran faced as they transitioned and reintegrated into civilian life post-military service. With suicide rates in the veteran community reaching alarming rates, this study explored personal narratives and perspectives on reintegration to counter the deficit…
Descriptors: Veterans, Military Service, Personal Narratives, Transformative Learning
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Shopina, Iryna; Khrystynchenko, Nadiia; Koropatnik, Ihor; Khomiakov, Dmytro; Zaitsev, Mykola – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2022
The urgency of the issue of the development of integrity and intolerance to corruption in the system of preparation for military service is becoming increasingly publicised, since the number of such negative social phenomena, manifested in the form of abuse of power or official position to obtain illegal material benefits, is constantly growing,…
Descriptors: Integrity, Ethics, Military Service, Foreign Countries
Julius W. Moore II – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how ten student veterans persist after entering private, 4-year institutions of higher education during or following their military service. The study's conceptual framework, drawing from Vacchi's Model of Student Veteran Support (2011, 2013), employs a narrative approach to spotlight the…
Descriptors: Veterans Education, Private Colleges, Military Service, Intersectionality
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Andrea Christelle, Editor; Erin Lynch, Editor; André N. Porter; Committee on the Development of a Plan to Promote Defense Research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities Tribal Colleges and Universities Hispanic-Serving Institutions and Other Minority-Serving Institutions, Contributor; Board on Higher Education and Workforce, Contributor; Policy and Global Affairs, Contributor – National Academies Press, 2024
Engaging the full breadth of talent in the United States is an important component of growing and sustaining dominance in research and development (R&D) and supporting national security into the future. By 2030, one-fifth of Americans will be above age 65 and at or nearing retirement from the workforce. Estimates of race and ethnic demographic…
Descriptors: Minority Serving Institutions, STEM Education, STEM Careers, Military Service
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Elise Swanson – Grantee Submission, 2024
The National Center for Rural Education Research Networks (NCRERN) seeks to increase opportunity for rural students through the power of actionable data and evidence. NCRERN partners with networks of rural school districts to generate and evaluate strategies for improving student outcomes. For more information about NCRERN's work, see the…
Descriptors: Military Service, Rural Education, Rural Schools, Military Training
John Joseph Chacon – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how post 9/11 military veterans described their transitions from military service to postsecondary education in the southwestern United States. The problem statement was: It is not known how post 9/11 military veterans describe their transitions from military service to postsecondary…
Descriptors: Veterans, Military Service, Postsecondary Education, Veterans Education
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Jonathan Fuentes; Janice Hicks – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2024
Since fall 2019, Odessa College's dual credit program has grown by 67%. Texas' initiatives, around college, career, and military readiness (CCMR), certainly provided an impetus for growth in dual credit, but this tremendous level of growth points to a number of structural changes Odessa College made to its dual credit program. The article focuses…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Partnerships in Education, Program Improvement, College Readiness
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Gates, Trevor G.; Ross, Dyann; Bennett, Bindi – Adult Learning, 2023
Critical events in Leonard Matlovich's life depict a reluctant activist for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/gender diverse, and queer+ (LGBTQ+) equality. He served in the US military and subsequently came to personify the broad social challenges to the military's homophobic culture and recruitment practices. Matlovich's experience of a series…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Activism, Barriers, Social Bias
Jacqueline Ortiz – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Unfortunately, not all civilian volunteers fulfill their military contracts due to failing to meet basic combat training graduation requirements or medical issues. As the primary trainers, drill sergeants (DSs) affect the completion of basic combat training and serve as gatekeepers for civilian volunteer's completion paths. Although the DSs…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Military Personnel, Military Training, Role
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Bonnie M. Vest; Maximilian J. Brimmer; Laura A. Brady; Gregory G. Homish – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To describe how veterans feel about disclosing their military status on campus and impacts on engagement with social and health-related services. Participants: Thirty-one university student veterans who participated in a student veterans' health study. Participants self-identified as White and male (90%) with an average age of 29.5…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Veterans, Veterans Education, Military Service
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