This manuscript focuses on student veterans' best option to start their post-high-school education: attending community colleges. It illustrates this point using the story of the author, a US Army combat veteran who began his career at a community college, and other veterans who also began their college careers at the community college. Using…

This article presents a national snapshot of GI Bill student enrollment through examination of a repository of data on veterans' education benefits usage, institutional practices to support veterans, and consumer advocacy information (e.g., complaints and caution flags). Through examination of records from 2217 two-year institutions enrolling…

Adult students in the community college are vividly characterized, together with the adjustments community colleges will have to make in order to cope with this increasing segment of the student body. (Editor)

Veterans' needs for special assistance point to a series of guidelines for developing a veterans' program on the community college campus. (Editor)