Veterans in Higher Education: When Johnny and Jane Come Marching to
Campus - ASHE Higher Education Report, Volume 37, Number 3
Book description
It's estimated that, in the coming decade, as many as 2 million
students with military experience will take advantage of their education
benefits and attend institutions in all sectors of higher education.
This monograph provides useful information about students with military
experience who attending college by blending the theoretical, practical
and empirical.
The authors assemble some of the best-known theories and research in
the literature of the field to provide starting points from which to
investigate the phenomenon of today's veteran attending college. Other
frameworks and theories, particularly from the literature on college
student development, from recognizable names such as Baxter Magolda,
Braxton, Chickering, Schlossberg, and Tinto, are used--sometimes
directly in their own words. New issues to our generation, such as the
unique subpopulation of women veterans and the challenges they face,
are explored.
This volume equips higher education professional with a fundamental
understanding of the issues faced by the student veteran population
and aims to enable them in their roles of providing 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-Bass series
ASHE Higher Education Report
. Each monograph in the series is the definitive analysis of a
tough higher education problem, based on thorough research of
pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are
identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are
then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing
critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.
