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An important resource for college educators and veterans!! Mar 17, 2010
By D. Gennaro
This book is a much needed and valuable resource for veterans as well as college administrators and professors. As a university professor (Univ. of Southern Indiana), I try to be alert to the somewhat unique needs of veterans -- this book is very helpful in that regard. Faculty not only have veterans in their classes but also serve as department advisors for veterans majoring in a particular discipline. Sadly, my sense is that far too few administrators and professors are properly informed about or sensitive to returning veterans, despite passage of the recent 2008 GI Bill. This book covers such key topics as financial aid, transfer credits, educational programs, classroom climate, and the health care of veterans. There is also some valuable historical information in this book, such as how veterans have fared upon returning from previous wars and/or military service (e.g. Vietnam, World War II). The authors do a wonderful job of combining anecdotal evidence of the problems that veterans encounter with very detailed survey results. Most college professors and administrators are not veterans, but they need to be informed about the particular challenges facing veterans. There is also the need for some professors to recognize how some veterans might feel upon hearing anti-war and anti-military sentiment expressed both in and out of the classroom. Veterans encounter some problems not encountered by non-veterans, which contributes to the fact that fewer veterans obtain a college education than ideally should (which is surely undesirable result). Much of this book is thus devoted to one chapter each on nine different problems facing veterans and how each problem might be eliminated.
This book also contains various useful tables (such as "A Bill of Educational Rights for Veterans" and "Veterans Organizations") and interesting questionnaires which can be used at any college institution (such as in the appendices). There is much practical material in this book for those willing and able to address this issue on any college campus. This book is packed with valuable statistical data. Finally, there is also an excellent list of references at the end of the book.
This is a must read for anyone in academia interested in veterans' issues and in providing support for our veterans.
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