Military Veteran Attending 2-Year Institutions

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Table of Contents

Introduction3

Montgomery County Community College4

Brief Overview of US Veteran Education Services7

Factors of Educational Progress9

The Development of Education in the United States before the war12

Higher education12

Origin of the GI Bill14

Provisions and cost16

University enrolment18

The importance of post-war veterans in the universities19

Conclusion20

References22

Introduction

A student veteran has more than one meaning, on one hand, it is a person who has expertise in a particular area, and on the other side is also referred especially to retired people in the armed forces and very especially people who are surviving soldiers of any conflict. Sometimes, the word veteran refers to retired service personnel too. However, any member of the armed forces who has been in combat or have served for a long time can be described as a veteran. Veterans, especially since the Vietnam War and other contemporary conflicts such as Iraq, Afghanistan, present a social problem for their respective societies regarding their reintegration into the society due to severe physical and psychological disabilities that these people acquire during conflicts. Most of these people join the armed forces at a very young age, and are therefore unable to complete higher education. When they return from war or conflicts and the authorities try to reintegrate them by finding them good and respectable jobs, it becomes a great problem because of their lack of education and exposure to higher education. Thus, they become a burden on the society. (Pekow, 2008)

Societies and governments are not prepared to effectively provide this group of people with an appropriate post-conflict treatment that allows them to continue their lives normally; they are considered as socially dead. A high percentage of veterans suffer from physical or psychological trauma and post-conflict period brings such seriousness to them that prevent them from finding the path to normalcy or happiness and resort to suicide as a solution to their problems. (Ross, 1969)

United States and the former Soviet Union countries are currently have the largest number of war veterans. In the United States, there are approximately 23 million veterans, and of the 30,000 suicides that take place in this country, about 6,000 are of war veterans. Suicide is growing as a pandemic in this group.

In this paper, we would carry out a research about the student veterans in the United States who decide to take up a 2 year graduation program. As already adverted, student veterans find it hard to return to normalcy, there are special course designed for these students. These courses focus on familiarizing the students with the college environment and the courses help them to successfully complete their “transition phase” from a military life to that of college life. Not only vocational courses are required by student veterans, but they also require some advice, counseling, and interaction with fellow veterans to socialize with them and return toward normalcy.

We would also delve into several other aspects pertaining to education student veterans, for example, the attitude and perceptions of staff and teachers toward this group of students, whether the schools ...