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How Barriers Become Opportunites: Retaining Student-Veterans at the Community College
Type of Presentation
Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)
Session Abstract
This investigation examines the experiences of student-veterans attending a community college. Barrier-busting strategies and tips for transformation will be discussed.
Target Audience
College faculty, disability services coordinators, Adult Education specialists, veteran support and student services personnel, curriculum development members, and community college staff
Learning Outcomes
Session participants will be able to predict the potential institutional, situational, and dispositional barriers of student-veterans attending public colleges and identify strategies to ameliorate the impact. Participants will also gain an understanding of which learning theories are able to account for these obstacles and opportunities for increasing student-veteran retention.
Session Description
More than 500,000 undergradute students are veterans on college campuses, in part due to the scaling down of both Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedon (OEF). Many have entered into the adult learning community following a disorienting dilemma and have found that there is a significant discrepancy between their goals and present levels of performance; their motivation is at its peak and barriers can be overwhelming. We are at a critical tipping point with this population of students and must make every effort to highlight and promote the student services that are free and available to help enhance their development.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Thursday November 7
Primary Presenter
Lisa Macaruso, Community College of Rhode Island
Work Title
Coordinator of Disability Services for Students
Additional Presenters: Enters In Order.
Ms. Kathi Moore, CCRI
Work Title
Testing Coordinator