Charlie, Mike, Victor: Student Veterans' Loss of Purpose

Boettcher, Michelle L.

doi:10.21061/jvs.28

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“…Many researchers have identified the transition from military service to higher education as one of the major obstacles to degree attainment and have identified specific ways in which veterans' transition to higher education differs from traditional students' transition along several axes (Boettcher, 2017;DiRamio, Ackerman, & Mitchell, 2008;DiRamio & Jarvis, 2011;McBain, Kim, Cook, & Snead, 2012;Olsen, Badger, & McCuddy, 2014;Radford, 2009;Ryan, Carlstrom, Hughey, & Harris, 2011;Schiavone & Gentry, 2014;Vacchi & Berger, 2014;Wheeler, 2012). For example, veterans differ in terms of the reason for their transition to higher education.…”

Section: Transitions To Higher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Student Veterans and the Transition to Higher Education: Integrating Existing Literatures

Jenner¹

2017

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To address concerns about student veterans, including lagging BA attainment and troubling drop-out rates, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners would benefit from a more in-depth understanding of the processes student veterans undergo as they transition out of the military and into higher education. This paper synthesizes the literature related to the transition processes and post-secondary experiences of student veterans, nontraditional students, first-generation students, and under-represented minority students in order to identify points of convergence and divergence. These disparate literatures all recognize that the transition to higher education provides additional challenges, relative to the challenges faced by traditional students; however, over the past several decades a growing body of literature points to co-identity organizations-organizations that are centered around one aspect of a student's identity-as one factor that has potential to ease adjustment to higher education. By integrating existing research focused on the groups of students noted above with the burgeoning literature on student veterans, future researchers can to conduct more informed research and policy-makers and administrators can be empowered to create more effective policies and programs.

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Section: Transitions To Higher Educationmentioning

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Student Veterans and the Transition to Higher Education: Integrating Existing Literatures

Jenner¹

2017

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“…By utilizing NVivo's word frequency query search, three topics emanate from the theme of student veterans as observed in JVS articles. They are student veteran transition experiences from military to civilian and becoming student veterans (Andrewartha & Harvey, 2019;Bodrog et al, 2018;Boettcher et al, 2017;Jenner, 2017;McMenamin, 2016;Mendez et al, 2018;Petri et al, 2016;Phillips, 2016;Pollak et al, 2019;Young, 2017), conditions surrounding student veteran academic success (Bagby et al, 2019;Blackwell-Starnes, 2018;Cipher et al, 2018;Flatt & Rhodes, 2019;Garrity, 2017;Hembrough, 2017;Hembrough et al, 2018;Spencer, 2016), and issues surrounding accommodations needed by student veterans (Flink, 2017;Kranke et al, 2017;Morris et al, 2019;Wild & Mahapatra, 2018).…”

Section: Themes From Jvs Articlesmentioning

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The State of Research in Veterans Studies: A Systematic Literature Review

Lira¹,

Chandrasekar

2020

JVS

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New areas of research on veterans are emerging as the field of veterans studies develops and grows. Yet gaps remain in interdisciplinary research efforts on veterans. The research available across disciplines is still too fragmented to coalesce into a full-fledged field of veteran studies, as other categorical, area, and identity fields of study have done so. By surveying research literature of multiple disciplines used in the curricula of higher education-level veteran study programs, this article presents a thematic and integrative review of the state of research contributing to the growing field of veterans studies. Discussion follows about research emerging from within contributing disciplines, the themes across disciplines, and comments on the need for further research as the field of veterans studies continues to mature.

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