Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Military Veterans, Culture and Perspective in College (Research Study)

As college students there are some benefits and challenges experienced by military students that may not be faced by everyone. Understanding some of those challenges and benefits does help us to think about the best ways to help veterans become successful so they can continue to serve their nation, its underlining principles and its people. They have strengths that often far exceed other types of students and we can enhance them.

(As a side note: A fully developed person does have multiple skills and some of those skills are fostereed in the military. Strength and intelligence, power and mercy, diligence with purpose, so on and so forth. One would need to be challenged to understand them at a deeper level.)

Transforming the "average" student into an exceptional societal contributor is a part of the next step in human capital development (not fully developed in our market and sometimes opposed). Average students, military students, and those who want to advance their skills to become contributors should be able to find quality schools that understand their needs.

Helping military students see themselves as future leaders by drawing on their existing strengths and experiences is helpful.

Some of the things I think of off the top of my head are ways to better socialized and connect the worlds of academia and military student perspective (see below) as well as offering activities that help draw military students (and veterans) into the coursework and examples.

Business and military leadership does share some similarities at their root.

Key findings from the Study (Benbow, et. al, 2024):

-Transfers and commuter students were similar with other students.

-More likely to be first generation college students and have cognitive, mobility and/or sensor impairments.

-Lower high school grades but higher first-year college grades.

-Decreased sense of belonging

-Less financial stress than other students.

-Less satisfied than non-miliary students.


 A Quantitative Comparison of Student Service Members/ Veterans and Non-Military Students: Undergraduate Characteristics and Perspectives. 

Benbow, et. al. (Sept. 2024) A Quantitative Comparison of Student Service Members/ Veterans and Non-Military Students: Undergraduate Characteristics and Perspectives. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11536329/

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