Help for disabled student vets
Maintaining success in college is a full-time job, and for disabled student veterans — many of whom have just recently returned from combat and who still are learning to deal with the challenges presented by their disabilities — even regular academic and social hurdles can seem insurmountable.
Fortunately, more colleges and universities are instituting programs to stack the odds for success in vets’ favor. In February, the Web site Inside Higher Ed reported on three recent initiatives aimed at helping disabled vets. These programs range from a very targeted outreach at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf to more general disabled veterans programs at the University of Idaho and Michigan State University.
Joni Kirk, associate director of media relations at the University of Idaho, has written an informative article for the education magazine University Business about the growing need for — and current shortage of — education programs for disabled veterans. With the number of disabled veterans in America currently at more than 2.9 million, reaching out to this group could be big business for colleges and universities. More important, though, such outreach is the right thing to do.
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March 22nd, 2009 at 11:35 am
This is a great article about disabled Veterans which I feel we tend to overlook a lot of times. An article written from a professional in the education field speaking about the need for more benefits for disabled Vets got my attention because someone in the education field sees it first hand whats out there and whats not out there for these Vets.
Hopefully in the near future articles such as this can help open new doors to more benefits for disabled Vets looking to go to school.