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Military Service Shapes Work of National University System Vice Chancellor, The Need for A Military Student Assembly at USC, Two West Virginia Veterans Who Continue to Work in Higher Education
HigherEdMilitary
November 22, 2021
How One Adult-Serving University Leader Tackles DE&I Through Lived Experience—and A Board Level Commitment“…Tom Stewart was separated from his parents, spent time in foster care and joined the military to escape his troubled community. But military service and higher education helped him transcend the cycle of poverty and build a better life. Today, as a vice chancellor with the National University System, Dr. Stewart leads a comprehensive system-wide initiative on social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion known as S-JEDI to help support underrepresented working adult learners.”
It Is Time for USC to Establish A Military Student Assembly
“USC’s latest report indicates that the school has about 192 undergraduate students and over 850 graduate students who are veterans, on active duty or serving as national guardsmen or reservists. […] However, the school’s military sectors are disconnected. Air Force ROTC rarely interacts with Army ROTC unless cadets happen to pass one another on Cromwell Field. Most ROTC cadets hardly ever meet a veteran in their time at USC.”
Military Service Leads To Courage For Education
Dr. George Williams, now an assistant professor of English at Concord University and an on-campus veterans advocate, served in the U.S. Navy for nine years. Steven Kennedy served in the U.S. Army for four years of active duty and three years in the reserves. Both Williams and Kennedy demonstrate veteran educational success in higher education and continue to work, and serve others, in higher education.
