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As more colleges and universities adopt CBE programs, check out the benefits of military-focused CBE programs and their importance in the military community. 

Learn more about SVA's NATCON and some of the key takeaways from this year's conference. 

In honor of CCME 2025's theme "Acceleration Through Collaboration" we have compiled a list of articles that aim to help military-affiliated professionals break down silos and work across departments and teams to accelerate military-inclusive programming in higher education.

Facilitating academic persistence until graduation requires implementing differing support methods for military-affiliated students than traditional student supports. Does your campus offer these support methods?

For higher education leaders, faculty, and staff, taking intentional action to ensure programs align with real-world needs is crucial in helping student veterans refine and lean into their military skills.

LeNaya Hezel discussed why higher education is a great career option for veterans and the military-affiliated community.

Five action items to implement, continue, or resestablish on your campus for transitioning service members.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Institutions should look for high-demand careers in their community and consider how their campus can provide innovative career opportunities for their student veterans.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

The growing population of women veterans in higher education calls attention to their unique needs and challenges on college and university campuses.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Professor Rosemarie Dombrowski explains how poetry can shape military inclusivity on any college campus.

Get an understanding of student, staff, and faculty attitudes about mental health at your university and start addressing mental health.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Military inclusive initiatives have continued to boom across industries over the last decade, and higher education is no exception. Launching January 2024, HigherEdMilitary will host a best practices series in advocating for continued development and investment in military inclusive higher education. 

If you are considering starting your own campus initiatives, but have been on the fence, follow your heart.

ISSUED isn’t merely a literary journal. It is a space for both the practice of narrative medicine with veterans and the products of narrative medicine by veterans. 

Poetry/poetic medicine course could be the missing prescription for veterans in higher education.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

The concept of a 'whole university community' supports mental health across the entire university to include students, faculty, staff, and leaders.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Learn how Villanova University honors and tells the story of veteran alumni. 

Learn about some popular resources for student veterans and mental health and some ideas to get your campus connected to outside resources. 

Military-affiliated students often differ greatly from their civilian peers, but finding ways to close this gap can help them better integrate with campus life.

Existing scholarship does not analyze the intersection of Blackness and veteran identity, and that value won't be realized until Black veterans share their stories.

A variety of discussion topics in the classroom may be triggering for veterans. Instructors can consider these several strategies to alleviate stressful and wounding scenarios for veterans in the classroom. 

Challenging higher education institutions to shift perspectives remains a critical problem, one that has broad impacts on veteran scholars and student veterans.

Instructors should consider that veterans come from all social strata, from disparate backgrounds, and have unique sets of military experiences from which they draw their own set of expectations.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

What are the top five majors student veterans and military learners are pursuing on your campus? Do they match national trends?

Suzane Bricker shares some insights from her book that deal specifically with preventing self-isolation and dispelling myths of military learners.

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, let us not allow another month to pass by without careful thought and consideration about how we can provide more supportive learning environments for women student veterans. 

What is veteran studies and why is it important? See how veterans studies as an academic discipline is moving higher education and policy forward for military-affiliated communities.

Veterans can carry expectations from their time in the service with them wherever they go, including their classrooms. High expectations, quality of relationships between class members, and classroom bonding all play a role in creating a flourishing learning environment for veterans.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Announcing the members of the HigherEdMilitary Advisory Council.

There are several types of peer networks that can be established for student veterans and military-affiliated students on campus. Does your campus have these five types of peer networks?

Struggling with how to turn institutional assessment into opportunities that will benefit your office or center? Start with these steps to make assessment easier and more useful.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Institutions must have effective communication channels for student veterans at the leadership, financial, and faculty levels.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Creating ways to make Reserve and National Guard students feel a part of the campus community, while also allowing them to serve the country, is of utmost importance.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Since not all individuals desire traditional educational pathways, higher ed should place more emphasis on recruiting service members into certificate programs and preparation courses. 

Offering comprehensive and accessible mental health services is critical for military-affiliated students' success. 

No Student Veterans of America (SVA) chapter on your campus? SVA helps many military-affiliated individuals come together on campuses across the country. Here's what you need to know.

To better support this population, leadership can focus on deployment policies, drill obligation policies, and education support policies.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

How can your institution shatter national averages for retaining student veterans? Learn from an institution that is leading the way. 

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military. 

While the solution to reducing academic burnout is not one-size-fits-all, these ideas can serve as a reminder for all of us in higher education as we begin another school year. How do you reduce the opportunity for burnout to take control of your studies and life?

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Many interconnected activities are essential to increasing veteran degree attainment. University departments must work together for military-affiliated student success.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

The delivery of education has changed and fluctuated over the past few years. Some campuses are fully online, others are completely back in-person. It is important to discuss and understand the challenges of how this affects the military-affiliated community.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Physical fitness matters to the military-affiliated community. Higher education institutions should make focused efforts to promote physical activities on and off campus that benefit the well-being of military-affiliated students.

When most members of society visualize a military service member, they envision a tall, muscular Caucasian male with a crew cut in a highly pressed uniform wearing highly shined dress shoes. While it is true that most of the armed forces are composed of this demographic, the number of racial minorities and females serving has been consistently rising. Now is the time for institutions to include ideas for recruiting the following veteran cohorts: females, racial minorities, and previous enlisted members. Here are three reasons why.

How can higher education faculty support student veterans with disabilities? What should higher education faculty avoid doing when discussing accommodations with student veterans? Dr. Sarita Pettus-Wakefield shares her advice and experience.

When it comes to understanding service-connected hearing loss and tinnitus, do you know the 'Top Ten Things Student Veterans Would Like Faculty to Know'? Find out in this article.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Improving VA work-study provides the opportunity to support student veterans "to, through, and beyond" their time in higher education. In achieving that goal, our institutions and our nation, as a whole. will reap the benefits as well.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

When student veterans utilizing the GI Bill® have access to federally funded work-study positions, the easy solution is to simply allow the student veteran occupying a work-study position to support the work of the campus student veteran center. This often translates to paperwork filing, phone answering, and a minimum wage paycheck at the end of the day. These positions lack the responsibility and engagement required for true career readiness.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Last month after the Association of Veterans Education Certifying Officials (AVECO) conference, HigherEdMilitary writer and engagement coordinator Jill Hinton Wolfe sat down with AVECO President Andrea Wheeler to learn more about her journey and her advice for new SCOs (School Certifying Officials).

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

In dedicated efforts to increase veteran enrollment in, and graduation from, the bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) program at The College of St. Scholastica (CSS) the veteran cohort model has been the most significant in promoting student success. The BSN program now has a 96 percent graduation rate. Pearson and White advocate that the same cohort model could be implemented in other degree programs.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Mike Brown M.S., from Villanova University and former student veteran, shares how we can create a sense of belonging, or community, on campus where veterans not only show up but want to be there.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

In a Higher Ed Careers interview from HigherEdJobs, Andrew Hibel spoke with Dr. Abby Kinch, the vice president of programs and services at Student Veterans of America. She shares her expertise on serving student veterans, honoring Military Appreciation Month on campus, and how larger diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives ultimately benefit student veterans.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Women are joining the military in larger and larger numbers. So, when these women show up on our college campuses, we have to find ways to better serve their unique needs.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

This article addresses misconceptions regarding combat experience, military trauma, and the mission and purpose of the military that are present in higher education.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

Many higher education institutions want to be veteran friendly, but debates circulate on what being veteran friendly entails. David Vacchi encourages campuses to revisit veteran friendliness goals and criteria.

Recent news and updates pertaining to higher education and the military.

As more women veterans and service members enroll in higher education, it is imperative that campuses provide essential support, recognition, and necessary services.

When you hear that somebody is a veteran, what comes to mind? What does the term "veteran" really mean? What does this status entail? Within the classification of "veteran," there are many layers that make this a unique group with varying backgrounds and experiences.

Belonging is an important factor for any new college student's identity, but it is especially important for student veterans.

This recent study compares the perceptions of student veterans attending campus orientation sessions with, and without, veteran focused sessions.

This study highlights how the complexity of identity can complicate our understanding and support of female student veterans on campus.

A qualitative study on identity and negotiation of identity for community college student veterans who have been in combat.

With ongoing efforts to increase veteran enrollment at highly selective colleges, here's a breakdown of the number of student veterans per institution in 2020.

Student veterans are often navigating new lives as civilians and differ from traditional students in age and maturity. It is imperative that faculty encourage student veterans’ peer-group interactions.

Student veterans often bring multiple assets to writing classrooms. Read some of the special considerations instructors should note when working with student veterans.

Student veterans at a small midwestern community college collaborated to develop engaging programs and resources for veterans transitioning from soldier to student. The veteran group worked with college administration, veteran organizations, and community partners to develop a Veterans Resource Center (VRC) on campus.

What Arizona State University is doing to help veterans and elite athletes adjust to civilian life. 

This research study identifies student veterans' perceptions of the strengths they can bring to a university and how their strengths affect academic performance.