Abstract
Military veterans are a diverse and important subpopulation of students on college and university campuses. The extant literature on student veterans consists of a few WWII era studies of student veteran success, GI Bill utilization, and a nascent body of contemporary scholarly articles about student veterans. Historically, there is a dearth of scholarship on student veterans or veterans’ experiences in higher education. To begin filling the substantial gaps in knowledge about student veterans, this chapter provides a historical overview of veterans in higher education, a conceptual definition of student veteran, a demographic profile of this subpopulation, an assessment of student veteran success in higher education, a conceptual model for understanding the student veteran experience in higher education, and recommendations for future research. The comprehensive synthesis of literature covered in this chapter is designed to generate further study of student veterans as the basis for future research and improved policy and practice related to the experience of veterans in higher education.
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