Female Veterans on Campuses Can Be Hard to Spot, and to Help

Autor/in	Sander, Libby
Titel	Female Veterans on Campuses Can Be Hard to Spot, and to Help
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, (2012) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Females; Foreign Countries; Campuses; Social Support Groups; Veterans; College Students; Gender Differences; Military Personnel; School Personnel; Iraq + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Ausland; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Kriegsteilnehmer; Veteran; Collegestudent; Geschlechterkonflikt; Schulpersonal; Irak
Abstract	As colleges add services for the growing number of student veterans, they find that many women in that population seem reluctant to participate. On many campuses, officials find that only a sprinkling of women take part in programs and services designed to support veterans. The low turnout appears to be at odds with the number of female veterans in college. Nearly one in five veterans who have used the new GI Bill at a two- or four-year college is a woman, according to an analysis of 250,000 veterans by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Women's apparent reluctance to take part, say campus officials, presents a dilemma for institutions still figuring out how best to help all veterans. But female veterans, colleges are learning, often face different challenges than men. With these concerns, many colleges are seeking to connect female veterans with resources to assist them. Colleges are forming all-female support groups, hiring women to work in veterans offices, and trying to start conversations by showing films like "Lioness," about the first women to fight in direct ground combat, in Iraq. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10