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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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    Dishonorably Discharged Veterans

    Some veterans and military professionals might balk at including dishonorably discharged veterans in their student veteran population, in the rare instance when these students may need support on campus. Consider that not all dishonorable discharges are for nefarious offenses, and these may be academically qualified individuals. Not legally entitled to the veteran label or benefits, these very rare students still have a military socialization that may be prominent in their approach to life and require accommodation. The campus environment may affect them in a manner similar to all other current and former military students on campus. For these reasons, including dishonorably discharged veterans in their student veteran populations is something that institutions of higher learning should allow for should the circumstance arise.

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 The authors would like to thank Ernest T. Pascarella and Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas for their thoughtful review and insightful feedback on early drafts of this chapter.

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Vacchi, D.T., Berger, J.B. (2014). Student Veterans in Higher Education. In: Paulsen, M. (eds) Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8005-6_3

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