The Kept-Up Academic Librarian: Helping War Veterans Transition To The Classroom

June 13, 2012

Helping War Veterans Transition To The Classroom

At Sierra Community College, about an hour from Sacramento in Rocklin, Calif., there are hundreds of new kinds of students mixed in with the 18-year-olds fresh out of high school. Like James Reimers, who just turned 25. He was running patrols in Baghdad when many of his classmates were in the fifth grade. Veterans started flooding college campuses at the end of World War II. Three years ago, Congress expanded the program for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Since then, the Department of Veterans Affairs says more than 600,000 of them have gone to schools on the GI Bill. Read more at:
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/11/154432456/program-teaches-vets-how-to-survive-the-classroom

Jun 13, 2012 1:44:00 AM | Students

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