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This book is intended for everyone in higher education whether in
the classroom, student affairs, administration, admissions, health
services or faculty development who is, or expects to be teaching,
advising, or serving student veterans. "This book is the outcome of
a partnership between the Center for Teaching and Learning and the
office of Disabilities Services at the University of South Dakota
that led to the development of the Fides program whose goal was to
establish high-quality, evidence-based development opportunities
specifically designed to enable key university constituencies the
faculty, staff, and administration to understand their role in
providing extraordinary learning experiences for veterans. The
program was funded through a congressionally directed FIPSE grant.
Materials from Fides have been featured by prominent educational
organizations, and are being used by the National Center for PTSD,
colleges, universities, and boards of regents across the US."This
book provides the background and guidelines you need to leverage
the strengths that student veterans bring to your institution, to
ease the challenges they face in transitioning into higher
education, to facilitate their learning, and to ensure their
successful graduation.Student veterans bring many strengths to your
campus maturity, significant life experiences, and cross-cultural
awareness. They are highly motivated to serve others and value
education. Student veterans may however face significant
challenges. Student veterans have typically been out of high school
for some time, where they may have earned average grades. Many are
married with children and more than a few are single parents. They
are approximately 20% less likely than non-veterans to attain a
bachelor degree and slightly more likely to drop out of higher
education without attaining a degree of any sort. Deployments
extend their time to degree, and multiple deployments can
significantly delay graduation.The challenges associated with
transitioning from the military into higher education are
heightened when a student has a disability physical, psychological,
or emotional. Common disabilities that are emerging from Iraq and
Afghanistan include amputations, hearing loss, traumatic brain
injury, and post-traumatic stress disorder.To enable student
veterans to succeed, institutions need to develop holistic
initiatives to mediate student veterans transition and persistence,
and develop appropriate programs and services that recognize their
skills, family responsibilities, and distinct needs. This book
outlines best practices for student affairs; describes innovative
approaches to administrative services and support; suggests
streamlining policies and procedures to make the campus veteran
friendly; proposes ideas for academic programs; looks at the
implications for course structure and design; considers the
classroom environment; and explores how classroom policies impact
student veterans. One chapter examines the issue of student veteran
success specifically from the point of view of two-year
institutions. The authors stress the importance of collaborative
approaches across divisions and functions providing all
stakeholders on campus with a comprehensive view of how they can
support each to ensure the success of their student veterans."
This book is intended for everyone in higher education whether in
the classroom, student affairs, administration, admissions, health
services or faculty development who is, or expects to be teaching,
advising, or serving student veterans. "This book is the outcome of
a partnership between the Center for Teaching and Learning and the
office of Disabilities Services at the University of South Dakota
that led to the development of the Fides program whose goal was to
establish high-quality, evidence-based development opportunities
specifically designed to enable key university constituencies the
faculty, staff, and administration to understand their role in
providing extraordinary learning experiences for veterans. The
program was funded through a congressionally directed FIPSE grant.
Materials from Fides have been featured by prominent educational
organizations, and are being used by the National Center for PTSD,
colleges, universities, and boards of regents across the US."This
book provides the background and guidelines you need to leverage
the strengths that student veterans bring to your institution, to
ease the challenges they face in transitioning into higher
education, to facilitate their learning, and to ensure their
successful graduation.Student veterans bring many strengths to your
campus maturity, significant life experiences, and cross-cultural
awareness. They are highly motivated to serve others and value
education. Student veterans may however face significant
challenges. Student veterans have typically been out of high school
for some time, where they may have earned average grades. Many are
married with children and more than a few are single parents. They
are approximately 20% less likely than non-veterans to attain a
bachelor degree and slightly more likely to drop out of higher
education without attaining a degree of any sort. Deployments
extend their time to degree, and multiple deployments can
significantly delay graduation.The challenges associated with
transitioning from the military into higher education are
heightened when a student has a disability physical, psychological,
or emotional. Common disabilities that are emerging from Iraq and
Afghanistan include amputations, hearing loss, traumatic brain
injury, and post-traumatic stress disorder.To enable student
veterans to succeed, institutions need to develop holistic
initiatives to mediate student veterans transition and persistence,
and develop appropriate programs and services that recognize their
skills, family responsibilities, and distinct needs. This book
outlines best practices for student affairs; describes innovative
approaches to administrative services and support; suggests
streamlining policies and procedures to make the campus veteran
friendly; proposes ideas for academic programs; looks at the
implications for course structure and design; considers the
classroom environment; and explores how classroom policies impact
student veterans. One chapter examines the issue of student veteran
success specifically from the point of view of two-year
institutions. The authors stress the importance of collaborative
approaches across divisions and functions providing all
stakeholders on campus with a comprehensive view of how they can
support each to ensure the success of their student veterans."
Can the police reduce crime? In 1991, when the first Executive
Session on Policing concluded, the answer to that question was
generally described as being in the eye of the beholder. Based on
the scientific and practical knowledge available at the time, some
well-respected criminologists and police scholars concluded that
the police were not able to reduce crime. Promising evidence,
however, suggested that if the police changed their approach to
crime control and prevention, then they might be able to reduce
crime. This book outlines the changes in the nature of police crime
control conversations resulting from an unprecedented growth in
rigorous evaluation research on what works in police crime
prevention; examines what it means to be a leader within the
policing field, and advocates for reframing leadership through the
adoption of "learning organisations" to increase the capacity to
fight crime; describes "rightful policing," which looks at elements
of procedural justice in police encounters with the public as a way
to organise police work; advocates for democratic ideals within law
enforcement to combat the mindset that law enforcement officers are
at war with the people they serve; presents the ideas for what
police executives might do to alleviate the problems of race in
contemporary policing; examines the term "black-on-black" violence,
a simplistic and emotionally charged definition of urban violence
that can be problematic when used by political commentators,
politicians and police executives; summarises current understanding
of the effects of ongoing trauma on young children, how these
effects impair adolescent and young adult functioning, and the
possible implications of this for policing; and finally, describes
strategies police organisations could employ to more effectively
measure their performance.
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