Theses and Dissertations

Date of Award

2010

Document Type

Dissertation - NSU Access Only

Degree Name

Doctor of Education (EdD)

Department

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice

Advisor

Robert Hill

Committee Member

Victor H. Schumacher

Committee Member

Dana Scott Mills

Keywords

Armed Forces, Higher Education, Veterans, Veterans Education

Abstract

This qualitative applied dissertation was designed to document the responses of college leaders to the unique challenges faced by student veterans as they attempted to access their educational benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Using a 12-question instrument developed by the ACE, the 5 leaders of a multicampus community college in south Florida were interviewed, and their responses were coded and linked to the following research questions: 1. How has the new GI Bill affected the college? 2. How can the college adapt to the Post-9/11 GI Bill-era challenges? 3. What are the expectations for the future?

An analysis of the transcribed responses, the data in the study, yielded recommendations that could benefit student veterans at the college that was the setting for the study and at other institutions of higher learning as well.

It was recommended that the interview questions be converted to a checklist for the college and that the college should establish a 1-stop-shop veterans' affairs office on each campus, redesign and streamline the veterans' information web pages, and have a link to them on the college website's home page. It was also recommended that the Florida statutes be amended to require including data about veterans and military personnel in the mandated equity report compiled by the colleges in the State College System.

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