%0 Journal Article
%T Preventing Student Veteran Attrition: What More Can We Do?
%A Jessica Yarab
%A Mari Alschuler
%J Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice
%@ 1541-4167
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1521025116646382
%X Student veterans face many challenges when transitioning to college. This two-phase study first examined their retention and persistence through the use of archival data at one Midwestern public university. Results indicated a 50% graduation rate, comparable to the national average and above that for nonveterans at the same university. The second, phenomenological study entailed interviewing degree-seeking student veterans about personal, administrative, or academic issues related to college success. Emerging themes included (a) transitioning to civilian life; (b) managing multiple identities; (c) attitudes about civilian peers, faculty, and staff; and (d) medical or psychiatric issues that may interfere with retention or persistence. Interviewees recommended the university might help student veterans succeed by offering a faculty and student orientation on military culture, increasing interdepartmental communication within student affairsĄŻ various offices, and expanding services provided by the campus veteranĄŻs resource center
%K student veterans
%K college retention
%K persistence
%K military culture
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1521025116646382