2012

With the advent of the new Post-9/11 G.I. Bill, student veterans are becoming increasingly present on college campuses across the nation. Currently, there are over 660,000 veterans within the United States attending postsecondary educational opportunities with 329,000 of those utilizing their educational benefits (National Center for Educational Statistics 2011; Radford, 2010). With these numbers, almost 4% of U.S. undergraduate students are veterans (Radford, 2010), with 38% of the veterans utilizing their veterans’ educational benefits. It is given that there could be many more veterans on college campuses since the report does not include benefits-ineligible veterans or those veterans who are not utilizing their benefits.