This book consists of a prologue and 25 chapters based on a series of presentations made at a conference in October, 2009 developed by the College Educators for Veterans Higher Education and held at the Service members Opportunity Colleges (SOC), Washington, DC 20005 The speakers addressed the difficulties that veterans sometimes encounter while seeking a college degree. The speakers are distinguished in higher education, higher education of veterans, or research in education. The book considers four broad topics, giving readers an: introduction to some higher education problems of veterans;...

This book reviews information about the challenges that veterans face when they are in college. Some of this information is little known. As all of the information is reviewed, many ways are discussed about how higher education has helped veterans with these challenges. While acknowledging the progress in veterans education over the past three years, the book also calls attention to some difficulties of veterans in college that some professors and college administrators might not know about but can help eliminate. After reviewing these challenges in detail, solutions to these challenges are...