Meeting with administrators has proved both enlightening and frustrating for me this past week or so. My trip to Rutgers really opened my eyes as to what a good "veterans services" program looked like, so when I came back to Ship last week, I was feeling pretty disillusioned about what we offer here at Ship.
I started really nailing down questions for administrators last week and have met or spoken with four or five offices, including the Registrar, University Housing, Financial Aid, Admissions and Student Accounts. Most seemed more than willing to answer my questions, and those ones really impressed me with the amount of support they provide student veterans/military students. It changed my perspective on how much our campus community does to be military supportive.
Other offices just reconfirmed my earlier suspicion that veterans are not in any way a priority. That isn't at all helpful to student veterans already struggling with readjustment issues. I hope this changes in the future.
I have two meeting scheduled this week, with Disability Services and Student Accounts. The contact person for Etter has yet to get back to me, and I'm currently working out my finalized questions for the University Counseling center, though my main contact is out of the office until next week.
My last issue is that the only desktop publishing program I have access to is the one here at the Mac lab in Rowland, but since I live so far away, it's hard to find the time to use it. I have been considering buying inDesign, but it's really expensive.
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