Amber Fluck- Student Veteran Guidebook

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.

Williams 7

I don't really have much of an update for this week. The implementation and analysis of my project is completed, so now I'm ready to go back to my proposal and change it into the final form that will be handed in. I plan to work on this part of the project this week.

Gueguen Week 7 (cont.)

After discussing it further with The Slate staff, we came to the decision that the story will run in next week's issue. This will give me more time to get a more complete story. I will still plan to have the story and video ready for the web this week.

Gueguen Week 7

I will finish the second story of my project this week. I've already had an interview with coach Maciejewski, and I am going to try to interview some of the players before practice today. I am going to publish a short version the story in The Slate tomorrow, then I will work on putting the rest of it and the video together tomorrow and Wednesday. I want to have the story posted to the website by the end of the week.

Barnett - week 6

I changed the format of my survey so that people's answers will be given on a number scale. I've also added a lot of questions to get a more thorough look at the student's opinions. I still need to have you read over both versions of the story and approve my survey so I can then get approval from the campus people. I'm going to email all three to you right now and hopefully I'll be able to send them all to the student research people this week so I can get approval and get on with the actual surveying. In the mean time, I also need to email one of the stories, probably the more optimistic one, to the Slate editor so she can publish it, as well as begin designing the flyer.

Sharp-Week 5

I sent out a survey threw various mediums and am hoping to have a good turnout. The survey asks people about their various experiences during their freshman year, from how easy the transition was to what helped them the most. I hope to gains some conclusion about what is the most trouble and what people think would benefit freshman the most. I started created a blog for freshman to follow, I am using word press for this. My next step is creating the facebook page.

Ponterio- Week 6

This week has been a slow week, but I have made some progress on the program for the Nursing home and learned that I will be putting on a series of 3 programs in 4 hours. Each is expected to be about twenty minutes with time for questions. This changes my initial plan to have 30-45 minute programs. I will still write it that way and then decide what is most significant to keep. I also discussed the limitations of allowing petting of the animals with the client and the possibility of bringing product along to further demonstrate the usefulness of the animals.