Scholars in Camo: Resiliency

This Veterans Curriculum is purposefully designed to increase the likelihood of retention and graduation of learners in college settings by establishing an academic and social framework, which is intended to improve concentration, memory, problem solving, and learning, while minimizing social isolation. Specific focus is to provide veterans, emerging from potentially traumatic military experience, with academic transition skills, critical thinking, and coping skills that foster resiliency, the ability to bounce back from adversity, and minimize stigmatization of traditional psychological interventions. The curriculum is composed of three content areas, resiliency, learning-teaching, and leadership which emerged as a result of best practices research, surveys and interactions with veterans regarding the ideal curriculum for veterans reentering the civilian and academic world.