Conference Session

Understanding the Military Veteran's Human Resource Needs - Transition from Military Service to the Engineering Profession

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony W Dean, Old Dominion University; Connor Schwalm, Old Dominion University; Patrick Sean Heaney, Old Dominion University; Linda Vahala, Old Dominion University; Yuzhong Shen, Old Dominion University; Jennifer Grimsley Michaeli P.E., Old Dominion University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Military and Veterans Constituent Committee

, research experiences with faculty and outside laboratories, professionaldevelopment activities, academic support, social integration, and mentoring.15 As adult learnersmake up an increasing portion of enrollment at universities, understanding how to increase theperformance and retention of this subpopulation is a significant issue facing institutions of highereducation. Research on student retention has started to address the unique characteristics andchallenges of adult learners, but there are still open questions about the effectiveness of programproposals.14, 16 There has been significant research related to retention of other minority groups,which may be instructive to future research and program proposals to address adult learnerretention.15