October 2021 Featured Campus: Western Oregon University

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Western Oregon University is this month’s Featured Campus! “The PAVE Team at WOU has come back strong! Most of the team members are new to PAVE, so they are re-building from the ground up, but with a great energy. Aside from the standard student veteran welcome events, they held a Super Smash Bros. Tournament during Welcome […]

Paving the Way to a Degree for Student Veterans

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The University of Nevada – Las Vegas published an article about how its PAVE program partners with the School of Social Work at the school. The article focuses on Rayshawn Williams, a social work graduate student and PAVE Team Leader: “We assist them with finding resources, making them feel comfortable and trying to restore that […]

September 2021 Featured Campus: Michigan State University

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Michigan State University is this month’s Featured Campus! “Michigan State University is off to a great start this term. They have recruited three new Peer Advisors, held a team meeting, and hosted a welcome back picnic. In addition to that, their Team Leader, Casey Mossholder, created a PAVE newsletter that went out to all the student veterans. MSU […]

3 New Partner Campuses launching PAVE this fall

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The PAVE National Team is excited to welcome 3 new institutions into its Partner Campus Network: Grand Rapids Community College (Grand Rapids, MI), University of Rhode Island (Kingston, RI), and Wayne State University (Detroit, MI). These 3 schools are launching the program on their campuses this fall and join 42 other Partner Campuses nationwide operating […]

April 2021 Team Leader of the Month: Gerardo Ruiz, Johnson County Community College

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From Kena Zumalt, Veteran & Military Student Services Program Director at JCCC: “Adapt and overcome is a Marine Corps ethos. Gerardo Ruiz, Veteran Services Assistant and Marine Corps veteran, brings that ethic to work every day. He is a part-time regular staff member and full-time student at KU who always goes the extra mile. When […]

PAVE Expanding to 19 Additional Partner Campuses This Fall!

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The PAVE National Team is thrilled to welcome 19 new Partner Campuses to the program this fall! We are grateful for the grants given by the May & Stanley Smith Charitable Trust and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation that allow us to expand to these additional schools:     California State University, Chico California State […]