PAVE Partner Campus Purdue Named One of America’s Best Colleges for Veterans

Purdue University Peer Advisor Stephanie Jo Millette

PAVE Partner Campus Purdue University has been named one of the best colleges in the country for military veterans by College Consensus. “I was really happy to see how they come up with their rankings,” said Jamie Richards, director of the Purdue Veterans Success Center. “And then seeing that a lot of our peer institutions in […]

PAVE at Johnson County Community College Connecting Student Veterans

Student veterans at Johnson County Community College

Johnson County Community College is dedicated to supporting its military and veteran students, and strive to provide a learning environment that fosters their academic and personal growth. JCCC provides to support its military-affiliated students with programs such as Peer Advisers for Veteran Education (PAVE): This peer-support system connects incoming student-veterans with veterans already on campus who can […]

State grant helps expand UO Student Veterans Center services

University of Oregon student veterans at graduation

A grant awarded to the University of Oregon’s Student Veterans Center by the Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs will help the center expand its programs and resources. The grant also expands the Peer Advising Veterans Education program, which matches new veteran students on campus with experienced UO peers. Trent Goodman served in the Marine Corps as […]

Program Paves Way for Student Veterans Transitioning to Campus Life

UT Dallas Peer Advisor Carmen Halcomb meeting with a student veteran

PAVE at University of Texas-Dallas was highlighted in this article on the UTD website. “The PAVE program has given UT Dallas student veterans another resource for navigating campus life with peer support,” said Lisa Adams, director of the MVC. “Our peer advisors have firsthand experience with transitioning from the military and beginning a degree program at […]

Within Reach

Michelle Kees, PhD

Learn about how PAVE, M-SPAN, and the University of Michigan Depression Center and Department of Psychiatry’s other outreach programs are finding ways to treat veterans, students, and others where they are, changing the lives of people who may not otherwise receive mental health treatment. (From Medicine at Michigan) Read More

Chris Burd: From Self-Centered to Selfless

UW Tacoma student veteran Chris Burd

UW Tacoma student veteran Chris Burd made the most of a second chance at a career in the military. Burd has kept himself busy while on campus. He’s currently interning at the Geneva Foundation, a non-profit that funds research into military health care. Burd works at UW Tacoma’s Veteran and Military Resource Center (VMRC) and […]

Navy vet finds a new adventure as a student at the UO

Caitlyn Sweat, Peer Advisor at University of Oregon

Before University of Oregon​ student vet Caitlyn Sweat was a Peer Advisor, she had a Peer Advisor who regularly reached out to her. Although she didn’t often reply to those emails and text messages, she recalls a sense of community. Now, as a Peer Advisor assigned to nine student veterans that she reaches out to […]

Sophomore helps fellow veterans as a peer advisor, SGA senator

Last fall, the Student Veterans Organization collected supplies for victims of Hurricane Harvey. Marine Michael Bearth helped unload three pallets of water bottles to send to Houston.

U.S. Marine Michael Bearth is a mechanical engineering major with a passion for helping his fellow veterans. Bearth is a member of the Student Veterans Organization (SVO), a Peer Advisor for the Wichita State Peer Advisors for Veteran Education (PAVE) program, and is currently holding the position of the veteran senator in the Student Government […]