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- Tom Hayes
- US Marine. Member of Fort Lewis College Professional Associates, Durango, Colorado. Heads the Veterans Relations Committee. Professionally, semi-retired strategic marketing, business effectiveness Mentor, Adviser and Coach. Current focus is on developing and implementing interactive online marketing strategies, all geared to achieving and maintaining competitive advantage. My client work deals with sole-practitioner and professional service business development, competitive advantage issues in the real estate development and home building industry. Additionally, I'm dedicated to assisting veterans in college and business dealing with transition and professional development issues. U S Marine (59-63) and went to college on the GI Bill. BA in Finance (70) and MBA Degree (71) from CSU Fullerton. For more http://www.Business-DevelopmentCoach.com
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Saw you article in the paper. Sounds great.
Have you looked into the Student Veterans of America for assistance in setting up your group?
www.studentveterans.org
I have. I've been in touch with John Powers who gave us consent to link with the SVA web site and add some of his research on resources to the one's we have on our web site.
One of the only ways to fight this is through education and awareness. A lot of civlian students go to college right out of high school and have no point of reference for real life events. They fear mid term papers not IED's and combat missions.
How veterans can combat this if through education, share their stories, in an open and comfortable setting. They will make the civilian students stronger not only as students but people in general. We have set up "voices of veterans" or "Voices of wartime" and had veterans share their stories to faculty,staff, and students.. I know veterans who dropped out of college because the faculty members disgraced their service and involvement in OIF.
---Educate the faculty, bring in veterans to share their experiences, talk openly.
---Show documentaries "The War Tapes"
---Have them show pictures and videos of Iraq and deployments
---Student Veteran groups on campus can take these problems head on, with an entire group, not just one veteran against a tenured faculty member..
This is the importance of having a student veterans club on campus and a national voice in SVA.
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