Veterans who take classes on college campuses believe they get less support from faculty staff than non-veterans, according to the National Survey of Student Engagement at the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research in Bloomington, Ind., which was released Nov. 4. Nevertheless, the survey determined that veteran and non-veteran students are more or less equally satisfied with their educational experience. The results were gleaned from responses earlier this year by 362,000 first-year and senior students at 564 colleges and universities in the U.S. Other findings: first-year students who are combat veterans spent twice as much time working and six times as many hours on dependent care as their non-veteran counterparts. And one in five combat veteran-students reported having a disability – twice as many as civilian respondents.
