Rachel Anderson Director, Center for Adult and Veteran Services Preventing Veteran Suicide on Campus; A Peer Mentoring Model Rachel Anderson earned her Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Stanford University and a Master of Arts in Counseling from Saint Mary’s College of California. She is currently ABD in Cultural Foundation of Education at Kent State University. Her dissertation research includes a feminist critique of the globalization of education for girls in developing regions.
Joshua Rider Assistant Director for the Center for Adult and Veteran Services Joshua Rider is the Assistant Director for the Center for Adult and Veteran Services at Kent State University. He holds a Master of Education with a concentration in Higher Education and Student Personnel. He has served as the institutions VA Certifying Official for the past six years and the advisor for the Kent State University Veterans Club for 3 years.
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Meg Krause Serving Those Who Serve: Promising Practices in Veterans’ Education Meg Krause has served ten years as a medic in the United States Army. During her five years of active duty, she served two overseas tours in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Since leaving active duty and joining the Reserves, Krause graduated from Penn State University and now brings her passion for helping fellow service members and veterans to her civilian work as associate director of military programs at the American Council on Education (ACE). In this role, Krause supports ACE veteran initiatives such as the Veteran Success Jam and Serving Those Who Serve. Prior to this, she consulted on America’s Heroes at Work, a U.S. Department of Labor education campaign focused on helping veterans with traumatic brain injury and/or post-traumatic stress disorder succeed in the workplace, and the National Resource Directory, a website developed jointly by the U.S. Departments of Defense, Labor and Veterans Affairs that provides information and assistance to wounded, ill and injured service members, veterans and their families.
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Eric Buetikofer Communication and Retention Strategies for Today’s Student Veteran Eric Buetikofer is a former active duty Army disabled Veteran. He has a bachelor’s degree in Social Studies Secondary Education from Mercyhurst College and a master’s degree in Cross-Cultural and International Education from Bowling Green State University. Eric currently works for Bowling Green State University in the office of Nontraditional and Transfer Student Services. Eric is a member of NACADA and has most recently presented at the Kent State “Ohio Universities: Serving Those Who Served” Veteran Symposium.
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Larry Braue, Ed.D. Veteran's Success ProgramDr. Larry Braue, (Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, Ret.) served over 27 years in the United States Army, with 21 of those years on Active Duty. He enlisted in the United States Army Reserve in April 1981 and served through December 1983 as a Light Weapons Leader in the 12th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Arlington Heights, Illinois. He received a Reserve Forces commission as an Infantry Officer from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. He joined the Active Guard Reserve Program in 1988 as a First Lieutenant.
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Scott Peska, Ed.D. Assessing Military and Veteran Student Services Dr. Scott Peska serves as the Director of Military Student Services at Northern Illinois University. Additionally, Scott serves as the NASPA Region IV-East Enough is Enough Coordinator to help stem societal violence on college campuses and their communities. Peska has presented on multiple topics at national conferences (ACPA, NASPA, FYE, NODA, ISTS). Peska earned his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and focuses much of his research on transfer students and their adjustment to college. |
Wendy A. Lang Director, Director of Policy and Programs for the The Operation College Promise Model Wendy A. Lang is the Director of Policy and Programs for the New Jersey Association of State Colleges and Universities (NJASCU). Prior to joining NJASCU in the fall of 2007, Wendy worked in state government for 10 years including serving as Senator John H. Ewing’s Chief of Staff, staffing both the Senate Education and Women’s Issues Committee, and later, filling an appointment as Governor Christie Todd Whitman’s Education Policy Advisor. Wendy currently serves on the Richard Stockton State College (RSSC) Veterans Advisory Board, and has contributed to numerous grant review boards, facilitated for the American Council on Education’s inaugural “Veterans Success Jam” and participated in the US Department of Labor’s “American Heroes at Work” think tank. She is a frequent contributor and presenter at local and national conferences focusing on veterans in transition.
Lauren DelRicci Lauren DelRicci is a veteran of the United States Navy. She joined the service shortly after graduating high school in her hometown of Medford, New Jersey. Her time in the military included tours on the USS Blue Ridge LCC-19 in Yokosuka, Japan, and onboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz CVN-68 in San Diego, California. Her highest accomplishment was earning the rank of Machinist Mate Third-Class Petty Officer. While on active duty, Lauren attended college courses at University of Maryland and Central Texas College, nearly earning her associate’s degree before her transition into civilian life. Upon return to New Jersey, Lauren pursued her education at the local county college and eventually found her place studying at The College of Communications at Rowan University. She served as the student president of Rowan’s Veteran Student Organization and spent many hours in the veterans’ affairs office as a VA work-study student, graduating in May 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in public relations. Since graduation, she has worked in various capacities serving New Jersey’s veteran student population, primarily as the Outreach Coordinator for Operation College Promise. Lauren has been accepted to Monmouth University and plans to participate in their Masters of Arts program studying Corporate and Public Communications beginning spring, 2012.
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Doug Boyd, Ph.D. From Combat to Kentucky Oral History Project Doug Boyd Ph.D. serves as the Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries and is a recognized national leader regarding oral history, archives and digital technologies. Most recently, Boyd led the team that envisioned, designed and implemented the open source OHMS system that synchronizes text with audio and video online. His recent publications include the book Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community Doug Boyd also regularly writes, lectures, and consults on oral history and digital technologies, archives, and digital preservation and he regularly teaches archives and oral history courses for the University of Kentucky’s School of Library and Information Science and Education Department He is currently managing the IMLS grant project Oral History in the Digital Age establishing current best practices for collecting, curating and disseminating oral histories. The grant is directed by MATRIX at Michigan State University and partners the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the Oral History Association, and the American Folklore Society. Previously, Doug Boyd established and administered Digital Programs for the University of Alabama Libraries, served as the Director of the Kentucky Oral History Commission and prior to that worked as the Senior Archivist for the oral history collection at the Kentucky Historical Society.
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James Schmeling James Schmeling is co-founder of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families and serves as Managing Director. He is a member of the senior leadership team, and promotes the mission of the Institute by working with Syracuse University partners, with federal, state and local partners throughout the country, with Veterans, their families, NGOs, educational institutions, and others who have a stake in the mission and values of the Institute.
Raymond Toenniessen Ray Toenniessen is the Director of Operations for the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University. Additionally, he serves as the National Managing Director of the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities program, a program created by the Whitman School of Management and operated by the IVMF.
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Ronnie White Veteran Transition Issues Ronnie White is the Assistant Director. Ronnie served 22 years active duty for the Army National Guard and retired in May 2004. After retiring from the military, he was a high school teacher/head coach for 4 years before joining Mississippi State’s Center for America’s Veterans. He holds a Bachelor of Public Administration from the University of Mississippi and is currently enrolled in Graduate School in Public Policy and Administration at Mississippi State University. |
Diane Sandefur TRIO Veterans Upward Bound - Be All That You Can Be Diane Sandefur has been with the University of Pennsylvania for over 20 years, with VUB since 1997, and has served as Director for the past eight years. She is dual degreed from the University of Pennsylvania having received her Bachelor of Arts in 1995 with a major in Psychology and a minor in Women's Studies and with Magna Cum Laude honors. She received her Master's of Science in Education with a concentration in Educational Psychology in 1997. She has served as the TRIO Mid-Eastern Regional President for three terms from 2004-2011, as the Pennsylvania TRIO President for one term from 2002-2004, and as the Treasurer and Secretary for the National Association of Veterans Upward Bound for one year each from 2000-2002. Most recently she concluded serving for seven years on the National Board of Directors for the Council for Opportunity in Education from 2004-2011. It is an honor for Diane to serve the underrepresented veterans in the Philadelphia region and to assist them as they prepare to enroll in college.
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Community College Roundtable
Allisha Lee Allisha Lee is the newly appointed Director of the Fort Campbell Campus at Hopkinsville Community College and serves on the President’s Leadership Team. She began her employment at HCC in August 2001 while her husband was stationed at Fort Campbell and, through her years of service, has streamlined practices regarding active duty soldiers which has allowed her to advance to her current position. Allisha’s innovative leadership style has allowed her to build on what is proven and push toward a new paradigm – developing new advising initiatives such as group advising in a military setting, developing complementary information systems for soldiers, and providing excellent empathetic customer service to all servicemembers, veterans, and their family members. In addition to Allisha’s service to HCC, she is an active community member serving both on the Military Affairs Committee for the local chamber and is also a member of the KY/TN Chapter of the Association of the United States Army. She holds a BA in Organizational Leadership from Northern Kentucky University and a MA in Higher Education Administration from the University of Louisville.
Andy Martin Andy Martin is the Assistant VA Certifying Official at Jefferson Community and Technical College in Louisville, Kentucky. He has been with JCTC since June 2009 . Andy served in the Kentucky National Guard from 2001-08 and was deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004-05. He will be transferring to the University of Louisville and plans to major in Business Administration.
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