The schools recognized in the annual G.I. Jobs Guide to Military-Friendly Schools offer our military service members and volunteers scholarships, discounts, veterans' club, full-time staff, military credit, and other services. The guide allows service members and veterans to virtually meet student veterans from other universities and learn more about the transition from the military to academics.
Frostburg's own Christopher Kelbaugh is a featured student on the G.I. Jobs site. Kelbaugh is a Marine veteran who has served for more than four years as an infantry mortarman, including tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. The biology major and geography minor is also a member of the President's Leadership Circle.
Other campuses of the University of Maryland system that made the list include Salisbury University, Towson University, University of Maryland at College Park, and University of Maryland at University College. Private colleges of Maryland also made the list including Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Hood College, and McDaniel College, as well as a handful of community colleges.
G.I. Jobs is a private media company out of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, that provides education, transition assistance, and job opportunities for military personnel. The complete list of universities recognized as a military-friendly school can be found here.
Brittany, who publishes the G.I. Jobs website and magazine? Is this a Pentagon program, or a private media company?
ReplyDeleteAlso, are the other University of Maryland System schools represented on the G.I. Jobs list, or is FSU unique in the system?
You should talk to some veterans (or serving members of the military) who are students at FSU, to see what they say about the support FSU provides them, and solicit their suggestions for what more FSU could be doing.