Charlie, Mike, Victor: Student Veterans' Loss of Purpose
Abstract
As student veteran populations and visibility have increased on campus, some scholars have explored how higher education works (or fails to work) to serve those who have served their country. In military radio jargon, “Charlie Mike” means, “continue the mission.” In this study, the mission was transitioning to and persisting through college and the participants were Student-Veterans and Service-Members (SVSM) – a term coined by Arminio, Grabosky, and Lang (2015). Thus – “Charlie Mike Victor” – focuses on the continuation of the mission for several “victors” – the phonetic “v” in ”Victor” here meaning “veterans.” In this study the concept of self-authorship (Baxter Magolda, 2007; Baxter Magolda & King, 2012) was combined with Schlossberg’s (1981) transition theory to explore the experiences of SVSM in higher education. This study seeks to build on the existing scholarship and more fully explore the role of various identities in the experience of SVSM.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/jvs.v2i1.28 | Journal eISSN: 2470-4768
Language: English
Page range: 50 - 68
Published on: Apr 5, 2017
Published by: Virginia Tech Publishing
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 2017 Michelle Lea Boettcher, Rachel Jantz, Melissa Salmon, J Kris Taylor, published by Virginia Tech Publishing
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.