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In compliance with a state mandate in Ohio House Bill 488 the VMC surveyed the
student-veteran population to assess which VMC services are most important to
them, the top reasons students are using the Student Center and how comfortable
they are in it, how likely they would be to participate in future events, programs and
services, and to get a better understanding of general demographics of the
population in general. Dependents and spouses using benefits were included in the
survey but were filtered out of the results below as the primary mission of the VMC
is those students who have served or are currently serving in the military. Of the
668 known student-veterans 84 completed the survey for a return rate of 13%. The
survey was very representative of the known student-veteran body in regards to
gender, student level, and ethnicity. Older student-veterans slightly overrepresented the larger student body but overall the survey is believed to be a
reliable representative sample.
Current VMC Services
The survey found that by a wide margin the most important service the VMC
provides is the processing of educational benefits with a 77% response rate.
Academic support was the next most important service with 30% followed closely
by career and networking opportunities, social events, and student-veteran
organizations. All four were within 1 percentage point of each other. This supports
our theory that benefit processing is the most important service that the VMC
provides and without effective and efficient processing the other services are of
little consequence.
using the space for academic reasons and secondarily the ability to interact with
other student-veterans. This is encouraging as the space was designed with the
intent of offering room for student veterans to concentrate on academics but also
provide a space where student felt like they belonged and could connect with other
student-veterans.
Similar to likely use of services, no one event or program had a response rate above
50%. Womens specific activities, when adjusted to reflect only female responses,
had the highest rate at 47%. Attending sporting events (43%), social events for
veterans (43%), and physical wellness activities (40%) were the next three highest.
When adding the totals of those being equally likely or unlikely to participate to
those that would likely or definitely participate the order does not change.