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THURSDAY, JAN. 28, 2016 | VOLUME 130 ISSUE 4
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Brooklynne Mosley is one of almost 1,000 student veterans at the University after spending 10 years serving in the Air Force. Missy Minear/Kansan
KU Student Veteran Center to open next January
► LARA KORTE
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There are students who take a gap year, and then there are students like Brooklynne Mosley, who take a gap decade.
Mosely, 31, is not the average undergraduate student; she's what most called non-traditional. Before enrolling for fall of 2013, Mosley spent 10 years serving in the Air Force, working as a pilot on Operation Iraqi Freedom. Now, she's one of almost 1.000 student veterans at the University who have made the adjustment from military life to college. "All of our experiences are very unique," Mosley said. "And student veterans, they come to KU and they just want to learn and get done, learn and finish school."
There are certain, unique struggles that come with being a student veteran. For Mosley, one of the biggest challenges was figuring out how to manage all her free time.
"The procrastination game was pretty strong when I got out of the military," Mosley said.
Despite adjusting to a more leisurely schedule, Mosley said her transition into college life was pretty painless. When she was living in California, she was contacted by a University representative who walked her through the specifics of her enrollment. She admitted it made her transition
"I was in a very unique position," Mosley said. "I was active duty. I was on terminal leave, which is the leave towards your end, and was still able to start classes, so she was able to help me with my unique situation."
as a veteran easier.
Having faculty and advisers that understand veterans can make a difference in a non-traditional student's college experience, said Mike Denning, director of the Office of Graduate Military Programs.
The University currently offers different resources for veterans who need help adjusting to college life. One of the most useful tools, Denning said, is a University 101 class specifically targeted toward veterans.
"It's an orientation course to make sure that transition from the previous life to their life as a student is successful," Denning said.
The center will be located on the third floor of Summerfield Hall, pending the relocation of the business school in the summer. Denning said the center would be a place that could provide "dedicated student veteran services."
The University is looking to centralize resources for these students in a new Student Veteran Center, planned to open in January 2017.
and fall of 2016. The center will be around 3,000 square feet,including a lounge and six office spaces.
Renovations to Summerfield Hall will take place throughout the summer
The center will help with every aspect of student life unique to veterans including recruitment, admissions, Counseling and Psychological Services, academics and career searching.
Denning said the center's staff seeks to provide support with targeted resources for student veterans that help with veterans' unique needs.
"And [...] we're hoping to increase the utilization of all those resources, because they're going to be offered in a place where they feel very comfortable," Denning said.
Right now there is no formal staff for the center, although a search is in process for a director. Greg Freix, a professor in the School of Business and an Air Force veteran, is chair of the director search committee. Freix said they're looking for someone who can bring background experience and strong interpersonal skills to the University's student veterans.
"We want someone who is going to be a wonderful team player," Freix said. "With an organization like this, it is not going to have a higher number of director-report type aspects.
fective relationships with colleagues all around campus."
Freix added: "This director's going to need to be able to establish very ef-
The committee narrowed the pool of prospective directors down from 70 applicants to four final candidates. The first candidate, Lora Rimmer, gave her presentation on Monday. The second candidate is Randy Masten, assistant director of Graduate Studies at the University. Masten will present on Wednesday and the other two candidates, who have yet to be announced, will present next week.
Once a director is selected, Denning said they will be responsible for organizing the resources in the center. Although there is the possibility of additional hires, the center will likely pull from existing University resources to provide services to veterans.
Denning hopes that, in addition to providing academic direction, the center will be a place where student veterans can gather, socialize and ultimately feel at home.
"They've left an environment in which there was a lot of camaraderie, friendship, support and they all held the same ethos and morals and values — or at least had some experience of that," Dennings said. "So this student veteran center is an opportunity to have a place where they can add back onto that camaraderie."
Three takeaways from Jan. 27 Full Senate meeting
Almost two months ago, the Student Executive Committee called for impeachment against Student Body President Jessie Pringle,Student Body Vice President Zach George and Chief of Staff Adam Moon. Allegations centered on inaction regarding multicultural issues.
▶ CONNOR MITCHELL @ConnerMitchell0
Three takeaways from last night's Full Senate meeting:
Wednesday night members of Student Senate voted against continuing the impeachment process for Pringle, George and Moon.
Student Senators voted by secret ballot whether to continue with the impeachment process, and a simple majority was needed to continue the proceedings for each of the accused. Voting numbers were unavailable as of Wednesday night.
Student Senators were unclear on impeachment procedures. There was confusion among Senators on when to ask questions about the impeachment findings.
After Impeachment Committee Chair Tyler Childress presented the committee's findings against Pringle, Senators waited to ask questions until after Pringle spoke on why she should not be impeached. Per Senate Rules and Regulations, Senators are only allowed to ask questions about the Impeachment findings to the chair at this stage of the process.
- Edited by Madi Schulz
CAPS advisory board will push for increased funding to alleviate under-staffing and scheduling issues
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A potential campus fee increase may help the Counseling and Psychological Services meet the needs of more students and align CAPS with national standards of care.
Members of the CAPS Advisory Board will recommend a $10.60 increase per student for the Required Campus Fee when the Student Senate Fee Review Committee starts meeting in February.
Of the $455.50 total Required Campus Fee, $18.40 is given to CAPS to pay staff salaries, according to the Comprehensive Fee Schedule from the Office of the Registrar. The proposed increase will go toward funding the salaries of six new therapists, as well as repaying Bert Nash, the mental health care provider of Douglas County, for uncompensated care it has provided to University students, CAPS Advisory Board Chair
Baker said Bert Nash and CAPS partnered in 1992, and the two centers agreed CAPS would send students with severe mental health problems it could not adequately address to Bert Nash.
"We don't have an in-patient-type set up at CAPS, and that is the standard of care for a lot of more serious mental illness, and CAPS can't do that," he said. Medical evaluations for University students at Bert
Source: CAPS
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Nash cost $60, Baker said. From there, he said Bert Nash uses a sliding scale
based on a student's income SEE CAPS PAGE 2
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