Analysis Of The Worrisome Veteran

Between 2012 and 2013, the number of student veterans in the U.S. doubled, and has since been growing at a rate of 20% per year. The flood of veterans seeking higher education has left many schools playing catch up in order to understand their growing demographic. In 2009, Penn State published a video on their website entitled “The Worrisome Veteran”. The short video was meant as a training guide to show teachers how to manage student veterans. The video depicts student veterans as intimidating, dangerous, entitled and unintelligent. Penn State has since apologized for the video, but it mirrors how out of touch many schools are in regards to student veterans. In Whistling Vivaldi, Claude Steele explains how stereotype threat can negatively affect confidence, motivation and thus, performance. At the same time, however, Steele lays out some possible solutions that can be used to overcome stereotype threat. Therefore, while the many negative stereotypes student veterans face in an academic environment can prove harmful to their success, ________ can reverse the effects.
One common stereotype veterans face is in regards to mental health, often manifesting itself as posttraumatic stress disorder. PTSD is a mental health problem that …show more content…
She calls one of her methods a “silent solution”. It is simply a cork board outside of the Veteran’s Opportunity Resource Center in building 16. The board is labeled “What is a Veteran?”, and is decorated with numerous pictures of current CSM student veterans in various settings. The goal of this board is to showcase and educate the public about the diversity of military service, that service members are immersed in communities throughout the world, not only in combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. Justine hopes that the presence of this board will curb the image of a disgruntled, battle hardened and unstable