We Must Diversify How We Serve Our Veteran Community
LeNaya Hezel, Higher Education Consultant at Evocati, calls for policymakers to include HBCUs when serving the military-connected community in this article featured by The George W. Bush Institute.
“Historically, HBCUs have been a destination for preparing officers of color through ROTC programs. For so long we have overlooked pockets of our society that are locally providing services to a diverse all-volunteer force. Therefore, we must find ways to shift the narrative of how we are intentionally serving the military-connected community using three objectives:
We need to better understand who is providing that support and from where at a local level to empower diverse communities of service members, veteran, and their families.
We must be more strategic about identifying intersectionality and how other identity-based resources support the military-connected community in higher education.
We must expand and diversify voices at all leadership levels to include historically underrepresented expertise.”
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