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The Military and Veterans Committee serves as an advisory committee to University leaders concerning issues and programming related to the military and veterans’ community at the University of Missouri. The Committee develops recommendations for ways to positively improve the educational, family, health, and career support to the University military and veterans community based upon dialogue between departments within the University, state and federal organizations and agencies, and the surrounding business community. The Committee works to create awareness of the issues faced by this population, recommends the development of programs to support veterans and family members, helps connect students, faculty, staff, and alumni to events and organizations related to veterans issues, identifies opportunities to connect the University’s research and engagement mission with veteran and military issues, and provides a forum to University military and veterans for feedback on issues that affect their lives.

For the 2025-2026 Academic Year the committee will focus on: Looking for enhanced methods and developing key strategies for recruiting military-connected students. Review how credit for military training and experience is awarded and see if there are ways to award applicable credit versus general elective credit that may or not be applicable to the degree pursued. Tell the MU story on how MU values, encourages and supports our military & veteran students. Look at external surveys and results to determine things we could add to support our military-connected students.  Continue to recommend, develop, and refine student friendly policies to better serve the military/veteran student population.

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