Tuesday, August 11, 2026
2:00 – 3:15 pm ET

Create a Campus-Wide Approach that Strengthens Belonging, Persistence & Career Success

Today’s student veterans, active-duty learners, and military-connected family members deserve coordinated, campus-wide support systems that help them successfully transition, persist, and thrive throughout their educational journey. Yet many campuses rely on a single office to meet their complex and evolving needs.

Join us on August 11, 2026, as our expert presenter shares how her campus transformed support for military affiliated students from a siloed service model into a collaborative, campus-wide commitment. By strategically partnering across academic affairs, student affairs, enrollment, advising, financial services, and career services, her campus has developed coordinated wraparound support systems that strengthened belonging, improved retention and persistence, and created smoother transitions into academic success and post-graduation careers.

You’ll learn practical strategies for creating proactive support models that move beyond reactive services and isolated offices. Help your campus create a more connected, supportive, and student-centered experience for military affiliated students and families by empowering faculty and staff to become informed advocates throughout every stage of the educational journey.

Topics Covered

Gain tools and strategies to help you:

• Identify the unique academic, financial, and social transition challenges faced by student veterans and military connected learners and how these differ from traditional student pathways.
• Analyze institutional gaps that occur when military affiliated support is siloed within a single office, and evaluate how these gaps impact retention, persistence, and student well being.
• Design a cross campus support ecosystem that integrates academic advising, financial aid, disability services, counseling, faculty engagement, and student affairs into a coordinated model of care.
• Implement communication strategies that reduce confusion around benefits, enrollment processes, and academic expectations for military affiliated students and their families.
• Strengthen faculty and staff readiness by developing training and shared language that improves cultural competence and responsiveness to military connected learners.
• Apply high impact, research informed practices that improve belonging, connection, and community for veterans, active duty students, and dependents.
• Evaluate institutional policies and procedures to ensure they are flexible, student centered, and aligned with the realities of military life, deployment cycles, and family responsibilities.
  

Presenter

Brianna Ridenour (she/her) is the Assistant Director for Adult Learner and Veteran Services (ALVS) at Colorado State University (CSU), where she leads peer advising initiatives, office programming, and new student transition efforts.
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Invite your entire team for one low price!

• Live 75-minute online session with carefully selected expert(s)
  
• Unlimited access for your entire team to view webinar recording for two years (available after live event)
• Materials for your team (handouts, discussion questions, etc.)
• Certificate of completion for each participant
  

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