{"id":1129,"date":"2018-07-03T16:14:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T16:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2018-07-13T17:25:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T17:25:52","slug":"purdue-named-one-of-americas-best-colleges-for-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/2018\/07\/03\/purdue-named-one-of-americas-best-colleges-for-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"PAVE Partner Campus Purdue Named One of America\u2019s Best Colleges for Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1131\" src=\"http:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/Capture-300x177.png\" alt=\"Purdue University Peer Advisor Stephanie Jo Millette\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/Capture-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/Capture-768x452.png 768w, https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/Capture-1024x603.png 1024w, https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/07\/Capture.png 1164w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong>PAVE Partner Campus Purdue University has been named one of the best colleges in the country for military veterans by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegeconsensus.com\/rankings\/best-colleges-veterans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College Consensus<\/a>. \u201cI was really happy to see how they come up with their rankings,\u201d said Jamie Richards, director of the Purdue Veterans Success Center. \u201cAnd then seeing that a lot of our peer institutions in the Big Ten are in there as well was pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"FORMAT-BODY\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/veterans\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Veterans Success Center<\/a>\u00a0located in the Purdue Memorial Union provides resources and support for veteran students and those still serving in the military, as well as their dependents as they navigate available financial benefits and becoming part of the campus community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FORMAT-BODY\">\u201cAfter applying to Purdue and getting in touch with people at the center, PAVE (Peer Advisors for Veteran Education) reached out to me and said, \u2018This is what we are, this is what we do. Can we help you?\u2019\u201d said Stephani Jo Milette, Air Force veteran and Purdue horticulture student. \u201cIt was amazing knowing that there was someone who was going to help me here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(From the Purdue University website)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/releases\/2018\/Q3\/purdue-named-one-of-americas-best-colleges-for-veterans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z0_1asBKKq0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAVE Partner Campus Purdue University has been named one of the best colleges in the country for military veterans by\u00a0College Consensus. \u201cI was really happy to see how they come <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/2018\/07\/03\/purdue-named-one-of-americas-best-colleges-for-veterans\/\">&#8230; Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}