{"id":1941,"date":"2022-01-31T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2022-03-24T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T16:16:10","slug":"january-2022-featured-campus-johnson-county-community-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/2022\/01\/31\/january-2022-featured-campus-johnson-county-community-college\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2022 Featured Campus: Johnson County Community College"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Johnson County Community College is this month\u2019s Featured Campus! \u201cWe chose JCCC because they hit the ground running with the new academic year. They have been doing a great job of offering events and performing outreach over the last semester, including several events for Veteran\u2019s Week that were well-attended. We love to see a campus that has been around a while maintain energy and motivation, especially through the challenges of the last two years,\u201d says PAVE Program Coordinator Riva Szostkowski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team Leaders Gerardo Ruiz and LaQuaysha Rockette work together with Veteran Services Coordinators Kena Zumalt and Sarah Weygand and seven Peer Advisors to run PAVE at JCCC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like all PAVE schools, the JCCC team has had to figure out how to adapt the program at a time when in-person support and programming is still limited. One way they make sure student vets are still getting information and connection to resources is by building and maintaining a student veteran-specific page on Canvas, their school\u2019s learning management system, which all of the 470 military and veteran affiliated students are sent an invitation to access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in-person support is still crucial, as Peer Advisor Dusty Cody explains: \u201cThat face to face makes all the difference \u2014 that engagement, to have the people come in here and engage.\u201d On the experience of providing peer support, Peer Advisor Tanner Brown says, \u201cI think it\u2019s all connection based, and you\u2019re going to get out what you put in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remembering her time as a student veteran at a different community college, Sarah says, \u201cI wish I had had the PAVE program, it would have been really helpful.\u201d Peer Advisor Yassin Ali describes the magic of in-person interactions: \u201cSomeone comes in, they\u2019re stressed out, they have no idea how they\u2019re going to sign up for classes, and it\u2019s intimidating. But within the time we interact with them, you can see that their load has been lightened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBuilding that network, building a friendship \u2014 that can go on for longer than just the time you\u2019re in school,\u201d says Gerardo. Building connections also helps retention rates, and Kena says that over the time that JCC has participated in PAVE, retention rates have increased for the students who participate in the program, even during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are so heartened to see how well JCCC has tailored and adapted the program over the years to best support their community. Thank you for your continued excellence, JCCC PAVE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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