died in February<\/a> from injuries related to a car crash, after serving 20 years as dean of Columbia University\u2019s School of General Studies. During his tenure, the number of veterans attending Columbia skyrocketed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cFrom the first moment Peter and I started discussing specifically recruiting student veterans, he was supportive on day one,\u201d said Curtis Rodgers, Awn\u2019s vice dean at the School of General Studies. \u201cThat evolved over time into thinking about what it truly means to serve student veterans \u2026 and ultimately what we could do as a university even beyond the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Columbia had 40 to 50 veterans enrolled before Awn showed up, said Rodgers. Today, the school has 533 students attending using the Post-9\/11 GI Bill, a group that can include veterans as well as their dependents. For context, Columbia enrolled more than 2,100 total undergraduate students in its School of General Studies during the 2017-18 academic year, according to a university representative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, most other Ivy League schools have fewer than 100 Post-9\/11 GI Bill users enrolled, Education Department data shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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