{"id":35388,"date":"2019-05-29T17:09:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/05\/29\/these-unique-scholarships-gives-student-vets-cash-to-make-ends-meet\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T07:14:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:14:35","slug":"these-unique-scholarships-gives-student-vets-cash-to-make-ends-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/veterans\/2019\/05\/29\/these-unique-scholarships-gives-student-vets-cash-to-make-ends-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"These unique scholarships gives student vets cash to make ends meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nadine Carson probably would\u2019ve had to drop out of college if not for the University of Maryland University College\u2019s Veterans Assistance Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 41-year-old ex-Air Force engineer was quickly running out of her Post-9\/11 GI Bill benefits, and even though she has a full-time job at an engineering firm, she was having trouble paying her tuition. Thanks to UMUC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umuc.edu\/military-and-veterans\/why-umuc\/veterans-resource-center\/veterans-assistance-fund.cfm\" target=_blank>Veterans Assistance Fund<\/a>, she was able to make up the difference in her tuition and continue pursuing her Master\u2019s degree in environmental management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is just another way that they\u2019re trying to help veterans get their educational goals,\u201d she said. \u201cThe Veterans Assistance Fund has been more helpful than I could possibly ever relay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UMUC, which will change its name to University of Maryland Global Campus effective July 1, is far from the only university to have this sort of fund devoted to veterans in need of a little extra financial help. Many schools have created a veteran emergency fund to give veterans help beyond just tuition support, including paying their bills, child care or even groceries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe understand that we can help with tuition scholarships and help students apply for loans, but it doesn\u2019t stop there,\u201d said William Cole, assistant vice president of principal gifts with the University of Akron\u2019s Department of Development. \u201cThese folks need additional help \u2026 We have mechanisms for helping those students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veteran emergency funds come in varying forms and help students in different ways. For example, while UMUC provides aid through its fund by handing out grants, Akron\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uakron.edu\/development\/funds\/funds.dot?id=1b09e924-8266-4a79-ac36-e7a109dae504\" target=_blank>Blair Family Foundation Veterans Emergency Fund<\/a> gives its students interest-free loans that must be repaid when the veteran is able to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keith Hauk, UMUC\u2019s associate vice president of veterans initiatives and military support, said that each student veteran at his school can receive up to $3,000 per year through the Veterans Assistance Fund. Since its inception in 2017, 31 UMUC students have been awarded grants totaling about $61,000, Hauk said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEven though $3,000 per academic year may not seem like a lot, in most cases it\u2019s what they need to get them over the top and get them across the finish line with degree in hand or get them on track to a degree,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rick Hansen, Oklahoma State University\u2019s coordinator of student veteran academic services, helps oversee his university\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/osugiving.com\/your-passion\/veterans\" target=_blank>Veterans Emergency Fund<\/a>. It\u2019s another grant-based fund, and Hansen \u2014 who served as a Marine infantryman from 1974-96 \u2014 said that 14 students have taken advantage of it since it became available in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that OSU\u2019s fund has helped veterans with issues ranging from a broken-down car that one vet didn\u2019t have the savings to fix to child care services that a single mother couldn\u2019t afford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s been a couple that we\u2019ve allowed them to not get burdened with their financial problems,\u201d Hansen said. \u201cOnce you start worrying about how you\u2019re going to feed yourself and your family, it\u2019s hard to study.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One such student OSU helped through its Veterans Emergency Fund is Joshua Fisher, a 34-year-old former Army policeman and a rising junior studying business management. At the time, he was attending Northern Oklahoma College before an intended transfer to OSU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two of Fisher\u2019s summer courses got cancelled last-minute, and his bills starting piling up. That\u2019s when he turned to OSU\u2019s Veteran Emergency Fund, which took care of those bills and allowed him to continue his education and successfully transfer to OSU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a very helpful tool,\u201d Fisher said. \u201cIt\u2019s an instrumental resource that is available at Oklahoma State for the veterans. You never know when things are going to happen. Sometimes for veterans, their options are very limited. It\u2019s keeping veteran students in school.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veteran emergency funds aren\u2019t just available at public universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, the for-profit Grantham University also has a specific emergency fund for veterans that it started through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grantham.edu\/student-support\/veteran-support-team-vst\/\" target=_blank>Veteran Support Team<\/a>. Ryan Yeager, a Grantham veteran support coordinator and a former Army helicopter mechanic, said that this fund can only be used for personal or familial reasons (as opposed to academic ones) and aid usually comes in the form of $400-$500 Walmart gift cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since Grantham\u2019s fund was established in 2017, nine students have received more than $3,100 in assistance, according to Yeager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSometimes we find ourselves in these situations and it\u2019s very humbling and our pride can get in the way,\u201d he said. \u201cThe reason you\u2019re attending college is that you know there\u2019s something better out there. 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