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<p class="MsoNormal">Hey Texas Private School Veterans Consortium!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I must apologize for how absent I have been for the last couple months since we last met! Unfortunately, I had some medical stuff with family that put me out for about a month and then just trying to dig out of that.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I say that, just to say, I truly wanted to keep momentum moving forward with this group from when we met virtually last, and would love to reignite that moment!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anyways, we had discussed meeting virtually more regularly. Therefore, I am going to send out a monthly calendar invite for us to meet. We can then center these monthly conversations around different topics. I would love yalls thoughts
on topics that we could address. Based on our last conversation and some ideas I had, the following topics may provide a good jumping off point to start with:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Reserve/National Guard Policies – with Texas State Laws that set more specific rules around mandatory leaves of absence, this leaves a gap for Private Institutions that aren’t held
to these.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Advocating for the Expansion of Yellow Ribbon Benefits at your School<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Recruitment/Education Efforts around Military-Connected Students and increasing awareness of Yellow Ribbon/Affordability<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Faith Formation Programming for Veterans – For those private institutions with faith-centered missions.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Best Practices for Building Community at Private Schools– As private institutions, we have smaller base numbers of our population, meaning the 5-10% student engagement that student
activities may typically see, equates to maybe 5-10 students (or less) vs. State schools who will get 50-100 students attending – thus a more robust community for those engaging to connect with.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Assessment Data – The collective voice of this group may have a unique opportunity to hone in on a collective assessment tool that we could develop to assess our programs and then
advocate to our University and legislators for advancing policies that are data informed best practices. Would love to hear more about what you all are doing for assessment and perhaps what your thoughts are on this?<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">VA Education Benefit Processing Practices – Certifying, TVC, VA Policies, etc… (there is probably a hundred topics to cover in this realm, but I am not an SCO so I will leave this
conversation and topic setting to the experts.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">What else do you all have that you would like addressed?<o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In light of my absence and momentum falling off, I think that also points to our need of committee leadership so we have some redundancy in leadership who can keep momentum going in this group. This may be a topic we address in conjunction
with whatever topic we cover first.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks yall for bearing with me! Stand by for calendar invites with Zoom links for upcoming meetings.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kevin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Kevin Davis<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">VETS Program Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Student Success Initiatives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Paul L Foster Success Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Basement - 011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">254.710.7264 - Office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">719.332.3446 – Cell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BaylorVETS/">VETS Facebook</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><img border="0" width="214" height="40" style="width:2.2291in;height:.4166in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D942C4.71022710" alt="BU_e-signature[10]"></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Freestyle Script";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Military Veteran Students - If you ever want to go grab coffee or lunch on campus sometime, please let me know (my treat)!! I would love to hear more about you, your Baylor
journey and what brought you here!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">“I Slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold – service was joy!” – Rabindranath Tagore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">May we all have joy filled lives!!<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">“D=S-P (Despair = Suffering without Purpose)” – Viktor Frankl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Let us not despair and choose to find purpose outside of ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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