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<p class="MsoNormal">Good Afternoon, All:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, Baylor will have three SCO’s attending TACVPO next month. Cindy Palmer and I will be attending, along with our supervisor, Jessica Alford. We noticed there was a private school session on the agenda and were thrilled to see that! Please
let us know when you are planning to meet for dinner. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also, if there is anything we can do to help with the conference session, let us know. Jessica, Cindy, and I will be glad to help! Jessica can be reached at
<a href="mailto:Jessica_Alford@baylor.edu">Jessica_Alford@baylor.edu</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:#144733">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:#144733">Debbi Parker</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:#144733">Compliance and Certification Coordinator / VA Benefits</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">Office of the Registrar | Baylor University</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Psvs-t <psvs-t-bounces@baylor.edu> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Ruiz, Trisha N<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 17, 2023 2:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Davis, Kevin <Kevin_Davis1@baylor.edu>; PSVS-T <PSVS-T@baylor.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Psvs-t] [EXT] Private School Consortium Monthly Meetings<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Kevin,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The content will be equally balanced between SCO duties and veteran student services/programming since UIW and UST’s structures perform both functions within our centers.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If Baylor SCO’s are attending, please connect them with us so that they may participate in our breakout session and dinner!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dr. Ruiz <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Psvs-t <<a href="mailto:psvs-t-bounces@baylor.edu">psvs-t-bounces@baylor.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Davis, Kevin<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 17, 2023 1:32 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> PSVS-T <<a href="mailto:PSVS-T@baylor.edu">PSVS-T@baylor.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Psvs-t] [EXT] Private School Consortium Monthly Meetings<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Dr. Ruiz,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is great! Glad you are setting up a meeting at TACVPO! I believe our SCOs are going to that, but not sure I will be able to make it. Are you thinking this will be largely Certifying focused conversations? Or also centered around student
services?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Curious who else will be there? We could discuss TACVPO in a meeting later this month, if that would be helpful.<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"><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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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Ruiz, Trisha N <<a href="mailto:ruiztn@stthom.edu">ruiztn@stthom.edu</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 17, 2023 12:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Davis, Kevin <<a href="mailto:Kevin_Davis1@baylor.edu">Kevin_Davis1@baylor.edu</a>>; PSVS-T <<a href="mailto:PSVS-T@baylor.edu">PSVS-T@baylor.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [EXT][Psvs-t] Private School Consortium Monthly Meetings<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Kevin,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hope you and your family are doing better. Prayers of healing sent your way.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Adriana Leal of UIW and I were discussing this very topic yesterday! Her and I are co-presenting at TACVPO next month on Opportunities and Obstacles faced by private schools. We are also planning a dinner for
all of us private school representatives who will be in SA for the conference. The purpose of our presentation and time together is to create a private school community of support, especially as the VA continues to change or implement policies with little
to no guidance. As we all know, this field can be immensely difficult so our goal is to create a space with continuous support! With new SCO’s in mind, we would like to create a space where no question is too small or too big. To include monthly or quarterly
Zoom meetings, depending on what the group at large would like to see. The University of St. Thomas would gladly host an in-person component if the desire is there, as well.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Please let Adriana and I know how we may help further this conversation. Also, if you are planning on attending TACVPO next month, please let me know if you would be interested in joining us for dinner so that
we may begin securing an attendee list for reservation purposes. We look forward to helping in any capacity possible! Hope to see some of you all next month.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Kindly,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dr. Ruiz <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000">Dr. Trisha Nicole Ruiz<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Veteran Success Center<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#C00000">University of St. Thomas-Houston
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Call/Text:</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D"> 281-658-7158<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Psvs-t <<a href="mailto:psvs-t-bounces@baylor.edu">psvs-t-bounces@baylor.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Davis, Kevin<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 17, 2023 12:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> PSVS-T <<a href="mailto:PSVS-T@baylor.edu">PSVS-T@baylor.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXT][Psvs-t] Private School Consortium Monthly Meetings<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hey Texas Private School Veterans Consortium!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<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>
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<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="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">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="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Advocating for the Expansion of Yellow Ribbon Benefits at your School<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Recruitment/Education Efforts around Military-Connected Students and increasing awareness of Yellow Ribbon/Affordability<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">Faith Formation Programming for Veterans – For those private institutions with faith-centered missions.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">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="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">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="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">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="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><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>
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<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"><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">Let us not despair and choose to find purpose outside of ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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