FASE Military-Connected Students

Faculty & Staff for Student Excellence Mentoring for Military-Connected Students

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The FASE Mentoring for Military-Connected Students program pairs veterans, current service members, and other military-connected students with military-connected mentors as a way to assist students in navigating through higher education and to help students make a successful academic and social transition from their military or home environments to a college campus.

Mentors support their protégés in a variety of ways, from directing them to existing resources offered on and off campus to keeping them motivated during their first critical year of college. In addition, protégés have opportunities to participate in several FASE Mentoring events throughout the academic year. 

This program seeks to enrich military connected students mentally, emotionally, and academically.

Goals of FASE for military-connected students

  • Provide academic and career support by pairing IU faculty, staff, and student mentors with students who need help in navigating the campus environment.
  • Bring students, faculty, staff, and units such as the Center for Veteran and Military Students together in programs designed to help students enhance and apply academic skills and strategies for college success, career development, and life-long learning.
  • Offer students high-quality peer mentoring, as well as faculty and staff mentoring relationships with emphasis and expertise in the unique needs of the veteran, current service member, and military connected student community.
  • Connect students to people, services, and information that directly enhance their college living and learning experiences and promote future personal and professional success.
  • Create a supportive environment during the first-year experience.