Hello Everyone!    

All of the programs we will be coordinating are free or low-cost to any student or veteran (including their families) who want to join us.  And the best thing is you can invite your friend too!  

If you have any ideas for events that you would like to see, please let our VP, at the e-mail below, know and she will do her best to get it worked into the spring semester! If you are interested in any of the following events or would liketo learn…

Greetings UW Vets For Vets!



Do any of your organization’s members plan on going to Graduate School? I am pleased to announce that Kaplan’s Free Practice Test Event is back! This semester we’re making the event more convenient than ever. Students will have the opportunity to attend either our On Site event on Saturday November 3rd OR to attend a practice test from anywhere they have internet access in our live, online classroom, which we call Classroom Anywhere.…

Interested in a relationships workshop? One is being done for veterans and their loved one at Edgewood:  http://ow.ly/a64qb 

Looking for one?  Try here:  http://ow.ly/a63sg 

~Application deadline is March 1~







With funding from a number of generous donors, the office of Adult

Career & Special Student Services (ACSSS), a part of UW-Madison’s

Continuing Studies, offers a number of annual scholarships designed to

help adults returning to college to complete degrees.  In addition,

several awards are designated for single parents who are…

Representatives from the Pres House have reached out to us and would like to create a veterans community among them.  Here’s a quick run down of what they are offering:  details below.



If you like what you see, or have any questions, contact our president:  Paul @ pedolan@wisc.edu

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A message from our a Dryhootch friend:

Hello!

As Dryhootch works with the WI Department of Veteran Affairs to select

a site and open a Dryhootch in Madison in early 2012, we have launched

the site http://www.dryhootchmadison.org to keep everyone up to date

on the progress, and to reach out to the community for help.

Please join us at …

UPDATE:  The National Roll Call will take place on Veteran's Day, November 11th, from 8:30am to 4:00pm.

Additionally, we're looking for more people to honor the fallen by volunteering to read names.  Volunteering will consist of reading 200 names in 15 minutes.  If you're interested, send us an e-mail at vets@rso.wisc.edu!

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In addition to the volunteer opportunities Vets for Vets is organizing for members of the organization to volunteer together, there are additional activities you can volunteer for on an individual basis, if you would like.

Contact :

Mary J. Merlin

Community Relations Service Specialist

Wm. S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital

2500 Overlook…

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You answered Uncle Sam's call.  Now will you answer Google's? . . .

Google wants YOU!

On October 4^th @ 5:00pm Google Inc. will be hold a presentation for student veterans to provide an overview of the company, veteran initiatives, …

This Thursday is the Fall Career and Internship Fair.  In preparation, Bechtel contacted us at the office and expressed their interest in veterans that are pursuing an engineering degree.  

The SVA National Leadership Summit is fast approaching and my sincere hope is that, we as WI Student Veterans, can use this opportunity to meet one another and build a cohort that can work together to protect the veteran benefits that our predecessors worked so hard to pass on to us.  To that end I see three key target areas:

1.       1. WI veteran education benefits.  The state of veteran educational benefits is anything but clear at this point.  As a cohort, we need to…