Veterans Club

Boots to Books Scholarships for Fall 2008

$250 Scholarships for veterans for books and supplies

Sierra College will award two $250 scholarships each semester, to be spent in the on-campus bookstore for books and supplies. Veterans with no previous college experience are encouraged to apply.

Fall 2008 Award Winners:

• Jesus Barrios
• Lindsey Campbell
• Joshua Rose
• Jacob Thrall

A big “Thank You” goes to Matt Folsom of the Sierra College Bookstore for donating this semesters full scholarship, which totals $1,000.

Apply today at a Financial Aid Office:

• 916-660-7310, Rocklin Campus, Winstead Bldg., Rm. L131
• 530-274-5346, Nevada County Campus, A Bldg. (upstairs)

Previous events:

Friday, Sept 28: The Road Home … From Combat to College and Beyond. A
free forum for educators & community advocates for veterans featured noted speakers.

In October and November 2006, we organized a series of fund raisers, including a road march, to honor our fallen servicemen and women of the armed forces and to raise scholarship money for dependents that have lost a parent due to war. Here are photos from raffle events.

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Mission Statement

The Sierra College Veterans Club links veterans and their family members from all branches of military service who have served during times of peace and times of war. The Club strives to support veterans by encouraging a broadening of their self-image and by encouraging lifestyle management principles that contribute to success with their academic, community, spiritual and emotional needs. Such success will lead them to become contributing citizens recognized for their professional and civic achievement.

To achieve this Mission, Club members will subscribe to the following:

• Members will understand that a basic principle will be the Club’s provision of a safe place for its membership to form a unique camaraderie within which healing from service connected anxieties can begin.
• Club members and mentors will encourage all veterans to learn principles of behavioral management that will result in lifelong emotional and physical health.
• Club mentors will assist veterans in need of comprehensive help with emotional or medical issues to find professional guidance.
• Club members will be encouraged to apply critical thinking skills so that they will understand the relationship between change, stress and success.
• Club mentors will teach and encourage conduct associated with student success and academic achievement.
• Club members will honor the fallen in order to give meaning to their service and sacrifice.
• The Club will develop a Speakers Bureau whose mission will entail informing the college community about aspects of military service and how such service changes one’s outlook on life.
• Members will support diversity as means to enhance the cultural and intellectual needs of the college and its community.
• The Club will practice benevolence through provision of scholarships or other agreed upon support which can be offered children who survive a parent lost in war.

An understanding of the foregoing principles and the premise of personal accountability and its link with one’s character, together with a focused effort to establish goals, will comprise the foundation for a veteran’s happiness and success in a changing and complex world.

Veterans Educational Services Office