Military Spouse Articles

With many service members leaving the military ranks and beginning their academic journey at colleges and universities nationwide, we have a pressing need to understand suicide warning signs and the effects of depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) among these new students. Today, headlines in the media are dominated by […]

1. What can new students in the Computerized Accounting program expect? It all depends on which concentration they choose. There is a Taxation and a Bookkeeping and Payroll concentration. Both concentrations cover QuickBooks and Sage 50 Accounting software. The Taxation concentration focuses on tax preparation and accounting procedures. Students learn a variety of concepts, including […]

The military experience stretches far beyond the soldier in uniform – it encompasses his/her spouse, children, friends, families, and local communities. Each TDY, deployment, and temporary duty assignment has ripple effects that shifts a greater burden onto those at home, which presents challenges for the military spouse hoping to make strides in his or her […]

From a young age, Trident Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences student and Veterans and Family Scholarship recipient Eleanor Donaldson had dreams of joining the military. But helping her family make ends meet got in the way of those dreams. By dropping out of school to take on full time work, her hopes of enlisting […]

For the first 25 years of her life, Stephanie Melo had very little exposure to a work environment. Her family emigrated to a remote part of Canada, an area where career opportunities were limited – especially for women. It was a classic immigrant story – financial struggles, economic and social obstacles, and a language barrier. […]

PCS, TDY, BAH, PPP, and MyCAA were all acronyms I had never heard of before getting married to my spouse, who serves in the Army. When we married, I made a quick transition to a lifestyle that had been unfamiliar to me. There were new programs and services to learn, along with a vocabulary that […]