?A new scholarship at Colorado State University will help military veterans who have been injured while serving their country succeed in the classroom and in their new lives.
The New Start Repp Distinguished Veterans Fund was established from a $250,000 gift from Dennis Repp, a California industrialist who is a veteran himself and a 50-year CSU alumnus.
The fund will provide direct support, including adaptive devices if needed, for personal and educational use and guidance for 10 to 12 veterans each year.
The scholarship builds on the work already done by CSU's New Start Program, which has developed services and support for injured veterans who served in the military in Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom and in other operations around the globe.
"This is one small way of making things better fro those who have served us," Repp said. "These people. on their own, have gotten into CSU, and the New Start program is an opportunity to provide assistance to them while they're getting their degrees. This is one more tool CSU has to serve veterans, and there is no group more deserving."
The New Start Program is located in CSU's nationally ranked Department of Occupational Therapy in the College of Applied Human Sciences. New Start is an extension of the Center for Community Partnership's nearly 30 years of national recognized outreach for designing, implementing and evaluating campus-and-community-based services, CSU official say.
Those services include helping people with brain injury, physical trauma or other life-altering trauma to graduate and get employed.
There are nearly 900 student veterans at CSU, which was cited by G.I Jobs magazine in 2011 as one of the country's top military-friendly schools based on recruitment and retention of student veterans and services offered through the university.
Monte Whaley: 720-929-0907 or mwhaley@denverpost.com
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