SUPPORT VETERAN STUDENTS WITH SCHOLARHIPS
Scholarship funds help to cover tuition, fees, and living expenses enabling SMU's Veteran students to focus more on their education and less on holding down a job or taking out student loans.
In the words of a student:
As a Veteran, I suffer from many service-related disabilities which sometimes make me feel like I’ll never be good enough. Rest assured, SMU faculty, and especially the DPT faculty, have been patient, understanding, caring, and accommodating to situations that arise from my disabilities. They don’t take it easier on me, I wouldn’t want that, but instead, they give me the opportunity to constantly prove that I am better than what my service-related disabilities are trying to tell me, and more importantly, they keep me in the “fight.”
Some days are hard to break my military mindset, but SMU welcomes it and allows me to use my training to try and think “outside” of the box. SMU was able to reignite the flame to my purpose, the same flame I had when serving all over the world and not even having tomorrow as a promise. They helped me to hang up one uniform of service, to work towards my next uniform of service. I selected SMU because they selected me; they selected the Airman and Soldier the military shaped me to be, and the physical therapist they are forming me to be.
Additional funding for Veterans helps to alleviate even the smallest amount of stress. It instills a positive influence in us as students by letting us know that someone believes and invests in us and our successes. It gives us hope during challenging times, that “sigh” of relief, to be able to breathe.
- Jason Do, DPT '25
