Veterans
You will live as long as your life has meaning. I embarked on this educational journey to satisfy my life’s desire to learn. This opportunity crossed my path at the right moment and is supplying me with the chance to evaluate my ability to perform on the college level with like-minded people within the veteran’s community, where a person can always find support. All of the instructors and staff are helpful! Thank you for this possibility. – George, Coast Guard, Ocean City, NJ The New Jersey Clemente Course Veterans Initiative (CCVI) launched its second cohort on September 25, 2025, welcoming twenty-four veterans from every branch of service. The cohort includes eight women; and while most come from communities across New Jersey, the course has also drawn participants from New York. Part of the wider Clemente Veterans Initiative and operating in partnership with the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and Atlantic Cape Community College , the CCVI brings transformative humanities education to those who have served.
Shakespeare famously said “all the world’s a stage,” and for the Providence Clemente Veterans’ Initiative, so is the classroom. Thanks to...
After he retired, Bill Murphy realized he had a story to tell. He began taking writing workshops in his hometown of Boston, which led him...
Since the Vietnam War, Clarence Jackson has made it his mission to help fellow veterans find the resources and support they need in their...
Amelia Templeton’s Artists in Arms brings together her two greatest passions: giving back to her veteran community and art. She was...
Service in the military comes with a clearly defined purpose, and the transition to civilian life can come with uncertainty about how to...
While accepting the 2020 Innovation in the Humanities Award from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, Providence CVI director...
For Veterans Day, Johnny Horton, a professor in Seattle's Clemente Veterans Initiative (CVI) at Antioch University Seattle, wrote a...
In honor of Veterans Day, Clemente Veterans' Initiative literature professor Johnny Horton writes about the rich community of the CVI classroom at Antioch University Seattle in this opinion piece in Crosscut. "Ultimately, I think the humanities build a community that fortifies against the dangers of isolation. The humanities reinforce our communal nature through communication. In this way, it feels religious, like communion," Horton writes. Read the full article here.