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Half of Student Veterans Have Contemplated Suicide, Study Shows

Chronicle of Higher Education

August 4, 2011

Almost half of military veterans who are enrolled in college have contemplated suicide at some point, and 20 percent have planned to kill themselves, according to a study presented Thursday at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association. Colleges are largely unprepared to meet the needs of student veterans, whose numbers will reach the hundreds of thousands in the next decade, said M. David Rudd, a professor of psychology and scientific director of the National Center for Veterans' Studies at the University of Utah.

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