{"id":61144,"date":"2014-09-08T09:20:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T13:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=61144"},"modified":"2019-03-31T09:05:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T13:05:50","slug":"u-s-rep-john-mica-learns-ucf-offers-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/u-s-rep-john-mica-learns-ucf-offers-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep. John Mica Learns What UCF Offers Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Representative John Mica, whose congressional district includes UCF, visited the Veterans Academic Resource Center (VARC) on August 8 to find out more about how UCF is helping its student veteran population.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Associate 海角直播 Registrar and VARC Director Paul Viau presented an overview of the VARC\u2019s services while Alzo Reddick, assistant vice president for 海角直播 Relations and Director of Defense Transition Services, presented Rep. Mica with information about UCF\u2019s Soldiers to Scholars program. Vice President 海角直播 Relations Dan Holsenbeck; 海角直播 Registrar Brian Boyd; Career Services\u2019 Director of Career Development Bill Blank; and various student veterans were also on hand to speak with Rep. Mica and answer questions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Rep. Mica plans to return to UCF in the future to attend a VARC programming event.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0VARC, located in the CFE Arena suite 100, is a <strong>one-stop solution<\/strong> to for student veterans. The center provides study space and lounge space, as well as access to a number of university offices, in one central location. To learn more about VARC\u2019s services, accommodations and workshops, visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/varc.sdes.ucf.edu\">varc.sdes.ucf.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans Academic Resource Center <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":61145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[592,1149,8060,4185,5055,5056],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-61144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brian-boyd","tag-dan-holsenbeck","tag-paul-viau","tag-sdes","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-academic-resource-center"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Rep. 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