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Evaluation, Program Development, and the Office of the Dean. He oversaw the recruitment, selection, education, systematic learning, and training of City Year's now 3,500 person youth corps; the continued development of City Year's alumni as "leaders for life"; and the engagement of children and teens in City Year's service and civic leadership initiatives in cities across the United States. He led the creation of City Year's "Give a Year" program, now named the City Year Alumni University Partners - a network of higher education institutions that provides benefits to members of the City Year network.
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Military Spouse Employment Partnership initiative, a partnership with currently more than 400 employer partners nationwide that have hired over 120,000 military spouses since the program's inception. He also led the effort to overhaul the infrastructure of 160 public schools on military installations across the United States. For his service he was awarded the
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Department of Veterans Affairs and the White House. Following his fellowship he returned to field duty at Fort Carson, and eventually was assigned to West Point as the Director of American Politics in the Department of Social Sciences. His military education includes the Field
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from 1981 to 1982. After his tour at Fort Carson he attended the Field
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network that activates and convenes civilian and military organizations across the United States to more effectively focus on issues associated with Veterans, military families, and active-duty service members reintegrating back into the communities across the country.
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