LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY'S “OPERATION YELLOW RIBBON” EVENT
Charlie Daniels, Wynonna, Montgomery Gentry and The Grascals

Charlie Daniels, Wynonna, Montgomery Gentry and The Grascals are set to perform for 'Operation Yellow Ribbon' at Lipscomb University March 29, 2011. General Tommy Franks (Ret.) has been confirmed as the keynote speaker, and the Center for Deployment Psychology will be featured at the Symposium for university administrators.

Operation Yellow Ribbon features a daylong symposium sponsored by Lipscomb University and featuring experts from the Center for Deployment Psychology (CPD), Chal-lenge America, Not Alone and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The day will be filled with clinical as well as non-clinical approaches to working with veterans and develop-ing a better understanding of this unique population. An-other focus of the symposium is to bring together university administrators, certifying officials and others who work with student-veterans to discuss best approaches in cre-ating veteran-friendly campuses as thousands of veterans across the country are enrolling in universities through the Post 9/11 GI Bill.

Capping off the day’s events, Franks will address attendees at Lipscomb’s Allen Arena. Musical appearances by Charlie Daniels, Wynonna, Montgomery Gentry and The Grascals are scheduled for the evening event at 7 p.m. in Lipscomb’s Allen Arena.

“Our goal is to provide an informative day for those who work with veterans at universities across the country to help equip them with knowledge and expertise to make their campuses more accessible and friendly for veter-ans. By partnering with the Center for Deployment Psychology we want to help educate university counseling teams so they can offer programs that adequately serve our veterans as they reintegrate home and adjust to uni-versity life,” said David K. Hughes, Lipscomb University assistant dean of students and director of the Yellow Ribbon Program.

Admission to the symposium is open to any university representative or administrator who works with student-veterans or coordinates Yellow Ribbon programs on their campuses. Registration is $75 per person, which cov-ers all activities, materials, meals and VIP tickets for the concert. For more information or to register visit yel-lowribbon.lipscomb.edu or call 615.966.5176.

Tickets for the evening event only will go on sale for $10 on Feb. 18 at the Lipscomb University box office. Call (615) 966-7075. Members of the military and their families will be invited as guests of the events corporate spon-sors. Proceeds from the event benefit Lipscomb University’s Yellow Ribbon Program.

Lipscomb’s Yellow Ribbon Program offers eligible Post 9/11 GI Bill veterans and their family members an un-dergraduate degree tuition-free or a graduate degree tuition-free or at a greatly reduced tuition rate.

The Center for Deployment Psychology (CPD) is a non-profit, tri-service center funded through a grant awarded by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences to train military and civilian behavioral health pro-viders.