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Stevens – the Institute of Business & Arts is proud to count itself among schools in the U.S. designated as Military Friendly®. We honor our veterans and active duty service members with specific benefits intended to show appreciation for their service and empower them to finish their degrees. 

Our student veterans have told us that Siba’s close-knit, supportive campus culture and small class sizes (8-9 students on average) are determining factors in their decision to choose our school. The one-on-one attention all students receive means that no one is ever lost in the crowd. Far from it, our instructors and Department Heads know all of their students by their first names—usually within the first week of classes—and mentorships develop organically among faculty and students almost immediately.

Additionally, Siba waives all fees for veterans and service members including our application fee and our textbook rental/resource fee. We extend this benefit to military spouses and dependents, too, and we appreciate that these efforts haven’t gone unnoticed by Military Friendly® Schools.

The Military Friendly® Schools list sets the standard for higher education institutions to provide the best opportunities for veterans and their spouses. This prestigious list provides a comprehensive guide for veterans and their families using data sources from federal agencies and proprietary survey information from participating organizations. Institutions earning the Military Friendly® School designation were evaluated using both public data sources and responses from a proprietary survey completed by the school.

More than 1,000 schools participated in the 2020-2021 survey, with 625 schools earning the designation from every state in the country. Final ratings were determined by combining the institution’s survey scores with the assessment of the institution’s ability to meet thresholds for student retention, graduation, job placement, loan repayment, persistence (degree advancement or transfer) and loan default rates for all students and, specifically, for student veterans.You can learn more about the benefits Siba offers to our military service members as well as first responders and their families by visiting our website.

“This is the best job I’ve ever had,” reflects Interior Design Department Head, Judy Plattner. Plattner, or “Miss Judy” as she’s known to her students, is celebrating her 20^th year of teaching at Stevens – the Institute of Business & Arts, and will be retiring from her position as department head in March. Plattner began her career at Siba as an adjunct faculty member in 1999, and accepted the role of department head a few years later. Under her leadership, Siba’s interior design program and her students have benefitted greatly from her design expertise, her contacts in the interior design community, and her mentorship.

In 2008, Plattner played a major role in the development of a Bachelor of Arts program at the college, which was designed to meet industry standards for interior design professionals. The curriculum continues to evolve, most often in the technical realm of software such as CAD, Revit, and SketchUp. Plattner’s ever-present involvement in the St. Louis regional design community has served as a valuable pipeline of information about what employers’ needs are so that class content can be updated and modified accordingly.

As she looks back at her career and the accomplishments of her alumni, how does Miss Judy measure her success? “Watching former students excel and get to the tops of their fields. We have graduates running programs at some of the largest interior design, architectural design, and engineering firms in the region.”

Plattner isn’t saying a final farewell, though! She’ll continue teaching classes part-time, as her retirement schedule allows. Leadership of the program will fall into familiar hands – veteran faculty member, Janelle Schrumpf, will take over the Department Head duties upon Plattner’s retirement in March 2020.

What grain of wisdom would Plattner impart to existing and future designers? “Constant networking and studying. It shouldn’t start or stop when you graduate. Start networking as a new student and don’t ever stop studying or learning.”