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Trump Education Cuts Undermine Growth Goals

The Trump administration has some ambitious goals that include trillions in tax cuts, a significant military buildup and a fresh investment in infrastructure. The White House released details of how it plans to pay for it all in its full budget request for fiscal year 2018: by slashing spending on pretty much everything else, but […]

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Veterans Share Poetry on Experiences for Memorial Day

GREENFIELD — In honor of Memorial Day, Preston Hood of Colrain stood on a hill alongside Poet’s Seat Tower Saturday afternoon and read personal poems inspired by his son Arrick. As birds chirped and fluttered across the cloud-speckled sky behind him, Hood, a Navy SEAL during the Vietnam War, told listeners about Arrick, a Marine, […]

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VA Error Dashes Veteran’s Hopes for Education

VENTURA, Calif. – The Veterans Administration has struggled with bad press in recent years and our Tipline story won’t do anything to change that. We focus on the V.A.’s G.I. Bill and how one big mistake could put a local vet out on the streets. Harold Boons served his country for 34 years. “I got […]

Tennessee Hopes Free Tuition for Guard Will Attract Recruits

Tennessee officials have been working this week to promote the state’s new free tuition plans. One program is designed not only to boost college enrollment. It might also help get people into the military. Members of the Tennessee National Guard previously received up to two years of free education at a state community college, which […]

DOD Budget Boosts Some Services for Military, Cuts Others

Military family support programs would see a $600 million boost under President Trump’s proposed budget, but the request comes with a $100 million cut in funding for child care and youth programs despite calls from families for more support in those areas. Family support programs would receive $8.3 billion in fiscal 2018 under the proposal, […]

University Leaders Trumpet Alternative Programs

Channing Tatum went to Harvard Business School. He was classmates with LL Cool J. Tyra Banks, too, posed for a photo by the Business School’s Centennial Bell when she attended courses there. “Smiling ear2ear on the Harvard Business School campus w/ my diploma!” the model and TV personality Tweeted. But none of these celebrities who […]

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Nevada Law Protects Students If For-Profits Close

LINCOLN, Neb. — A new state law allows students at Nebraska’s for-profit colleges to be protected financially if those schools suddenly close. Under the measure passed May 16 and signed into law by the governor a week later, student records from for-profit schools that close will be sent to the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. […]

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Trump Weighs Shifting Student Loan Oversight to Treasury

The Trump administration is considering moving responsibility for overseeing more than $1 trillion in student debt from the Education Department to the Treasury Department, a switch that would radically change the system that helps 43 million students finance higher education. The potential change surfaced in a scathing resignation memo sent late Tuesday night by James […]

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Free Tuition Plan Sparks Debate

SARANAC LAKE — The head of the Department of Labor and other state officials took questions and comments from parents, guidance counselors and North Country Community College faculty and staff Tuesday during a round-table discussion on New York’s new Excelsior Scholarship program. Enacted earlier this year, the program provides free tuition at the state’s two- […]

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William & Mary Gets Troops to Teachers Grant

The William & Mary School of Education has been chosen to establish a Troops to Teachers center in Virginia to help military veterans and soon-to-be veterans become K-12 teachers, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced last week. The $400,000 grant was awarded through the Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES), a U.S. Department of Defense […]

DeVry Parent Company Changes Name

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. — The company that owns one of the nation’s largest for-profit college chains is changing its name. DeVry Education Group, which owns DeVry University, announced Wednesday that it will now be called Adtalem Global Education. Company CEO Lisa Wardell said the new name “makes clear our purpose to empower students and our […]

Scientists Study Challenges in Digital Education

Education data scientists from Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL) hosted dozens of their peers from colleges and universities across the country late last month to discuss emerging challenges in research and design of digital higher education programs. Digital learning produced at Harvard has had a far-reaching impact, both globally […]

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