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California Initiative Serves Student Veterans

VENTURA – The Ventura County Community College District Veterans Resource Center Coordinators from Moorpark College, Oxnard College and Ventura College met with managers from California Lutheran University, California State University, Channel Islands, and National University to discuss best practices for helping student veterans achieve success. Leading the discussion was VCCCD Trustee Larry Kennedy, Chancellor Bernard […]

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Bio Challenge Hopes to Draw Veterans

Virginia Beach is partnering with The Center for Advancing Innovation to create the VABeachBio Innovation Challenge. The initiative will bring together entrepreneurs, industry and inventors who will compete to turn inventions from research labs into successful startup companies. In a news release, the city said the challenge also seeks to help the region’s large concentration […]

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Case Western Adds First M.A. in Military Ethics

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Case Western Reserve University has established the nation’s first graduate program in military ethics. The Master of Arts in Military Ethics program formalizes a field of study that contends with questions of how advancing military technologies relate to the common humanity of both enemy and ally, the university said. While the study […]

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Budget Cuts Aid for “Most Needy”

President Donald Trump’s budget blueprint calls for cutting $9 billion from the U.S. Department of Education budget while adding $1.4 billion investments in public and private school choice programs. Proposed cuts to the department include eliminating the $2.4 billion Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants program, eliminating the $1.2 billion 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, […]

N.Y. Assembly Proposes Changes to Scholarship

If the state Assembly has its way, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s Excelsior Scholarship would undergo major changes to the way it’s funded and dispersed. The changes, part of the Assembly’s one-house budget, focus on what critics had called the most restricting factors in the governor’s tuition-free public college plan. Read More

Art Helps Vets “Soldier On”

SHELBURNE FALLS, Mass. — An unusual exhibit of artwork by U.S. military veterans is now on display through April 30 at the Salmon Falls Gallery. Some of it is unabashedly patriotic, some depicts the natural environment and some is definitely abstract — different perspectives by veterans living in western Massachusetts, who have all struggled with […]

Fresno Program Helps Veterans Go Back to School

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — In one classroom at Fresno State you will find papers and patriotism. “So now being in a smaller class you get the direct one-on-one attention that you really need in that transition, because going back to a classroom in a regular university with 300 kids in a hall, it would be […]

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Marines’ New Ads Target Millennials

SAN DIEGO — The Marine Corps no longer needs just a “Few Good Men” as it looks to diversify. The elite force — embroiled in a scandal of online nude photo sharing — is highlighting how its warriors are also good citizens in an ad campaign aimed at millennials. In one scene of the TV […]

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Sen. Warren Questions Hiring of For-Profit Officials

Updated with response from Education Department. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is asking Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to explain the hiring of two officials with ties to the for-profit-college industry, questioning their roles and potential conflicts of interest. Warren, a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, sent a letter to DeVos […]

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DeVos Decision Benefits Firm Tied to Aide Who Quit

Americans who default on some of their federal student loans are likely to pay more after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos reversed an Obama administration directive limiting some fees. But it turns out the Trump administration decision has some beneficiaries—including the father of a key DeVos lieutenant who just quit. DeVos’s decision, announced Thursday in a […]

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Ventura Leads Calif. Move to Serve Student Veterans

VENTURA – The Ventura County Community College District Veterans Resource Center Coordinators from Moorpark College, Oxnard College and Ventura College met with managers from California Lutheran University, California State University, Channel Islands, and National University to discuss best practices for helping student veterans achieve success. Leading the discussion was VCCCD Trustee Larry Kennedy, Chancellor Bernard […]

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Wisconsin Rep. Offers Fellowship

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Sean Duffy (R-WI) is seeking a Wounded Warrior or medically retired veteran for a position at his Hudson office. The person chosen for the special fellowship will work with constituents to handle military and veterans-related casework and act as a facilitator between constituents and federal, state, and local agencies. Read More

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