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Lawmakers Offer Act to Expand Military Education

(U.S. Senate) – U.S. Senator Jon Tester, Ranking Member of the Veterans Affairs Committee, and Senators Al Franken (D-Minn.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) today are introducing legislation to ensure that America’s veterans have access to educational opportunities. The Senators’ Educational Development (ED) for Troops and Veterans Act will […]

College Staff Take Course in Military Competency

February 28, 2017 —With about 20 percent of its students connected to the military, Texas A & M University, San Antonio, recently took an extraordinary step: It became the first college in the United States to require all faculty and staff to take “military competency” training. As part of its mission to be “military embracing,” […]

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Stanford Expands Veterans’ Programs

After serving six years in the U.S. Army, including five deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Cole Moses knew that the transition to academic life – as an MBA student at Stanford Graduate School of Business – would be tough. Still, even before he arrived on campus Moses knew he could rely on two organizations for […]

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Scholar Rates For-Profit Schools as “Lower Ed”

Tressie McMillan Cottom studies for-profit colleges as a sociologist at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has analyzed large data sets, scrutinized financial filings, interviewed students and staff. But she has also helped enroll students at two different for-profits herself. They’re not named, but known only as “Beauty College” and “Technical College” in her new book, Lower […]

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Norfolk Grad Promoted to Brigadier General

Norfolk State University alumnus, Col. Fletcher V. Washington, Class of ’92, will be promoted to the rank of brigadier general in a ceremony today in Springfield, Virginia. A native of Fredericksburg, Washington served four years enlisted in the Army National Guard as a 12B combat engineer, before graduating cum laude from Norfolk State with a […]

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SUNY Chancellor Praises Free-Tuition Plan

Nancy L. Zimpher, chancellor of The State University of New York, today published a message to the New York State community on college affordability, addressing concerns raised about Governor Cuomo’s Excelsior Scholarship Program. Chancellor Zimpher’s message is as follows: “As SUNY chancellor for the last eight years, I have seen many landmark education policies come […]

Virginia Expands Cybersecurity Training for Veterans

Roughly three months after it began, Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s Cyber Vets Virginia initiative to retrain veterans to work in the tech sector is expanding with the addition of two academies this spring, said state officials who hope the program will grow even further. Announced on Veterans Day 2016, the Virginia governor’s plan focuses on filling […]

Gift Will Enhance Veterans’ Services at the Citadel

The Citadel announced a substantial gift from celebrated Charleston entrepreneur and philanthropist Tommy Baker and his wife, Victoria. In recognition of their generosity, the college will name its business program the Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business at The Citadel. It is the largest cash gift ever made to the college’s business program, and […]

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How Long Will Bump in For-Profit Stocks Last?

The oft-scrutinized for-profit education industry may see less scrutiny in coming years and investors are taking notice. For-profit college stocks are seeing an especially strong lift from the rising Trump tide that’s boosted the broader market, with sector leaders DeVry, Grand Canyon Education and Strayer all outperforming the S&P 500 by more than 15% since […]

Program Trains Veterans for Future in Farming

A growing number of veterans are looking to agriculture for their next career and entrepreneurial opportunity. It’s what brought dozens of veterans and active duty military recently to the parking lot of the Hillsborough County Agricultural Extension Service in Seffner. Shortly after sunrise, they boarded a bus for the Military Farm Tour sponsored by the […]

4 Facts About Student Veterans

The popular myth that student veterans don’t perform well doesn’t stand up to the facts. We took Fallujah. We know more than a decade of war. Why then do so many articles bemoan the challenges veterans face attending college? Veterans are completing tougher degrees with higher grades at better colleges than many might guess. Sure, […]

Study: Veterans Out-Perform Other Students

Despite often having to juggle schoolwork with jobs and families, veterans attending college under the Post-9/11 GI Bill are finishing at rates slightly higher than their classmates, a new report shows. The report says 53.6 percent of veterans using GI Bill benefits who arrived on campus in the fall of 2009 had graduated within six […]

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