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Minnesota Governor Pitches $62 Million Grant Program

More Minnesotans would get help paying for college under DFL Gov. Mark Dayton’s $62 million plan to expand the state’s grant program for low- and middle-income students. The proposal amounts to a small piece of the governor’s $46 billion, two-year budget proposal, which is now being considered by the state Legislature. But the governor’s office […]

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“Band of Brothers” Veteran/Teacher Dies

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (AP) – Edward Tipper, a World War II paratrooper who was portrayed in the HBO series “Band of Brothers,” has died. He was 95. He died Feb. 1 in the Denver suburb of Lakewood, said his daughter, Kerry Tipper. Edward Tipper was a member of the famed Easy Company, part of the 101st […]

Campus Opens Veterans’ Center

Dakota County Technical College student Nelson Newbill Jr. has been an active user of the campus’ Military and Veterans Service Center since he started taking classes in 2015, despite the fact that the location and size limited its usefulness for some students. Newbill said the old location for the veterans center was crowded, which could […]

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Horses Ease Veterans’ Trauma

LAWTON, Okla. — It is possible to ride the Appaloosas that Ric Jerez uses in his equine assisted therapy, but that’s not how it works. Rather, they help people in distress get better by just being themselves. In nature, horses are prey and humans are predators. Horses tend to be wary around humans and only […]

Quality of Online Programs Varies

To some students, a for-profit online degree program seems like a risky option. “I’ve seen a lot of reports for a lot of years about how for-profit schools have pretty much based their incomes on the ability for students to get federal financial aid,” says 30-year-old Matt Warner, a cybersecurity and information assurance master’s student […]

Admiral’s Name Replaces Calhoun’s at Yale

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — After years of debate, Yale University has announced that it will change the name of a residential college that honors a 19th century alumnus and former U.S. vice president who was an ardent defender of slavery. Yale trustees said the Ivy League university is renaming Calhoun College after trailblazing computer scientist […]

Healing Invisible Wounds

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — I’m an ambassador for the Air Force Wounded Warrior Program. As an ambassador, I’m an advocate for the program and I work in my local area to plan events which bring our wounded together. It’s a concept of family helping family. We are all in this great big Air Force […]

Military Spouse Wins Full Scholarship

Career Step, an online provider of career-focused education and professional training, and the National Military Family Association, a nonprofit that works to strengthen and protect military families, are pleased to announce military wife and mother Kathleen Brown as the third recipient of Career Step’s full-tuition scholarship in 2016. “I am excited that as my husband […]

Group Promotes Camaraderie for Veterans

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — On Feb. 8, General William Darby will turn 106. Born in Fort Smith in 1911, William Orlando Darby formed the first Army Ranger battalion during World War II. Known as “Darby’s Rangers,” it would evolve into the modern special forces group of U.S. Army Rangers. Darby’s Warrior Support is a Searcy-based, […]

Counseling Student Earns Job Working With Veterans

When University of Houston-Victoria graduate student Sarah Holland got an internship working at the Crossroads Area Veterans Center in Victoria, she didn’t expect it to lead to a full-time position. “I’m a Navy veteran, so I can relate to other veterans and their families,” said Holland, who lives in Victoria. “This job is a good […]

Texas AgriLife Offers Program for Entrepreneurs

The Texas AgrAbility program of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is introducing a new project to benefit military veterans interested in becoming farmers and ranchers. “In 2012, Texas AgrAbility developed Battleground to Breaking Ground: A Transformational Journey, a workshop to address four key areas of agriculture business: planning, rural business opportunities, the Texas AgrAbility […]

Teen Captures WWII Veterans’ Stories

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — While most 19-year-olds are enrolling in college, working their first full-time job or considering what’s next in life— keeping their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts buzzing 24/7 — Rishi Sharma is on a far different quest. The 19-year-old Californian has been interviewing at least one World War II combat veteran a day […]

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