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Center for Student-Veterans Opens at Kansas State University

MANHATTAN, Kan. — A new, private center on the Kansas State University campus aiming to help veterans transition into student life has opened. The Military Affairs Innovation Center opened September 12, The Manhattan Mercury reports. Art DeGroat, director of the university’s Office of Military and Veteran Affairs, says the center will work with other agencies […]

Senate Democrats Call for Action on Student Debt

Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) held a conference call Wed., Sept. 14 with The Racquet and other college newspapers in order to spread the word on the #InTheRed Act. The proposed legislation was created in January and would work to address the student debt crisis. The Senate […]

Norwich Joins Plan to Help Families Save Tuition Costs

NORTHFIELD, Vt., Sept. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Norwich University, the nation’s oldest private military college and birthplace of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), has joined Private College 529 Plan, a consortium of 284 colleges that guarantees a locked-in tuition rate for prospective students. College savings and pre-paid tuition plans, called 529 plans, are offered […]

Minnesota Finds 2 Schools Defrauded Students

More than 100 Rochester students may be affected by a state of Minnesota ruling that Minnesota School of Business and Globe University fraudulently marketed and recruited students. The Minnesota Office of Higher Education is moving to revoke the schools’ authorization to operate at its six locations throughout the state after a Hennepin County District Judge […]

Virginia Launches Online Portal for ITT Tech Students

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia has created a new online portal to help students impacted by the closure of the for-profit college chain ITT Technical Institute. The website includes information about where students can seek loan forgiveness or continue their education at another institution. ITT shuttered all 130 of its U.S. campuses earlier this month, saying […]

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Sources: ITT Educational Services Plans Bankruptcy

For-profit U.S. college operator ITT Educational Services Inc is preparing to file for bankruptcy after the U.S. government restricted financial aid to new students, according to people familiar with the matter. ITT’s move comes after it said last week it would shut its 137 technical college campuses in 39 states, where roughly 35,000 students are […]

What Comes After the For-Profits’ “Lehman Brothers” Moment?

Just as the fall of Lehman Brothers in 2008 heralded a much larger economic crash, the September shuttering of the ITT Technical Institute chain of for-profit colleges signals a broad crisis in higher education. ITT, which taught electronics, computer-based design, criminal justice and other careers to 45,000 Americans last year, had collected $5 billion in […]

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Education Department Releases College Scorecard Data

The Obama Administration has released new data and metrics for its college scorecard system, designed to help families understand the value of higher ed spending based upon graduation rates, job attainment and other areas of institutional merit. Like many ranking systems, the federal college scorecard ranks elite colleges and universities high for upper-tier scores in […]

College Requires Cultural Competency on Military Issues

When Daniel Rendon walked onto campus for the first time and saw all the other students lounging around laughing, listening to music, playing Hacky Sack, he felt completely out of place. After five years in the military, and some time trying to make ends meet with construction jobs that ended with a literal crash when […]

Help Available for Displaced ITT Students

In the aftermath of ITT Technical Institute’s abrupt shutdown in early September, more than 40,000 students were summarily bereft of their school and left with potentially unusable credits. The closure of all 136 ITT Tech campuses occurred practically overnight, one week into the new semester. While the school’s closure is certainly disruptive to students’ lives […]

N.Y. to Expedite Military Spouses’ Professional Licenses

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a law to expedite the professional licensing of the spouses of military personnel on active duty who are transferred to New York. The law, effective in 180 days, will apply to military spouses who have “substantially equivalent” licenses “in good standing” to practice in other states. It […]

ViaSat, Veterans Team Up to Offer Electronic Assembly Course

CARLSBAD, CA — MiraCosta College has partnered with the Veterans Association of North County and Carlsbad-based ViaSat to create a new Electronic Assembly Course that will benefit those who are transitioning from the military for jobs as electronic assemblers at an advanced manufacturing company. The course, which is being offered by MiraCosta College’s Community Education […]

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