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Ruling Clears the Way for Graduate Students to Unionize

Graduate students at private institutions can now form unions, according to a 3-1 decision from the National Labor Relations Board, which redefines working and educational relationships between students and institutions. The United Auto Workers, who petitioned for representation on behalf of graduate assistants at Columbia University, successfully argued that a working relationship with an institution […]

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SAMS Earns Joint Education Accreditation

The U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies’ Advanced Strategic Leadership Studies Program has been accredited to grant Joint Professional Military Education Level II credit through 2019. The announcement was made in a memorandum from the Defense Department director for Joint Force Development to the commandant of the Command and General Staff College. Read More

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Oregon Expo Will Help Veterans Learn about Benefits

The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs’ second annual Veteran Benefit Expo will be held Sept. 8 at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. The event brings together close to 100 federal, state and local providers of programs and services that benefit veterans and their families. Read More

Summit Highlights Challenges for Student Veterans

DANVERS — Instead of recalling the fog of war, a group of college veterans spoke about the support they have received and the fog of trying to navigate their school and their veterans benefits, during a Veterans Education Summit held at North Shore Community College Wednesday. The daylong summit brought together representatives from 22 state […]

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Veterans Center Starts Textbooks to Troops Program

University of Southern Mississippi senior Ashley Thames, a member of the Air Force Reserve and a nursing student, said a new program called Textbooks for Troops will help her save money on the nursing textbooks she needs to complete her education. “It will be helpful”, she said. “We spend a lot of money on tuition. […]

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A Veteran Makes His Own Success Story

Measuring success is much more than quantifiable and qualitative results. Depending on a person’s culture success could be defined with several different meanings. Business success may be determined by revenue, success on the battlefield is determined by victory. But, how does a person measure personal success? “Success is to be measured not so much by […]

Mental Health Aid Helps Veterans in Transition

Military service teaches resilience, responsibility, teamwork and persistence — traits that translate well into the civilian business world. But the chain of command, the path to promotion and the freedom to make your own decisions are very different in the military versus civilian settings, and that can be daunting to service men and women transitioning […]

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Preparation Is Key for Army Reserve Retirement

VICENZA, Italy – The 7th Mission Support Command hosted the 99th Regional Support Command Retirement Services Office bi-annual preretirement brief Aug. 20, 2016. The 99th RSO briefs U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard military retirees and potential military retiree communities across Europe about USAR and NG retirement benefits and services twice a year with the […]

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Michigan Tech Recognized as Veteran Friendly

HOUGHTON — Michigan Tech is the gold standard in many areas of academics. Now they are also getting recognized for helping veterans. Michigan Tech is now a gold-level Veteran-Friendly school, the recognition coming from the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency. Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency Director James Redford said, “There are seven standards that we measure against […]

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DOE Looks to Lobbyists for Accountability

Even as the Department of Education works to shut down sketchy for-profit colleges and chastises the organizations responsible for determining if a school should receive federal dollars, they want to let even more for-profits into the system. In their new experiment, the Department wants to prove that new “Quality Assurance Entities” (QAEs) can monitor schools […]

Initiative to Boost Low-Income Students’ Access to Higher Ed

The U.S. Department of Education has announced that it will allow students to apply for federal aid to enroll in “non-traditional” training programs that partner with colleges and universities, as part of a broader effort to increase their ability to enroll in higher education. The department invited eight institutions of higher education to participate in […]

Top Colleges Sit on Their Money

A new report from the Education Trust concludes that our top colleges are being too stingy. Specifically, it examines private nonprofit institutions with endowments above $500 million and finds that many of them are underspending endowment assets, plowing their returns back into the money bin rather than using them to defray educational expenses for students. […]

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