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Marines Recruit from Women’s Sports Teams

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — The U.S. Marine Corps is looking for a few more good women. And this time the campaign is a bit different. Marine recruiters are turning to girls’ high school sports teams to find candidates who may be able to meet the Corps’ rigorous physical standards, including for the front-line […]

Grand Canyon Education Separates Itself from the Pack

Grand Canyon Education Inc. (Nasdaq: LOPE) continues to separate itself from the pack as other for-profits continue to struggle. The Phoenix-based operator of Grand Canyon University reported increased revenue, net income and enrollment for the second quarter. GCU reported $27.6 million in net income on $191.3 million in net revenue for the second quarter ended […]

Veterans Museum and Education Center Finds a Home

After years of searching for a permanent home for this Veterans Museum and Education Center, Ormond Beach resident John Brinkley finally has a new address for his collection of items honoring those who served. I just a few months, the center will be 166 S. Beach St. in Daytona Beach, on the second floor of […]

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CEO Makes Long-Term Care Priority for Wounded Warriors

The Wounded Warrior Project is about to get more low-key, but more effective, for veterans, said its new CEO, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Linnington. “We are shifting a bit,” said Linnington, who came onboard after the charity’s previous CEO was criticized for spending too much on fundraising and lavish retreats instead of on services […]

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Adult Learner Enrollment Rising

Adult learners are expected to grow as a major part of the undergraduate enrollment population in the next nine years, a data point that will require financial and structural adjustments from institutions and states. More flexible scheduling in courses, unique options for billing and additional credentialing opportunities for industry-specific majors are all accommodations adult learners […]

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Sports Camp Challenges Veterans

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Marine veteran Joyce Ralph sometimes stays at home in Massachusetts instead of going for a bike ride or doing other things she likes to do. She feels too anxious because of her post-traumatic stress disorder. Army veteran Paul Miosek sometimes feels isolated at his home in New York. No one else he […]

‘Boot Camp’ Prepares Military Vets for College

To prepare post-9/11 veterans to the demands of an academic environment, the Warrior-Scholar Project was launched, and the University of Arizona is this week hosting more than a dozen veterans in an immersive, academic boot camp. Earlier this year, the Warrior-Scholar Project named the UA and others, including Georgetown University, Harvard University and Yale University, […]

VFW Scholarship Aids Veterans and Families at Minnesota

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5039 recently created a scholarship for veterans and their families at the University of Minnesota, Morris. New for 2016–17, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5039 of Morris Scholarship has been designated for a veteran, the son or daughter of a veteran, or the grandson or granddaughter of a veteran […]

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Benefit for Disabled Vets Begins in November

By Kellie Lunney | The Office of Personnel Management on Friday will publish the final rule implementing a law that gives new federal employees who are disabled veterans the equivalent of a full year’s sick leave up front to go to their medical appointments. The 2015 Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act gives 104 hours of […]

Protect Higher Education for Our Veterans

Following more than a decade of fighting asymmetric conflicts on multiple fronts, many veterans today face an entirely new dilemma on a very different terrain. While transitioning from military to civilian life, millions of veterans consider taking advantage of their GI Bill benefits to further their education. The Post-9/11 GI Bill — enacted in 2008 […]

Injured Marine Finds Healing in Woodworking

Retired Gunnery Sgt. Ernesto Aquino was wounded 12 years ago during his fifth deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan and came home with back injuries that left him wheelchair bound with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. He was close to taking his life, but the thought of his children without a father held him […]

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Increasing Adjunct Faculty

By Ashley A. Smith | Student success initiatives tend to work better on campuses where faculty members are engaged. So Achieving the Dream, the nonprofit organization that advocates for institutional improvement at community colleges, is unveiling a new initiative that will help part-time faculty members become more active in their colleges’ reform efforts, with the […]

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