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Thousands Sign Up for Berkeley Blockchain Training Online

UC Berkeley in 2016 saw the potential for teaching about blockchain with a primary focus on bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies the technology underpins. At the time, about 70 students signed up. Next month, the university will kick off an online professional certificate program for blockchain, a three-month, two-part course focusing on cryptocurrencies and permissioned […]

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25 Programs Bringing Veterans Into Agriculture

In honor of the Fourth of July, Food Tank is celebrating military veterans by highlighting 25 organizations around the United States that help veterans transition to healthy, meaningful civilian lives in agriculture. By providing a roadmap to a career in farming, these companies, NGOs, and universities are helping veterans translate their skills and discipline from […]

What Drives High Tuition for Online Programs

Most online college programs cost the same as on-campus alternatives. Some even cost more. There’s evidence that pricey online tuitions may be driven by hidden, expensive costs in designing, delivering and marketing those programs. Still, online programs at some schools are generating profit. Read More

Arms 2 Artisans Gives Transitioning Service Members a Future

When Torie Fisher finished her first combat tour of the Middle East, she, like many other young veterans, tried to find a job and establish new roots. Though the then-21-year-old had already carried more responsibilities than what most do in a lifetime, she didn’t have a degree, a professional certificate or any translatable skills. After quitting […]

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Law Would Veterans Keep Overpayments

The Department of Veterans Affairs has accidentally overpaid hundreds of thousands sending some into debt when the government agency asked them to pay it back. But, new legislation sponsored by Sen. Sherrod Brown aims to prevent that from happening in the first place. The U.S. Senate earlier this week passed Brown’s amendment to the Military […]

Judge Tosses California Suit Over Student Debt

SAN FRANCISCO — A U.S. judge threw out a lawsuit June 27 by the state of California accusing the Trump administration of illegally reneging on an Obama-era commitment to quickly forgive the loans of students defrauded by the Corinthian for-profit college chain. The state had failed to establish it had the right to bring the […]

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V.A. Nominee Hears Challenge to Fix Morale Crisis

Senate lawmakers told Robert Wilkie on Wednesday that he will face a workforce beset by poor morale if he is confirmed to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, and that he must fix the problem if he is to stabilize the troubled agency. “Of all the challenges we have at VA, morale may be the […]

School Surprises 92-year-old WWII Veteran With High School Diploma

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — A New Jersey township high school has surprised a 92-year-old World War II veteran with the high school diploma he would have earned if he hadn’t dropped out to join the Army. Vito Trause was presented with his “East Rutherford High School” diploma Wednesday, in a nod to Becton Regional High […]

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American Legion Looks to Modernize

KEARNEY, Neb. — The four families of the American Legion are coming together in Kearney this week as they hold their bi–annual state convention with a mission to take the organization into the future. The American Legion has a new mission in its fight to advocate for veterans and their families, and that mission is to […]

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Questions about Racism and Equity Embroil Coast Guard Academy

NEW LONDON, Conn. — At the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, officers-in-training spend four years together at a riverside campus steeped in shared values of honor, respect and devotion to duty. Yet for all the uniformity, many say the experience can feel vastly different for some minority cadets, compared with whites. African-American cadets, in particular, have […]

Graduate’s Walkout Over Military Sash Ban Touches Some Nerves

In 2016, just as Zachary Field was about to graduate from Orchard Park High School and get ready to join the Army, he called his father, David, with some troubling news: The school was not going to let him wear his military sash over his gown. David Field was not happy and shared his displeasure […]

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Oklahoma Looks to Troops-to-Teacher Program to Ease Gap

TULSA, Oklahoma – The Oklahoma Department of Education is hoping veterans can help fight our teacher shortage crisis. The program is called Troops to Teachers, it’s been around for decades, and Oklahoma is one of only a handful of states awarded more than a million dollars in grant money for the program. With this new […]

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