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Academics

Forbes Launches Online Learning Business

On June 6, Forbes, the online publication best known for letting executives share their views on everything from personal finance to training, launched Learn@Forbes. The new eLearning platform will offer 60 self-paced courses for aspiring professionals who want to learn more about leadership, entrepreneurship, business, sales, IT, cybersecurity, and software. Read More

Policy

Air Force Officer Vanished 35 Years Ago, Faked Identity

A Kirtland Air Force Base officer with top security clearance who disappeared 35 years ago has been found in California. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations said in a news release this week that William Howard Hughes Jr., was apprehended at his home after a fraud investigation involving a fake identity he had been […]

Academics

Should Schools, Jobs for Spouses Factor into Troop Location?

A high-level Defense Department council has elevated the issues of military spouse employment and quality of education for military children to the attention of Secretary Jim Mattis, recommending that these factors be important considerations when making strategic basing or mission alignment decisions. The DoD Military Family Readiness Council, which voted Wednesday to include the recommendation […]

Academics

Army Scouts Urban Headquarters Near Academia, Tech Innovators

The U.S. Army is scouting large cities to find a home for a new command headquarters so it will be close to academia and industry, a first for the service. The Army typically likes to put its facilities away from population centers because there is space to train in rural areas and operations won’t disrupt […]

Other News

Film Documents For-Profit Colleges’ Abuse of Veterans, Others

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — After serving four years in the military, John Andrews, 42, adjusted to civilian life by working at his local Walmart in Arkansas. Encouraged by co-workers, he also went back to school, hoping to move up in management. Instead, he ended up $40,000 in debt,* with a diploma so useless he refuses to […]

Veterans

N.M. Joins Troops-to-Teachers to Meet Shortage

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The state is now participating in the ‘Troops to Teachers’ initiative.   It helps military service members and veterans transition into careers as teachers.  New Mexico was awarded nearly half a million dollars in federal funding for the program.  While the program has been around since 1993, it’s the first time […]

Academics

Virginia Gets $19 M Grant to Recruit More Veterans as Teachers

Virginia will be putting an additional $1.9 million toward recruiting veterans to serve as teachers. Gov. Ralph Northam announced a five-year grant from the Department of Defense that will provide $380,000 annually to the Troops to Teachers Virginia Center at the College of William & Mary. Read More

Academics

Texas A&M Maritime Academy Seeks Bigger Ship

GALVESTON, Texas — For 12 years, cadets at Texas A&M University at Galveston have not exactly had a ship to call their own. The Galveston County Daily News reports that since the departure of the Texas Clipper II in 2005, the school hasn’t had a training ship large enough to accommodate all the 300 or […]

Academics

Military Spouses Find Opportunities in Multilevel Marketing

According to data from the White House and the Department of Defense, there are nearly 690,000 spouses of active-duty service members, 12 percent of whom are active-duty military themselves. The unemployment rate for military spouses over the past decade has hovered between 20 and 25 percent, four times the rate for adult women. At the […]

Academics

MOOCs: Andrew Ng Teaches More Students Than Anyone

One selling point of MOOCs (massive online open courses) has been that students can access courses from the world’s most famous universities. The assumption—especially in the marketing messages from major providers like Coursera and edX—is that the winners of traditional higher education will also end up the winners in the world of online courses. But […]

Veterans

Veteran Joblessness Trending Downward

In May 2018, veteran unemployment is down slightly at 3.4 percent, according to data published by the U.S. Department of Labor. This compares to the national unemployment rate of 3.8 in May 2018, published by the National Conference of State Legislatures. This is more than a 20 percent decrease since 2016 and almost a 10 percent decrease since […]

Academics

Stanford Students Boycott Google Internships Over Military Drones

Student activist group the Stanford Solidarity Network (SSN) has released a petition calling on Google to pledge not to pursue any future contracts with the military, adding that until such a commitment is made, signatories will not pursue internships or postgraduate jobs with the tech giant. “We, students, pledge that we will … refuse to […]

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