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House Passes Bill on Counseling for Student Borrowers

The full House on Wednesday afternoon passed the Empowering Students Through Enhanced Financial Counseling Act, H.R. 1635, which provides annual financial counseling for student loan borrowers. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said after the 406-4 vote that “college should be an opportunity for all those who want it. But with a complex federal financial aid system that […]

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Pentagon Changing ‘Up or Out’ Promotion Policy

The Pentagon has just been authorized to make changes to its officer promotion policy that would, among other actions, make it possible to stay on at one’s rank rather than face up-or-out promotion peril. There are nearly a quarter million commissioned officers in active duty in the U.S. military. Getting promoted to a higher rank […]

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Records: Ex-Naval Academy Professor Sent Shirtless Photos

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A U.S. Naval Academy official’s letter alerting a tenured professor of his termination says the professor sent students shirtless photos. The Washington Post reported that it obtained a copy of the Aug. 15 letter to 64-year-old ex-professor Bruce Fleming. Academic Dean and Provost Andrew T. Phillips also says in the letter Fleming […]

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Bill Aims to Protect Students from Worthless Degrees

WASHINGTON – As college students begin returning to class, Sens. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., introduced Thursday the Protecting Students from Worthless Degrees Act of 2018. They said it would close a loophole that allows for-profit colleges to take federal financial aid dollars for students to attend unaccredited degree programs that often leave students deep in […]

Education Groups Sue DeVos for Delaying Online Protections

Two teacher unions are suing the Education Department and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over the agency’s delay of rules meant to protect students earning degrees online. The California Teachers Association (CTA) and the National Education Association (NEA), along with a second grade teacher in Kansas, a fourth grade teacher in California, and a student enrolled in an […]

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Top Federal Student Loan Official Resigns in Protest

NEW YORK — The government’s top official overseeing the $1.5 trillion student loan market resigned in protest on Monday, citing what he says is the White House’s open hostility toward protecting the nation’s millions of student loan borrowers. Seth Frotman will be stepping down as student loan ombudsman at the end of the week, according […]

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U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps Members Seek Veteran Status

“Dear President Trump,” Kirksville resident Doris Kent began the letter she sent to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on June 6. “I’m a 91-year-old woman with Parkinson’s Disease and I wish to call to your attention a concern while I am still able. I believe that the women who served in the United States Cadet Nurse Corps […]

Army Reinstates Dozens of Discharged Immigrants

At least three dozen immigrant recruits who were booted from the U.S. Army after enlisting with a promised pathway to citizenship are being brought back to serve, according to court records filed Monday. Since Aug. 17, the U.S. Army has reinstated 32 reservists, and revoked discharge orders of another six enlistees who had sued. Another […]

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Lawyers: Discharged South Korean Army Specialist Granted US Citizenship

LOS ANGELES —A South Korean-born U.S. Army specialist who sued after the military moved to discharge her has been granted citizenship, her attorneys said Friday. Yea Ji Sea, 29, had filed a lawsuit last month demanding a response to her citizenship application. She came to the country as a child on a visitor visa and […]

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DOD Exempts Wounded from Separation Policy

Servicemembers wounded in combat will now be exempt from the new Department of Defense policy to be deployable in 12 months or face separation from the military. According to DOD Instruction 1332.45 (Retention Determinations for Non-Deployable Servicemembers), those servicemembers whose injuries were the result of hostile action, meet the criteria for awarding of the Purple […]

Leaving Military? Get Extra Time to Use Benefits

Those leaving the military will have more time to use free resources such as income tax help, nonmedical counseling, spouse employment assistance and other resources via Military OneSource, thanks to a provision in the defense authorization bill signed into law Monday by President Trump. Much of the information on MilitaryOneSource.mil is available to the general […]

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Law Gives Military Kids Sex Assault Protections on Bases

The Defense Department must improve the way it responds to child-on-child sexual assault at military bases in the U.S. and abroad as part of a sweeping new law President Donald Trump signed Monday. While the Pentagon began addressing sexual assault in the ranks a decade ago, an Associated Press investigation revealed that similar reports involving […]

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