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4 Facts About Student Veterans

The popular myth that student veterans don’t perform well doesn’t stand up to the facts. We took Fallujah. We know more than a decade of war. Why then do so many articles bemoan the challenges veterans face attending college? Veterans are completing tougher degrees with higher grades at better colleges than many might guess. Sure, […]

Study: Veterans Out-Perform Other Students

Despite often having to juggle schoolwork with jobs and families, veterans attending college under the Post-9/11 GI Bill are finishing at rates slightly higher than their classmates, a new report shows. The report says 53.6 percent of veterans using GI Bill benefits who arrived on campus in the fall of 2009 had graduated within six […]

Massachusetts Provides Grants to Aid Veterans

The state is helping hundreds of veterans by awarding $350,000 in grants to four Massachusetts organizations. The grant funding will go to Community Legal Aid, Inc., in Worcester; Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center in Gardner; The Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School in Boston; and Veterans Legal Services in Boston, Attorney General Maura Healey’s office […]

Student Veterans to Lobby for Centers

The veterans resource center is planning a trip to the Capitol in Sacramento on March 8 to have students “tell their stories” and encourage legislators to keep funding the California community college veterans resource centers. The Sacramento trip will have student veterans representation from all 113 community colleges in the state. More student veterans receive […]

Many Women Veterans End Up Homeless

We’re sitting in Rosie Palfy’s living room, outside of Cleveland, in a house she’s just been able to purchase after VA finally settled her disability claim, after almost nine years of delays and detours. I’m having her read through the almost 400 comments women veterans left in response to my original survey about housing issues […]

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Montana Senator’s Bill Would Enhance GI Benefits

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester rolled out a proposal to bolster higher education opportunities for veterans and plugged a pair of bills targeting rural teacher shortages at Montana State University Billings on Monday. The Rural Educator Support and Training Act and the Native Educator Support and Training Act were first introduced by Tester in 2015. Both […]

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Navy Veteran Will Head Cybersecurity Campus

DENVER, Colo. (PRWEB) SecureSet Academy today announced that Commander Abe Thompson (US Navy, Ret.) has been named director of the Academy’s new cybersecurity education programs in Colorado Springs. Thompson served in numerous Cyberwarfare, Information Warfare and Cryptologic roles for the Fleet from 1989-2013. His Special Warfare Navy Cyber Sailors received recognition for bringing Navy Cyber […]

Veteran/Student Launches Literary Journal

DES MOINES, Iowa — Danny Judge stayed up all night at his wife’s bedside with his laptop open. Sarah was undergoing treatment at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines. Her mouth was blistering from aggressive chemotherapy. Her “pregnancy,” it turns out, was cancerous cells. “He’d stay there, working all night, then go get our son […]

Wounded Warriors CEO: Recovery Will Take Years

Wounded Warrior Project’s well-known logo shows one solider carrying a fallen comrade to safety. For the past year, the Jacksonville-based charity has dealt with its own financial wounds after national media reports plunged it into a touch-and-go period marked by a nose-dive in donations and staff cutbacks. The worst of the fallout has passed, but […]

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Bill Would Let GI Benefits Cover Application Fees

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02) and Republican Rep. Luke Messer (IN-06) are working to reduce the financial burden on veterans seeking higher education by making application fees eligible under the Post 9/11 GI Bill. “Veterans should not miss out on higher education because of the cost of application fees,” said Larsen, a senior member on […]

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Missouri College Recruiting Veterans

(West Plains) – Area veterans interested in using their Military Education Benefits to earn a college degree from Missouri State University-West Plains are invited to visit the university’s Veterans Incentive Program (VIP) Center on March 9 to learn more about the university and the process involved. No appointment is necessary. Veterans can drop by the […]

Event Will Let Veterans Test Out of Courses

The Fort Rucker Education Center exists to help Soldiers looking to further their careers through higher education and an upcoming event will allow them the chance to earn free college credits. The education center will hold its CLEP-a-thon Feb. 28 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the first floor of Bldg. 4502 as a […]

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