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University’s “Paws for Patriots” Calms Transitioning Students

Gary Crispell often feels anxious. The University of Southern Mississippi Ph.D. student said it started when he was a Navy Seabee, with deployments to Iraq in 2008 and Okinawa in 2009-10. Crispell, who is studying molecular biology, calls his feelings generalized anxiety disorder. Read More

Fort Hood to Host Huge Job Fair

Fort Hood Soldier for Life–Transition Assistance Program will bring together employers looking to hire soldiers, veterans and military family members at the semi-annual Summer Mega Career Fair at Club Hood from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on June 19. The job fair is free and open to all job seekers — to include Army civilian […]

“Taps”? Bring a Boombox; Buglers Are Scarce

DUBUQUE, Iowa — After Richard Cowart’s father died in 1999, he expected a dignified military funeral for the military veteran. The service was “superb,” he said, “until somebody turned on the boombox.” Since a live bugler was unavailable to play “Taps,” the honor guard overseeing the service used a recording. “It was scratchy with the […]

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DeVos Dystopia

With Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos having turned over her Department’s policies to lobbyists for the very predatory colleges that have ripped off students and taxpayers for billions of dollars, many of the bad actors in the for-profit college industry have accelerated a wave of conversions to non-profit status, aimed at freeing them from the […]

Grand Canyon U. Rebuts Testimony from Hearing

On May 24, 2018, the National Advisory Council on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) convened a hearing on the topic of “Oversight of For-Profit Institutions’ Conversions to Non-Profit Entities.” As subsequently reported in various media accounts, the hearing quickly devolved into a one-sided, partisan attack on the for-profit education sector, promulgated by a lineup of […]

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Avoiding Burnout

There are lots of benefits for establishing a career in the military for both the service and for servicemembers. From the service’s perspective, a lot of time and money is spent to screen candidates and provide them with proper training. In addition, servicemember longevity means that the valuable experience and technical expertise that servicemembers accumulate […]

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Connecticut Gets $1.1 M to Turn Veterans Into Teachers

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The federal government has awarded Connecticut a $1.1 million grant to help military veterans become school teachers. The funding, announced Friday, comes from a U.S. Department of Defense program known as Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support. It will provide service members transitioning into civilian life and those who’ve already left […]

Professor Unearths, Publishes Poetry of WWII Soldiers

Robert A. Shearer, retired criminal justice professor of Sam Houston State University, is a literary archaeologist. He uncovers the past, something forgotten after 70 years. In a Texas A&M Library in College Station, he uncovered hundreds of poems written by U.S. Army military personnel during World War II, while looking for information for a […]

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Colorado’s New Policy Will Allow Military, Others Credit for Experience

BALTIMORE – Military and veteran students now can get college credit for career experience and knowledge through DSST ® prior learning assessments (PLAs), due to a policy expansion by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) earlier this month. This change in policy provides Colorado citizens, including the over 400,000 military veterans who reside there, […]

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For-Profit Colleges Seek Nonprofit Status

WASHINGTON—Ashford University is one of more than a dozen for-profit colleges across the country looking to become nonprofit institutions, a change that would make them subject to less federal oversight and shed the often-maligned “for-profit” designation. Switching “to nonprofit status will allow Ashford University to…be judged and measured as colleges and universities should be—on their […]

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Trump’s Pick for V.A. Boosts Hopes for Reform

President Trump’s selection of Robert Wilkie to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is being praised by veterans groups as a safe, stabilizing move in the aftermath of the failed nomination of former White House physician Ronny Jackson. Wilkie, who is serving as acting VA secretary, is a Washington insider with years of administrative experience […]

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Court: U.S. Violated Privacy Law in For-Profit Fraud Cases

WASHINGTON — A federal court has ruled that the Education Department violated privacy laws with regard to students defrauded by the Corinthian for-profit college chain. In a break with Obama administration policy, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced in December that some students cheated by the now-defunct schools would only get a part of their federal […]

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