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Bridgepoint wants to Convert Its Colleges to Non-Profts

Sunday we wrote about the new gold rush in education: for-profit colleges converting to non-profit status, allowing them to shed the stigma and special regulatory requirements of for-profits, notably the federal 90-10 rule, while retaining parallel for-profit entities that could keep getting paid by the non-profit, and thus keep getting rich off an endless flow of […]

Syracuse First in U.S. to Offer Online Law Program

Syracuse University College of Law is launching the nation’s first fully interactive online juris doctor program. First class of up to 65 students will begin program in January of 2019. The American Bar Association granted SU College of Law a variance to offer this fully interactive online juris doctor program. The online J.D. was subject to […]

Syracuse Online Law Program

Navy Wants to Expand Seal Training in Parks

The Navy wants to step up special-operations training at state parks along Western Washington coastlines, releasing a proposal that would more than quintuple the number of sites. The Navy currently has a permit to conduct exercises at five state parks. The preferred option in a planning document calls for the possible use of 29 parks ranging from […]

Seal Training in Parks

Army Vet Who Killed 3 Had Lost License

The Army veteran who killed three caregivers at a Napa Valley rehabilitation center for soldiers was licensed by the state to work as a security guard and carry a pistol on his hip for nearly a decade, but he failed to renew the permits last year, records show. The lapse came as the former serviceman, […]

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Converting to Nonprofit

Participants at an upcoming invitation-only conference in the Washington DC area, entitled “Innovation and Public Private Partnership in Higher Education” (P3•EDU for short), will include Purdue University president Mitch Daniels and Graham Holdings chairman Donald Graham — fresh off the finalization of their troubling deal merging public Purdue and Graham’s for-profit Kaplan University. Also scheduled […]

Converting to Nonprofit

Military Officers Take Priorities to Capitol Hill

Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) will take veteran health care and benefit priorities to Capitol Hill this week. Retired Navy Cmdr. René A. Campos, MOAA’s senior director of government relations for veterans-wounded warrior care, will highlight veteran-facing priorities before the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs committees on March 14, 2018. “MOAA is committed to […]

Jobless Rates Fall for Veterans

WASHINGTON — The unemployment rates for black Americans, recent veterans and people in their early 20s fell sharply in February, even as the national jobless rate held steady at 4.1 percent. The rate for African-Americans fell to 6.9 percent, near a record low of 6.8 percent reached in December. Still, the unemployment rate for African-Americans […]

Jobless Rates for Vets

5 Midshipmen Face Discipline Over Drug Use

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Authorities at the U.S. Naval Academy have started a disciplinary process against five midshipmen for drug use and failure to report others’ illegal conduct. Academy spokesman Cmdr. David McKinney says the illicit drugs in question are cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine and hallucinogenic mushrooms. McKinney said in a Monday statement that administrative discipline could […]

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Vets’ Nursing B.S. Program Gets $100,000 Grant

The University of Michigan-Flint’s (UM-Flint) Veterans Bachelor of Science in Nursing (VBSN) program was recently awarded a $100,000 grant from Newman’s Own Foundation as part of its commitment to improve the lives of US military personnel, veterans, and their families. The grant will be used to develop and implement a Vet2Vet Support Specialist Program dedicated […]

Nursing Program Grant

Fort’s Program Links Service Members to Jobs

In her time as a navigator for the Military Corps Career Connect program, Denise Bourdeaux has linked more than 100 service members and military spouses with training for the civilian workforce. Now, she’s bringing her work to Fort Detrick with the help of program director Shauna Donahue and members of the Fort Detrick Alliance. Read […]

Fort Detrick Jobs

Armed Guard at VA Head’s Door Highlights Tentions

Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin has posted an armed guard outside his office as the department falls into a power struggle that is “killing the agency,” The Washington Post reports. VA appointees described the work environment as “toxic” and there have been reports of a coup within the agency, according to The Post, which […]

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Bill Would Allow Aid for Noncollege Options

WASHINGTON — Service members could use their military tuition assistance for training programs outside of traditional colleges and universities under legislation being introduced Monday in the House and Senate. The plan, offered by a bipartisan group of lawmakers in each chamber, would allow eligible troops to use the money for licensing, credentialing and certification programs […]

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