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Getting In

It’s admissions season, and across the country, thousands of admissions officers sit in front of screens, reading files full of transcripts, test scores, extracurricular profiles, letters of recommendation, and, of course, essays. I was once one of these officers, spending emotionally exhausting 12-hour days reviewing thousands of applications from Ivy League hopefuls over a span […]

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Dartmouth Business Program Helps Vets

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Paul Movizzo spent 30 years in the Navy as an aviator piloting an E-2C Hawkeye early warning radar detection plane, as well as commanding a team involved in electromagnetic warfare. But despite the high-pressure and leadership assignments — which included serving on the U.S. Embassy staff in Baghdad — Movizzo felt […]

Scholarships Available for Service Members, Vets, Families

This year, more than one million service members, veterans and their families are enrolled in college courses. With that in mind, the Virginia Advisory Council on Military Education (VA-ACME) continues a commitment to supporting education within the Virginia military community. We are pleased to announce that VA-ACME will award multiple $1,000 scholarships at the annual […]

Veteran Goes From Enlisted to Enrolled

On the top floor of Lowell Heiny Hall at Colorado Mesa University, the Student Veteran Services office strives to assist former military members throughout their college careers. Cody Kem, who served in the Navy from 2009 to 2014, works at Student Veteran Services and uses his own military experience to be a resource for other […]

Testimony: Put College Accountability First

Federal student aid is a deal between taxpayers, students, and institutions. When students don’t keep up their end of the bargain, the federal government hits them hard—wrecking their credit, docking their wages, or seizing their tax refunds or Social Security checks. But there’s almost no accountability when colleges break their promises or repeatedly fail to […]

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82nd Airborne Increases Transition Efforts

FORT BRAGG, NC — The 82nd Airborne Division hosted its third, “Paratroopers For Life,” forum inside the Division headquarters at Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 25, 2018. The Division, America’s Guard of Honor, launched the PFLF in December 2016 to assist Paratroopers that are separating from the U.S. Army with easier transitions to civilian life. Read […]

Report: Student Borrowing Drops, Grant Funding Rises

The 2015-2016 National Postsecondary Education Student Aid Study (NPSAS:16) showed an overall decline in student loan borrowing compared to its 2011-2012 counterpart, NPSAS:12. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) publishes this study every four years on financial aid, and it provides data on loans, grants, work-study, and other financial aid options from federal, state, […]

California Online College Targets Working Adults

To open up access to higher education for more people, the California Community College system and Governor Jerry Brown are looking to launch an online-only community college. The college would be designed to serve working adults who want to upgrade their skill set or complete a post-secondary program but for whom personal responsibilities or distance […]

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Military “Myths” Hinder Recruitment

Seventeen years of war, TV spots depicting the struggles of wounded warriors, and curbs on military advertising budgets have left the armed forces with an image problem that could take years to repair, said a senior Defense official. Unsettling myths about the military are rising among recruit-age youth and “influencers” — parents, teachers, clergy and […]

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Stop Abuses

In 2015, the collapse of the behemoth Corinthian Colleges, which had been taking in up to $1.4 billion in federal dollars annually, and the subsequent collapse of the giant ITT Tech cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and left thousands of students with enormous student loan debt and no degree or diploma to show […]

Startup Wants a Piece of Drone Market

WILMINGTON, Del. — A 2016 report from PwC priced the emerging global market for business services using drones at $127 billion. Drone sales are expected to eclipse $12 billion in 2021, a Business Insider report suggested in August. There’s a startup in Delaware looking to get a piece of the action. Founded by the husband […]

Seminar Helps Student Vets Shift into Gear

Showing that military veterans and other nontraditional students bring a wealth of real-world experience with them to college, T.K. Stoudt, who served in the Air Force for 32 years, is pursuing his doctorate in the University of Wyoming’s College of Education and teaching an innovative first-year seminar for incoming freshmen veterans. The class’s research component […]

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