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Vets Blast Service at College

LaGuardia Community College was once one of the best places for a student veteran. “Not to sound cliché, but it was euphoric,” said Kevin Chimilio, the former president of the student veterans club at the Long Island City campus. “We would hang out there all day, even when classes were over. It was great.” About […]

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Is the VA Doing Enough toward “Forever” G.I. Bill?

WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs will hire 200 temporary workers and shell out $70 million to implement a major expansion of veterans’ education benefits — a process beset by communication and information technology challenges, veterans advocates and VA officials said Tuesday. Higher-than-anticipated costs is one of a number of problems that the agency […]

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Whitening Academia

While a House Republican proposal to tax the tuition waivers of graduate students may not be among the highest-profile Trump-era assaults on people of color, it represents a serious threat to racial equality. If included in the final tax plan, it would disproportionately harm nonwhite graduate students and be disastrous for the already dismal diversity […]

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Grant Would Help Transition to Work

Acting on behalf of the Henry County Veteran’s Assistance Commission, Dorothy Meindok has completed and submitted an application for a grant under the ServiceIllinois department of the Illinois Department of Veteran’s Affairs. That agency will screen the applications and announce what applications have been accepted in January, 2018. If that hurdle is cleared, the ServiceIllinois […]

Take the Robot’s Class

How many of you fancy world-class education through MOOCs? If you are accustomed to online courses then it might be a piece of cake for you however many of us face difficulties with the virtual environment. In a bid to improve, the Michigan State University unleashed the first-ever robot-aided online learning which happens to improve […]

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Online Students Can Build In-Person Relationships

Even in an online degree program, whether you live close to the school’s campus or hundreds of miles away, you have ways to meet classmates, faculty and alumni in person. If your main hesitation in pursuing an online education is the fear of being isolated, know that you will likely have opportunities to engage with […]

Is MOOC Leader Alison the Answer to World’s Needs

With nearly 12 million registered learners, 1.5 million graduates, and 1,000 free courses, the first ever massive open online course (MOOC) Alison has become one of the world’s largest players in online education – and one of the world’s largest certifiers of educational and skills attainment. Founder Mike Feerick’s model for equal access to learning […]

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Skills Learned in Service Go a Long Way

Serving in the United States Armed Forces offers an experience like no other. Aside from the opportunity to work with incredibly dedicated people in locations most will never see, military service builds a unique range of skills that can help veterans find success after service. The skills our men and women in uniform gain during […]

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Army Cyber Command Eyes University Partnerships

ATHENS, Ga. — The University of Georgia and the U.S. Army’s Cybersecurity Command could soon be exchanging students and workers. A civilian Army official, Ronald Pontius, says the command would take up University of Georgia Vice President for Research David Lee’s offer during a UGA conference on informatics, or big data. Pontius is deputy to […]

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For-Profit Colleges May Be Headed for a Boom

The Trump administration seems determine to unravel much of what the Obama administration did, including its crackdown on predatory for-profit colleges which was aimed at protecting students as well as as the federal student aid system. This post explains what and how it is attempting to do this. It was written by Spiros Protopsaltis, a […]

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Killing the Future

We are witnessing the death of the information age. There is a continued assault on education from this administration and its cronies. Efforts to privatize and silo education, tax graduate students for their education benefits, and the looming threat of net neutrality reversal, all seem to take aim at learners, benefiting the pockets of some […]

Veteran Joblessness Rose in November

After two months of record lows, veteran unemployment ticked upward last month, according to the latest U.S. labor statistics released Friday. Four percent of veterans were unemployed in November, marking the second highest unemployment rate of 2017 since January’s 4.5 percent. Bureau of Labor Statistics data also show unemployment among post-9/11 veterans rose by 1 […]

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