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Veterans Renew Efforts to Limit For-Profits Use of GI Bill

Veterans groups are redoubling their efforts to restrict how much money for-profit colleges can accept from student veterans’ tuition payouts after indications that the industry is becoming even more reliant on their education benefits to stay in business. On Thursday, a group of Democratic senators reintroduced legislation to close the “90/10 loophole” in federal funding […]

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New Allegations: Senator Groped Army Woman on U.S.O. Tour

WASHINGTON (AP) — Embattled Minnesota Sen. Al Franken is facing a new allegation of inappropriately touching a woman after an Army veteran accused him of groping her during a USO Christmas tour in the Middle East more than a decade ago. Stephanie Kemplin, 41, of Maineville, Ohio, told CNN in report Thursday that Franken had […]

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California Sues For-Profit School over ‘False Promises’

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s attorney general has sued an online, for-profit university, alleging officials made false promises to entice students and illegally tried to collect their overdue debt. The suit filed November 29 by Attorney General Xavier Becerra against San Diego-based Ashford University alleges the school and its publicly traded parent company, Bridgepoint Education Inc., […]

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“Reverse GI Bill”

In June of 1944, President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the GI Bill, a bipartisan effort spearheaded by the American Legion to provide benefits for returning veterans. By 1956, 7.8 million vets had used the GI Bill for their education. In many ways, this legislation became the engine of economic growth in post-war America. It […]

Report: Many Military Spouses Jobless

Spouses of U.S. service members say they continue to face numerous barriers to employment near duty stations, including Onslow County. A new survey released last week by Blue Star Families – a nonprofit organization supporting military families through resources for careers, deployment, and quality-of-life activities – revealed 55 percent of military spouses are underemployed. Those […]

GW Military Office Director Steps Down

A top veterans affairs official at the University has resigned. Victoria Pridemore, the associate director of military and veterans student services, decided to step down earlier this month and officially left her post last week, University spokeswoman Lindsay Hamilton said Monday. Officials did not previously announce her resignation. Hamilton said there is no interim associate […]

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Administrator Says Merchant Marine Academy Is Back on Track

The U.S. Maritime Administrator last week issued a statement announcing full accreditation of the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The news brings (at least part of) the drama being experienced by the nation’s only federal maritime academy to an end. The school had been […]

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Ashford Student Veterans Caught Up in Bureaucracy

Veterans enrolled in an online university are caught in an escalating dispute involving the school, the Department of Veterans Affairs and state regulators in what school officials say is a campaign by Obama administration holdovers in Washington and their liberal allies to undermine for-profit universities. Ashford University announced this month that it was temporarily suspending […]

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Soldiers Who Extend Service Could Get Bonuses

Soldiers who have the option of leaving the Army before October could land a big pile of money if they stay in — six figures for just 12 more months, in some cases, as well as choice assignments or schools when possible. The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act requires the active Army to get up […]

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Army Plans to Recruit 80,000 in 2018

The Army is looking at another end strength increase in 2018, and, this time, the focus will be on recruiting new soldiers, the service’s top enlisted leader said Monday. Following a 26,000-person increase in 2017, the Army has asked for another 17,000 for the total force this coming year. The plan is to focus most […]

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Military Times Lists 218 “Best Colleges”

There may not be a big-eared mouse or giant castle on the campus of Tarrant County College in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, but the faculty and staff want students to feel like they’re at Disney World. For Assistant Director of Student Development Services Eddie Brassart, that means “walking the talk” and providing “aggressively” friendly customer […]

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Exploiting Veterans

Despite efforts by Congress, the Obama administration and state attorneys general to stop the predatory practices of for-profit colleges, veterans and service members who rely on funding from the G.I. bill and the Defense Department to attend school are still being targeted by an industry infamous for saddling people with debt and useless degrees. A […]

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