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Troops to Teachers Eases Shortage for Schools

After a career spent serving their country on the battlefield, some veterans return home to serve in a different way: as teachers, training the young minds of America’s future leaders and thinkers. The skills and experiences veterans acquire during their service are incredibly useful within the classroom. Leadership, flexibility, adaptability, an understanding and appreciation of […]

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Lower Ed: Professor Argues That For-Profits Prey On the Vulnerable

There isn’t a concrete definition for the all-too-elusive American Dream. Ideas of this material utopia have different meanings to different people. Nevertheless, this U.S. fantasy has been heavily promoted by self-aggrandizing business and political leaders since America’s inception. From slave masters promising non-slave owners that they could become planters–owners of twenty or more slaves–to for-profit […]

Can Online Training Maintain Quality?

Today, we have access to high-speed internet in most parts of the world. Resultantly, we are seeing mainstream adoption of various trends, including the adoption of online training for students and employees around the globe. While text portals were popular for information consumption online in the past, there is increasingly a shift towards other forms […]

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Database Change Broadens View of Outcomes

One big flaw of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Database System (IPEDS) has been fixed. The U.S. Department of Education has revamped its higher education database to begin tracking non-traditional students — the ones who aren’t attending school full-time or aren’t entering college as freshmen right from high school — an additional 650,000 people. According to […]

Lawmaker Offers Apprenticeship Bill to Help With Transition

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — Rep. Beto O’Rourke has introduced a new bill aimed to make it easier for soldiers to find jobs outside of the military. He said the Veteran Apprenticeship and Labor Opportunity Reform (VALOR) Act is designed to help streamline apprenticeship programs for troops transitioning into civilian life. O’Rourke said it will […]

College Makes It Easier for Vets to Use Credits

Pellissippi State Community College is making it easier for military veterans to receive college credit for their experience. With a state $70,190 Veteran Reconnect grant, Pellissippi State plans by next fall to improve its process for veterans to know what credit they can receive before they enroll in college. Currently about 500 Pellissippi State students […]

2 Investigations Confirmed at Air Force Academy

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Cheating by more than a dozen freshman cadets on a test and alleged misconduct by members of the lacrosse team are under separate investigations at the Air Force Academy. The Colorado Springs Gazette reports the academy says 13 freshmen were accused of cheating on a test of basic Air Force knowledge. […]

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Research Examines Learning Potential

New Morgridge College of Education Assistant Professor of Research Methods and Information Science, Denis Dumas, recently published research that could potentially change the way educational researchers understand student learning capacity, and the way students are tested in school. The humble beginnings of a new testing model. “Dynamic Measurement Modeling: Using Nonlinear Growth Models to Estimate […]

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University of Colorado to End Course Fees

BOULDER, Colo. — The University of Colorado is eliminating all course and program fees starting in the fall of 2018. The Daily Camera reports that the eliminated fees will collectively save students $8.4 million per year. Chancellor Phil DiStefano announced the commitment to lowering costs for students at the university’s annual State of the Campus […]

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University Offers 3-Year Bachelor’s, 1-Year Master’s

There are two major barriers to completing a college degree and they are time and money, according to Paul Percy, provost and executive vice president at Carson-Newman University. “The longer people stay in school, the longer they have to keep finding ways to come up with money, to pay for school and for money to […]

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Apollo Global Biggest For-Profit Manager in the World

Back in 2013, the future looked bleak at academic publisher McGraw-Hill. They’d been around for over a century, but with the advent of digital technology, more and more course material was moving online. While they’d been the top dog in the academic publishing just a few years before, they agreed to a $2.4 bn buyout […]

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Ky. Community College in Position to Help Veterans Make Career Transition

Over the past five years, West Kentucky Community and Technical College has built a comprehensive support network for student veterans.

(Photo courtesy West Kentucky Community and Technical College.)

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