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PAVE Program Assists Veterans in Campus

The University of Michigan Health System and the Student Veterans of America have developed a peer-to-peer program to assist veterans with campus support. The Peer Advisors for Veteran Education (PAVE) program was developed in Michigan and has been fully implemented at 12 schools across the country. This fall 30 more schools nationwide will be joining […]

States Offer Veterans Benefits

Everyone knows about the federal benefits available to veterans, but did you know many states also offer great benefits to their veterans? State benefits range from free college and employment resources to free hunting and fishing licenses. Most states also offer tax breaks for their veterans and specialized license plates, some states even provide their […]

For-Profit College Will Open Seminary

The country’s best-known Christian for-profit college, Grand Canyon University (GCU), has announced that it will open an independent, non-denominational, for-profit theological seminary this fall. The announcement came just before the Department of Education reported last month that the number of for-profit colleges fell 5 percent and enrollment dropped about 10 percent in just a year. […]

Ubiquity U. Seeks New Ground in For-Profit Education

If higher education as a business model is collapsing under the weight of weakening public support, fewer students seeking the product and rising costs for workforce and capital maintenance, one institution believes it has the answer to saving students time, money and the industry at large. Ubiquity University officials say that the time has come […]

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Adjunct Bill Moves Forward in California

Adjunct advocates are campaigning for a California bill that would provide some job security to nonunionized adjunct instructors at community colleges. The proposed legislation, known as AB 1690, recently passed the California Senate Appropriations Committee. It now moves on to the general California State Senate, as well as the State Assembly. Provisions included in the […]

SECOME Accepting Applications For Scholarships.

The Southeastern Council on Military Education will be awarding three (3) scholarships to qualifying individuals at the annual SECOME Conference. Winners will be notified by email by 9 September 2016. $500-$1000 Scholarships are available to: An Active Duty, Drilling Reservist, or National Guard Member assigned to a military installation/resides in Georgia, North Carolina, or South […]

Harvard, Berkeley Take MOOCS to New Level

Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley are transforming the online learning experience in their graduate schools of business, using enhanced technology to increase production value and to simulate an in-person classroom experience. The course enhancements are a form of adaptive learning, which can help administrators to determine which strategies keep students most engaged […]

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Game-Based Technology Makes Learning Easier

Students in Art Goldberg’s English composition classes at Miami-Dade College and Broward College have a different experience than their peers in most introductory college writing courses. They’re role-playing as junior staff writers in a fictional newsroom, creating content for an upcoming broadcast—all within a digital game that aims to make learning grammar more engaging than […]

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Bill Clinton Earned Millions from For-Profit College

Bill Clinton was paid $1 million in 2015 by Laureate University, an educational institution with branches around the world. American Thinker has previously reported on this relationship between Clinton and the college, as well as the school’s flawed bookkeeping that got the college in trouble with the SEC. All told, over the last five years, […]

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China Building College-Trained Military

“Good iron isn’t used for nails, and good people don’t become soldiers,” the old Chinese phrase goes. That’s changing, and at the speed of warfare. Worldwide, a reliance on raw manpower has given way to a focus on advanced systems and high-tech weaponry, making the education of personnel a prerequisite for any advanced military. That […]

GED Put Veteran on Path to Higher Education

Pursuing a college education was the farthest thing from James Kurth’s mind back in 1990. After the death of his mother, Kurth moved from Corpus Christi to live with family in Victoria where he was thrust into a new high school setting in an unfamiliar city. Kurth was already struggling to graduate on time after […]

Washington State Officials Want to Aid Military Transition

For many service members, the military is their first nonpart-time job. As such, many service members don’t have much experience in writing resumes, nor do they have a large network of professional associates outside their military peers. The Service Member For Life-Transition Assistance Program and the Washington State Military Transition Council are striving to change […]

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