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‘Boot Camp’ Prepares Military Vets for College

To prepare post-9/11 veterans to the demands of an academic environment, the Warrior-Scholar Project was launched, and the University of Arizona is this week hosting more than a dozen veterans in an immersive, academic boot camp. Earlier this year, the Warrior-Scholar Project named the UA and others, including Georgetown University, Harvard University and Yale University, […]

VFW Scholarship Aids Veterans and Families at Minnesota

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5039 recently created a scholarship for veterans and their families at the University of Minnesota, Morris. New for 2016–17, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5039 of Morris Scholarship has been designated for a veteran, the son or daughter of a veteran, or the grandson or granddaughter of a veteran […]

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Benefit for Disabled Vets Begins in November

By Kellie Lunney | The Office of Personnel Management on Friday will publish the final rule implementing a law that gives new federal employees who are disabled veterans the equivalent of a full year’s sick leave up front to go to their medical appointments. The 2015 Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act gives 104 hours of […]

Protect Higher Education for Our Veterans

Following more than a decade of fighting asymmetric conflicts on multiple fronts, many veterans today face an entirely new dilemma on a very different terrain. While transitioning from military to civilian life, millions of veterans consider taking advantage of their GI Bill benefits to further their education. The Post-9/11 GI Bill — enacted in 2008 […]

Injured Marine Finds Healing in Woodworking

Retired Gunnery Sgt. Ernesto Aquino was wounded 12 years ago during his fifth deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan and came home with back injuries that left him wheelchair bound with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. He was close to taking his life, but the thought of his children without a father held him […]

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Increasing Adjunct Faculty

By Ashley A. Smith | Student success initiatives tend to work better on campuses where faculty members are engaged. So Achieving the Dream, the nonprofit organization that advocates for institutional improvement at community colleges, is unveiling a new initiative that will help part-time faculty members become more active in their colleges’ reform efforts, with the […]

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A County Searches for Veterans Who Missed Getting Diplomas

The Riverside County Office of Education is searching for World War II, Korean and Vietnam war veterans who never received a high school diploma due to their service in the military. RCOE has awarded more than 300 diplomas to veterans and Japanese-American citizens interned during World War II since the county began its Operation Recognition […]

Project Expects Layoffs as Part of Restructuring

The new chief executive of the Wounded Warrior Project, one of the nation’s largest veterans charities, said he anticipates laying off an undisclosed number of employees and cutting the amount of financing it provides smaller veterans groups amid a restructuring that follows scrutiny of the nonprofit organization’s spending. Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Linnington, who […]

Wounded Warriors Visit Exotic Zoo

GREENWOOD, La., Aug. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — During a recent Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) program gathering at Gators and Friends Alligator Park and Exotic Zoo, injured veterans and their family members experienced the wonders of Louisiana wildlife along with the camaraderie of socializing with their service brothers and sisters. Read More

Idaho Veteran Loves Research at VA

At 19 years of age, Alabama native Pamela Dockstader ’16 signed up for the United States Army. Over the course of six years repairing armament on M1 Abrams and M2 Bradley tanks and serving two tours in Afghanistan, Dockstader fell in love with the military. And while transitioning to civilian life and attending The College […]

DoD’s Virtual Fair Helps Answer Education Questions

PENSACOLA, Fla., Aug. 2, 2016 — Registration is now open for the Defense Department’s second Voluntary Education Virtual Education Fair, scheduled for Aug. 11 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. EDT, according to a Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support news release. The fair is for service members and spouses. It provides the opportunity to […]

Protect Students From Rip-Off Clauses

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education’s proposed rule to protect students from forced arbitration clauses hidden in contracts with their schools falls short of protections needed to ensure all students ripped off by their schools can have their day in court, 41 groups said in comments (PDF) submitted on Monday. Public Citizen and a […]

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