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Section: Academics
Academics
Bill Aims to Smooth Transition to Civilian Life
U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) has put forth a bipartisan measure to better help separating active-duty military personnel get back into the swing of civilian life and work. Rep. Curbelo on Feb. 6 introduced the Better Access to Technical Training, Learning, and Entrepreneurship for Servicemembers Act, or the BATTLE for Servicemembers Act, H.R. 4954, along […]
February 13, 2018
Academics
Transition Director Meets with Stakeholders in Hawaii
Soldiers attending an employment readiness workshop for retirees at the Soldier for Life-Transition Assistance Program Center, here, got an unexpected opportunity to exchange ideas with an influential member of the program on Feb 1. Retired Col. Walter M. Herd, Army Transition Division director at the Human Resources Command Center of Excellence, oversees SFL-TAP and led […]
February 13, 2018
Academics
Air Force Rolls Out Physical Training Standards for Some Fields
Air liaison officers and tactical air control party operators will soon see new career field-specific physical testing as the Air Force expands physical training beyond the standard PT test, officials announced Wednesday. It marks the first time specific career fields will have “occupationally specific and operationally relevant standards, as well as a second fitness assessment,” […]
February 13, 2018
Academics
Spouses Find Job Barriers as They Trail Service Members
Lakesha Cole has been through six deployments and five base transfers as a spouse of a Marine. Each move has represented an exhausting, if familiar routine: There’s the task of packing and unpacking an entire home. Of enrolling three children under the age of 13 in new schools, and tracking down available child care. Of […]
February 13, 2018
Academics
Uniformed Service University Offers Opportunities
Enlisted service members have often been referred to as the backbone of the military for their support, leadership, willingness to get the job done, and thirst for knowledge. Retaining dedicated, talented troops is important to ensuring that their experience is passed on to the next generation of noncommissioned officers and to preparing them for careers […]
February 13, 2018
Academics
Nursing Program That Caters to Military Marks 50th Year
NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) — Over the course of five decades, the Old Dominion University School of Nursing has produced more than 6,000 graduates. Many of the students, up to 40 percent, have some sort of military connection. Either they’re in the military themselves, they’re a military spouse, or they are a vet. Navy wife Jordan […]
February 9, 2018
Academics
$14 M Scholarship for Military Offspring Ends Soon
A college scholarship program that will award a combined $1.4 million to hundreds of military children will stop taking applications Feb. 16 ― one of several such programs with approaching deadlines. Completed applications for the Scholarships for Military Children Program, which is conducted each year in partnership with the Defense Commissary Agency, must reach the […]
February 8, 2018
Academics
Military Times Ranks Top Cybersecurity Programs
When Ben McInnis got out of the Marine Corps four years ago, he was looking for a career with job security, opportunities for growth and better pay than the $10 per hour he made washing cars. Then came news about the infamous Target data breach affecting millions of customers in 2013 and, a year later, […]
February 8, 2018
Academics
Public Demands Firing of Teacher for Anti-Military Rant
Military veterans, parents and students are demanding that a California high school teacher be fired after he told students that the U.S. Armed Forces are for the “lowest of the low.” Hundreds of people packed a school board meeting in Pico Rivera, a suburb of Los Angeles, on Tuesday night to call for the immediate […]
February 8, 2018
Academics
Air Forces Cuts Back on Transition Rules
Air Force Reservists will find it a little easier to meet some of their training requirements after the deployment. New Air Force policy cuts some transition assistance program (TAP) requirements for airmen in the Reserves. Reservists who were on orders for 180 days or more are required to go through TAP before being released into […]
February 8, 2018
Academics
ROTC Woman Earns Submarine Officer Post
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Misha Chalkley doesn’t think about the fact that when she graduates from Jacksonville University in April she will be the first woman from the school’s Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps to earn a post as a submarine warfare officer. She thinks about her future and the people she will lead within the […]
February 6, 2018
Academics
Educators Tour Gives Them a Look at Army
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — After Randi Hunewill participated in her first Army-sponsored tour several years ago, the Nevada Department of Education (NDE) official, who admits to knowing little about the military beforehand, now unabashedly declares she “drank the Kool-Aid.” Not only did she drink, but Hunewill helps other educators get a […]
February 6, 2018
Academics
Transition Advocate Helps Soldiers Get Financially Fit
Deployments, separation anxiety and credit card debt, are among the many challenges military families may face at some point during their careers. Its challenges like these that retired U.S. Army Sgt. Robert Dawsey says he faced during his 25 years of service in the military. Read More
February 6, 2018
Academics
Report: Millions Live in Higher Education “Deserts”
Despite the indelible image of some fresh-faced 18-year-old heading out of state for college, the truth is nearly 40 percent of students attend a school less than 50 miles from home. For students who work full time or have children — a growing segment of the college population — proximity to a physical campus or […]
February 6, 2018
Academics
82nd Airborne Increases Transition Efforts
FORT BRAGG, NC — The 82nd Airborne Division hosted its third, “Paratroopers For Life,” forum inside the Division headquarters at Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 25, 2018. The Division, America’s Guard of Honor, launched the PFLF in December 2016 to assist Paratroopers that are separating from the U.S. Army with easier transitions to civilian life. Read […]
February 2, 2018
Academics
California Online College Targets Working Adults
To open up access to higher education for more people, the California Community College system and Governor Jerry Brown are looking to launch an online-only community college. The college would be designed to serve working adults who want to upgrade their skill set or complete a post-secondary program but for whom personal responsibilities or distance […]
February 2, 2018
Academics
Military “Myths” Hinder Recruitment
Seventeen years of war, TV spots depicting the struggles of wounded warriors, and curbs on military advertising budgets have left the armed forces with an image problem that could take years to repair, said a senior Defense official. Unsettling myths about the military are rising among recruit-age youth and “influencers” — parents, teachers, clergy and […]
February 2, 2018
Academics
Deputies Protect Teacher After Anti-Military Rant
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies are monitoring for threats against a Pico Rivera teacher who made disparaging remarks against the military and the student who secretly recorded him — both online and in their neighborhoods. “There has been a firestorm described as mean comments. No threats of bodily injury at this point,” Capt. Patrick Valdez […]
February 1, 2018
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