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Section: Veterans
Veterans
Book covers long military career of Penn Yan native
PENN YAN — About eight years ago, Terry Mitchell’s wife told him about a writing group at Syracuse University for war veterans. Started a couple of years earlier by two SU professors, its name, simply, was the Syracuse Veterans Writing Group. Mitchell was intrigued. Read more
December 7, 2018
Veterans
Military veteran, ASU Online student, graduates with honors after 20-year journey
Johnathon Orrell took his first college class in 1998. After 20 years of juggling military service, working full-time and being a single father, he is now completing his degree and graduating from Arizona State University with honors. This month, he will earn a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication and Media Studies After a chance […]
December 7, 2018
Veterans
VA still paying millions in GI Bill tuition to ineligible for-profit schools: Watchdog
The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued the latest in a series of five audits charging that the Department of Veterans Affairs’ oversight failures could potentially lead to $2.3 billion in GI Bill money going to ineligible for-profit schools over the next five years. The latest OIG report released Monday focused on poor […]
December 6, 2018
Academics
Community college program gives military students credit for their service
Before Central Virginia Community College classes were set to start this fall Marine Zachary Farrell stopped by the school’s Veterans Resource Center to go over his military transcript. The move, which introduced him to the Credits2Careers program and saved him from taking an unnecessary class, is one CVCC is hopes it can get more veterans […]
December 6, 2018
Veterans
Mental health help becoming less of a stigma in military
MONDAY, Dec. 3, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Active-duty members of the U.S. military are much more open to the idea of mental health counseling than veterans, a new survey finds. “There has been a fundamental shift in the military regarding attitudes on mental health, and we have seen real progress in reducing the stigmas associated […]
December 4, 2018
Veterans
College’s veteran program awarded grant funding
College of the Canyons has been awarded $200,000 in grant funding, which will assist COC in its commitment to helping veterans, active duty members and dependents achieve their academic goals. “The funding will be used to establish new and enhanced services for veterans and dependents of veterans,” said Renard Thomas, Director of Veterans Resource Center […]
November 30, 2018
Veterans
$4-million veteran center at Penn State is coming soon. How you can donate to the project
Penn State’s veterans and service members will soon have a new space devoted to them and their needs on the University Park campus. The west wing of the first floor of Ritenour Building — about 6,300 square feet of space — will be repurposed and renovated into a new Student Veteran Center. That work is […]
November 30, 2018
Academics
They served their country. Why aren’t elite colleges serving them better?
PRINCETON, N.J. — The ink starts at Sam Fendler’s left wrist and winds up his arm, a tableau of his life before college that begins with a block of text: “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” At the top of the […]
November 29, 2018
Veterans
Thousands of Tennessee veterans haven’t received GI Bill benefits for months. Here’s why.
Staff Sgt. Robert Baker was so stressed about money that he made a “spur of the moment decision” and dropped out of all his classes. It was already October and he hadn’t received his GI Bill benefits for the start of his fall semester at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville. The 30-year-old communications major […]
November 29, 2018
Academics
GMC Prep art student put a face to sacrifice, patriotism on display
The show, “Portraits of Courage: The Veterans at the Georgia War Veterans Home,” is the result of GMC senior visual art students, and a select few of gifted underclassman, conducting interviews with veterans home residents about their personal lives and military service. They took information gleaned from the veterans and used it to create portraits […]
November 27, 2018
Funding
Local businessman creates scholarship for veterans at South Plains College
There is one subject that all Americans agree without argument – the love and support of the United States military and its servicemen and women. If not for their bravery and sacrifice, life in this country would be chaos. Local businessman Bill Cohen, owner/operator of McDonald’s of Levelland, has made it possible to honor servicemen […]
November 21, 2018
Veterans
Saint Joseph’s College remembers veteran chaplain, Father Clement Falter
Saint Joseph’s College posted the following message online on Monday, Nov. 12, for Veterans Day, “in memory of all our veterans today:” In honor of all those who have served in support of our Country on this day of remembrance, Saint Joseph’s College would like to share the story of one of our fallen and […]
November 21, 2018
Veterans
Program aims to help veterans find work in tech fields
CHICAGO — Growing up in Chicago, a smart kid who studied only enough in school to get by, Frederick Davis turned to the military — the Navy, in fact — to “get me on track” in life. As it turned out, despite thinking of himself as “mechanically inclined,” Davis possessed a technical aptitude which moved […]
November 21, 2018
Academics
College of Medicine holds panel on veteran health, military medicine
Former active duty army medics and current medical students participated in an engaging conversation about veteran health during the first Veterans Health Forum at Drexel University College of Medicine Nov. 14, as part of the university’s Veterans Appreciation Month. The panelists explored and analyzed the differences between civilian and military medicine, how civilian doctors should […]
November 16, 2018
Veterans
Fordham writing workshop helps vets communicate
Some stories are first-hand accounts of the horrors of war; others explore life away from the battlefield, sometimes in offbeat and surprising ways. The writers are most often combat veterans. The stories for each 10-week session are published in print paperbacks. David Surface, founder and instructor of the Veterans Writing Workshop, started the program in 2010. Three […]
November 16, 2018
Veterans
Clemson officials welcome new Student Veteran Center
CLEMSON — A new, expanded space dedicated to Clemson University’s student veteran population officially has a new home in Vickery Hall. A ribbon-cutting event is scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday in room 108 and will feature remarks from President James P. Clements along with Student Affairs staff. Previously, the Student Veteran Center was a much smaller […]
November 16, 2018
Veterans
Many disabled veterans eligible for student loan forgiveness are still paying
The U.S. Department of Education continues to seek repayment on more than $1 billion in federal student loans from tens of thousands of severely disabled veterans who have been deemed unable to work and are eligible for student loan forgiveness. The news comes out of a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Veterans Education […]
November 15, 2018
Academics
Southern New Hampshire University Partners with Walgreens on Veterans’ Education
Southern New Hampshire University is partnering with Walgreens to expand higher education for veterans. SNHU and Walgreens will work together to help up to 5,000 U.S. veterans who work at Walgreens earn discounted masters or bachelor’s degrees from the school. David Coyner is Vice President of Sales for SNHU Workforce Partnerships. He says Walgreens approached […]
November 15, 2018
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