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Section: Veterans

Florida Program Gets Veterans into Nursing

A program at Florida International University’s Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences is helping recent veterans, current reservists, and national guard members integrate into education and prepare for a future as a nursing professional. The Veterans Bachelor of Science in Nursing (VBSN) program is open to service members who trained and served in […]

March 3, 2017

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Texas Bill Would Benefit Veterans

A Texas lawmaker authored a bill to prevent penalties against student veterans and their families whose benefits aren’t in sync with education deadlines. Rep. John Raney, R-College Station, authored House bill 846 to prevent higher education institutions from dropping veteran students and their families from classes or charging extra fees if their state or federal […]

March 2, 2017

College Staff Take Course in Military Competency

February 28, 2017 —With about 20 percent of its students connected to the military, Texas A & M University, San Antonio, recently took an extraordinary step: It became the first college in the United States to require all faculty and staff to take “military competency” training. As part of its mission to be “military embracing,” […]

March 2, 2017

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Stanford Expands Veterans’ Programs

After serving six years in the U.S. Army, including five deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Cole Moses knew that the transition to academic life – as an MBA student at Stanford Graduate School of Business – would be tough. Still, even before he arrived on campus Moses knew he could rely on two organizations for […]

March 2, 2017

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Virginia Expands Cybersecurity Training for Veterans

Roughly three months after it began, Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s Cyber Vets Virginia initiative to retrain veterans to work in the tech sector is expanding with the addition of two academies this spring, said state officials who hope the program will grow even further. Announced on Veterans Day 2016, the Virginia governor’s plan focuses on filling […]

February 28, 2017

Gift Will Enhance Veterans’ Services at the Citadel

The Citadel announced a substantial gift from celebrated Charleston entrepreneur and philanthropist Tommy Baker and his wife, Victoria. In recognition of their generosity, the college will name its business program the Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business at The Citadel. It is the largest cash gift ever made to the college’s business program, and […]

February 28, 2017

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Program Trains Veterans for Future in Farming

A growing number of veterans are looking to agriculture for their next career and entrepreneurial opportunity. It’s what brought dozens of veterans and active duty military recently to the parking lot of the Hillsborough County Agricultural Extension Service in Seffner. Shortly after sunrise, they boarded a bus for the Military Farm Tour sponsored by the […]

February 28, 2017

4 Facts About Student Veterans

The popular myth that student veterans don’t perform well doesn’t stand up to the facts. We took Fallujah. We know more than a decade of war. Why then do so many articles bemoan the challenges veterans face attending college? Veterans are completing tougher degrees with higher grades at better colleges than many might guess. Sure, […]

February 28, 2017

Study: Veterans Out-Perform Other Students

Despite often having to juggle schoolwork with jobs and families, veterans attending college under the Post-9/11 GI Bill are finishing at rates slightly higher than their classmates, a new report shows. The report says 53.6 percent of veterans using GI Bill benefits who arrived on campus in the fall of 2009 had graduated within six […]

February 28, 2017

Massachusetts Provides Grants to Aid Veterans

The state is helping hundreds of veterans by awarding $350,000 in grants to four Massachusetts organizations. The grant funding will go to Community Legal Aid, Inc., in Worcester; Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center in Gardner; The Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School in Boston; and Veterans Legal Services in Boston, Attorney General Maura Healey’s office […]

February 24, 2017

Student Veterans to Lobby for Centers

The veterans resource center is planning a trip to the Capitol in Sacramento on March 8 to have students “tell their stories” and encourage legislators to keep funding the California community college veterans resource centers. The Sacramento trip will have student veterans representation from all 113 community colleges in the state. More student veterans receive […]

February 24, 2017

Many Women Veterans End Up Homeless

We’re sitting in Rosie Palfy’s living room, outside of Cleveland, in a house she’s just been able to purchase after VA finally settled her disability claim, after almost nine years of delays and detours. I’m having her read through the almost 400 comments women veterans left in response to my original survey about housing issues […]

February 24, 2017

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Montana Senator’s Bill Would Enhance GI Benefits

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester rolled out a proposal to bolster higher education opportunities for veterans and plugged a pair of bills targeting rural teacher shortages at Montana State University Billings on Monday. The Rural Educator Support and Training Act and the Native Educator Support and Training Act were first introduced by Tester in 2015. Both […]

February 24, 2017

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Navy Veteran Will Head Cybersecurity Campus

DENVER, Colo. (PRWEB) SecureSet Academy today announced that Commander Abe Thompson (US Navy, Ret.) has been named director of the Academy’s new cybersecurity education programs in Colorado Springs. Thompson served in numerous Cyberwarfare, Information Warfare and Cryptologic roles for the Fleet from 1989-2013. His Special Warfare Navy Cyber Sailors received recognition for bringing Navy Cyber […]

February 23, 2017

Veteran/Student Launches Literary Journal

DES MOINES, Iowa — Danny Judge stayed up all night at his wife’s bedside with his laptop open. Sarah was undergoing treatment at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines. Her mouth was blistering from aggressive chemotherapy. Her “pregnancy,” it turns out, was cancerous cells. “He’d stay there, working all night, then go get our son […]

February 23, 2017

Wounded Warriors CEO: Recovery Will Take Years

Wounded Warrior Project’s well-known logo shows one solider carrying a fallen comrade to safety. For the past year, the Jacksonville-based charity has dealt with its own financial wounds after national media reports plunged it into a touch-and-go period marked by a nose-dive in donations and staff cutbacks. The worst of the fallout has passed, but […]

February 23, 2017

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Bill Would Let GI Benefits Cover Application Fees

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02) and Republican Rep. Luke Messer (IN-06) are working to reduce the financial burden on veterans seeking higher education by making application fees eligible under the Post 9/11 GI Bill. “Veterans should not miss out on higher education because of the cost of application fees,” said Larsen, a senior member on […]

February 23, 2017

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Missouri College Recruiting Veterans

(West Plains) – Area veterans interested in using their Military Education Benefits to earn a college degree from Missouri State University-West Plains are invited to visit the university’s Veterans Incentive Program (VIP) Center on March 9 to learn more about the university and the process involved. No appointment is necessary. Veterans can drop by the […]

February 21, 2017