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Section: Veterans
Veterans
Veterans Upward Bound Funding Renewed
SCOTTSBLUFF — The Veterans Upward Bound program at Western Nebraska Community College received notification from the United States Department of Education, informing the program it was successful in its grant application. All Veterans Upward Bound grants are funded in five-year award cycles. The WNCC VUB program will continue to be funded until August 2022, and […]
September 22, 2017
Veterans
Cal State San Marcos Gets $1 Million Gift for Vet Center
Cal State San Marcos officials announced that the school received a $1 million donation from the San Diego-based Epstein Family Foundation to support its center for student military veterans. The money will endow programs and pay for an expansion of the center to double its current size. “This gift from the Epstein family is truly […]
September 22, 2017
Veterans
USC Hosts Conference on Veterans, Military Families
Los Angeles, California – The Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families, or “CIR” (pronounced “Sir”), at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work is once again presenting a conference aimed at addressing the critical issues facing today’s veterans. The State of the American Veteran Conference 2017 (Sept. 28 – 29, […]
September 22, 2017
Veterans
Va. Opens New Training Program at T.C.C.
The latest educational opportunity for transitioning service members and military veterans was kicked off with a nod from Gov. Terry McAuliffe. “It’s a great day for Virginia,” said McAuliffe who has made veterans an important part of his term. “We need to lean in on the workforce and try to keep veterans here in Virginia. […]
September 15, 2017
Veterans
Sullivan U. Strives to Make Transition Easier
What’s harder than serving your country in the United States Armed Forces? Leaving the military life behind to return to the civilian world. Readjusting to the less-regimented, quieter existence takes time, possibly more so than leaving it behind for the military upon enlisting. One of the easier ways to make the transition is attending college. […]
September 15, 2017
Veterans
Canada Enhances Its Supports for Vets and Families
Whenever a Canadian serves in Canada’s armed forces, their whole family serves with them. That is why the Government of Canada has made it a priority to not only improve benefits and services for our nation’s Veterans, but for their families as well. Sherry Romanado, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate […]
September 15, 2017
Veterans
At 59, Ex-Marine/Student Hopes to Help Other Vets
Lorenzo Tuero, freshman communication major and a veteran of the U.S. Marines, decided to start at Emporia State at the age of 59. Being a nontraditional transfer student offers many different obstacles, challenges and opportunities, according to Tuero. “Next April I’ll be 60 years old,” Tuero said. “I don’t want to say it’s been traumatic…I […]
September 12, 2017
Veterans
Illinois Waives CDL Test for Some Veterans
ROCKFORD, Ill. — Veterans no longer must take a written test to obtain a Commercial Driver’s License as long if they operated a large truck in the military in 2016. Secretary of State Jesse White made the announcement last month, saying veterans should be assisted to “find jobs suitable to their skills and experiences.” Ron […]
September 7, 2017
Veterans
R.I. Aids Vets Released from Prison
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island state agencies are working together to help incarcerated veterans who will soon be released. Director of Veterans Affairs Kasim Yarn says he’s in sync with Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo’s goal to give everyone a chance to make it in the state. So, Yarn started working on ways Rhode Island could […]
September 5, 2017
Veterans
Meet the Woman Who Heads American Legion
About 38 years ago, a recruiter from the American Legion came to Army veteran Denise Rohan’s door in Marshall, wanting to speak to her husband, who was also a veteran. Rohan, who now lives in Verona with her husband, Mike, told the recruiter she was also eligible for Legion membership. But he suggested she instead […]
September 5, 2017
Veterans
Veteran Wins Google Scholarship
Delaware State University student Robert Morris is one of eight college students nationwide to receive a $10,000 scholarship from Google this month. The scholarship, which is specifically for military veterans pursuing computer science degrees, will help Morris get through his senior year at DSU. Read More
August 31, 2017
Veterans
Soldiering on After Illness Derails Olympic Dreams
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Five years ago, then-Sgt. Megan Henry was in peak physical condition and had her sights set on riding her skeleton sled all the way to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Then tragedy struck. During training at Park City, Utah, Henry suddenly had great difficulty breathing. Doctors told her she […]
August 31, 2017
Veterans
Campus Newsletter Compares Vets to Supremacists
A flyer hung at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs by a self-described social justice group suggests veterans at four-year universities are a disruptive threat that should be banned from campus. The flyer, put up at the public university Thursday by a group calling itself the “Social Justice Collective Weekly,” argued veterans openly mock safe spaces […]
August 29, 2017
Veterans
Women to Head 2 Major Vets Groups
RENO, Nev. — Hundreds of veterans paraded through a large convention hall to Sister Sledge’s “We are Family,” arms wrapped around one another Thursday when the American Legion, a 99-year-old organization representing 2 million veterans, elected its first female national commander at the conclusion of its annual convention. Denise Rohan, an Army veteran living in […]
August 29, 2017
Veterans
Entrepreneurship Program Offers Free Training
After retiring from the Navy in 2013, Jason Szot followed through on a plan nearly two decades in the making: opening Szotski’s Cheesecakes. “I would make cheesecakes a couple of times a year for friends and family. They told me I should do that when I retired. So when enough people tell you that, you […]
August 24, 2017
Veterans
WKU’s Veterans Upward Bound program turns 25
When U.S. Army veteran Philip Parsons completed his service in 2010, he had no high school diploma and couldn’t see a way to a better future. That changed the day he saw a card for Western Kentucky University’s Veterans Upward Bound program while visiting an unemployment center. Now, after graduating in May with his master’s […]
August 22, 2017
Veterans
Custodian Returns as a Teacher
Lowell Outland was a custodian at Tates Creek High School for seven years, a high school dropout who dreamed of becoming a teacher. The 59-year-old Air Force veteran made it happen. On Wednesday, the start of the school year for Fayette County Public Schools, Outland stepped to the front of his classroom as the new […]
August 18, 2017
Veterans
What Today’s College Students Look Like
When most people think of a college student they likely imagine an 18- to 22-year-old coed bounding through the quad on the way to her dorm from a lecture hall. But these days, the typical college student actually looks more like Erin Jones. Jones, 37, is a veteran and single mom who drives to her […]
August 18, 2017
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