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Section: Veterans
Veterans
V.A. Explains the Wait for GI Bill Money
The average student veteran using the Post-9/11 GI Bill this fall has had to wait more than 3 weeks for their housing benefits to come through. The Veterans Affairs Department alerted students to the higher-than-normal wait times in an email this week, noting that average processing times are currently around 23 days for continuing GI […]
October 16, 2018
Veterans
More Retirees Study, Live on Campuses
When Barbara Lane and her husband relocated to the Berkshires from New York City, they didn’t envision a traditional retirement. “Ed and I have never seen ourselves as they kind of people who will move down to the warm weather and play bridge and tennis for the rest of our lives,” Lane said. “That was […]
October 12, 2018
Veterans
Oregon Vice Provost Heralds Online Advances
Ask Carol Gering about her greatest successes as executive director of e-learning and distance education at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and she’ll rattle off a half-dozen stories about students in seconds. Among them, a woman from Jordan who wants to open a fashion business in the Middle East and is taking UAF online classes […]
October 12, 2018
Veterans
A Jail Offers Help to Reintegrate Veterans
The McLennan County Jail has started a new program for our former troops. Creating Opportunity for Veterans through Education and Reintegration, or C.O.V.E.R as it’s called, is a program that seeks to help veteran inmates move toward the right path back into society. Inmates are selected for the program through an application process which includes […]
October 12, 2018
Veterans
3 Nontraditional Ways to Get a Bachelor’s Degree
In 2013, 20-year-old Carmel Wright, who had worked as a nanny and tutor after graduating from high school, was ready to consider college. Then she mysteriously lost the use of her right leg. What turned out to be an unusual muscle-bone condition set her on a yearlong path of treatment in Sacramento, Calif., where she […]
October 9, 2018
Veterans
Transition Requires New Skills
Most service members agree that transitioning from the military into civilian life requires a new set of skills regardless of rank or the number of years served. Whether you plan to seek employment, attend an institution of higher education, obtain a credential or start a business, the Transition Assistance Program (TAP) curriculum, Transition Goals, Plans, […]
October 9, 2018
Veterans
5 Tips for Women in Transition
According to Department of Labor, the unemployment rate for women veterans continues to drop. Evidently, more women veterans are entering and persevering in the workforce. Programs geared towards post-911 female veterans have been instrumental in helping them transition into new jobs and stay off the streets. Women veterans are the fastest growing group in the […]
October 9, 2018
Veterans
Van Uses Technology to Promote Benefits
ELKO – Want to know more about veteran benefits? Follow new Veterans Resource Center mobile outreach vehicle to their offices at Great Basin College. The vehicle is styled with a colorful vinyl wrap featuring two Great Basin College student veterans and college president Joyce Helens and a digital screen that can be customized with messages […]
October 9, 2018
Veterans
Comcast Launches Internet Service for Low-Income Vets
Comcast has launched an internet service program for low-income veterans across the United States. The initiative was announced Tuesday in Washington, D.C., with the help of Olympic idol Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Paralympic gold medalist Rico Roman, who is a Purple Heart recipient. Comcast – the parent company of NBCUniversal – is expanding its Internet Essentials […]
October 5, 2018
Veterans
DOD: How to Access Verification of Experience
The VMET (Verification of Military Experience and Training), or DD Form 2586, documents and verifies service member military experience and training. Therefore, it is useful when you are considering civilian occupations related to your military service, as well as in translating military terminology and training into civilian terms. The VMET form is available to all […]
October 5, 2018
Policy
Marine Corps Sets Goal to Scrub Gender Bias from Documents
The most male-dominated military service in the Department of Defense has embarked on an ambitious initiative to strip unnecessary masculine pronouns and other indicators of gender bias out of its foundational publications within the next 24 months. The assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Glenn Walters, told members of the Defense Advisory Committee on […]
October 5, 2018
Veterans
Military School Dean Fired Over Medical Use of Cannabis
A Vietnam veteran and career educator at an elite military training school now finds himself resorting to a Reagan-era executive order in hopes of clearing his name. Henry Cobbs’ crime? Vaping a non-psychoactive form of cannabis to treat his prostate cancer. Cobbs, 77, was forced out of his job last month as dean of academics […]
October 4, 2018
Veterans
Warrior Transition Unit Rebuilds Lives
When a soldier is wounded, ill or injured — whether at home or overseas — Fort Hood’s Warrior Transition Unit is there to ensure the soldier receives the appropriate medical care and administrative processing needed to return to duty or to transition into the civilian world. And when a soldier is identified as one who […]
October 4, 2018
Veterans
Virginia Secretary Visits University Student Veterans
The Virginia Secretary of Education Atif Qarni spoke to a group of VCU military veterans at Cabell Library Sept. 21. The event — organized by Military Student Services Director Stephen Ross — focused on what veterans go through when transitioning from their time in the armed forces back to civilian life. “This was a really […]
October 2, 2018
Academics
East Tennessee Opens Center for Military-Affiliated Students
JOHNSON CITY, TN – Students who are veterans or the family of veterans have a new place to go on the ETSU campus. The Office of Veterans Affairs at East Tennessee State University dedicated their new Military-Affiliated Student Recourse Center (MARC) this morning. Formerly known as the Veterans Lounge since its opening in 2013, the […]
September 28, 2018
Veterans
COOL: What Credentialing Opportunities Online Can Do
Need a credential? Credentialing Opportunities Online (COOL) has you covered. Each branch of the military has a COOL website, specific for that service. COOL is a credentialing awareness and information resource for all service members. Service members can get information about civilian licensure and certification, identify licenses and certifications relevant to military specialties, learn how […]
September 28, 2018
Veterans
Vietnam Vets Fund Scraps Plan to Build Museum
WASHINGTON—The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund announced Friday that it is ending its troubled project to build a $130 million underground Vietnam education center on the Mall. The proposed center, which would have been adjacent to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and near the Lincoln Memorial, had been plagued by funding problems almost since the project was […]
September 27, 2018
Veterans
3 V.A. Employees Accused of Fraud
Three people have been arrested on charges of trying to steer U.S. government contracts toward particular companies in exchange for either bribes or fraudulent “training fees.” The Denver U.S. Attorney’s office said they face charges including paying and receiving bribes, as well as conspiracy. Prosecutors say that these three men tried to manipulate two VA […]
September 25, 2018
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