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Section: Other News
Veterans
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
Veterans
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
Academics
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
Veterans
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
Veterans
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
Other News
Court Rules Against Accrediting Agency of ITT Tech, Corinthian Colleges
WASHINGTON — The Accrediting Council on Independent Colleges and Schools — the beleaguered accrediting agency that had oversight for two recently collapsed for-profit schools — lost its bid Tuesday to stop the U.S. Department of Education from terminating its federal recognition. The loss was due largely to testimony from ACICS interim president Roger Williams himself, […]
February 24, 2017
Other News
UNH Will Make Tuition Free for Pell Grant Freshmen
DURHAM, N.H. — The University of New Hampshire is unveiling a plan that will mean free tuition for about 300 students next fall. The plan, called the Granite Guarantee, means full-time, first-year students from New Hampshire receiving federal Pell grants will be able to attend the university tuition-free. “They aren’t going to have years of […]
February 24, 2017
Other News
Strict Rules May Weaken Cuomo Plan
As a freshman at City College last fall, Saad Ahmed stopped by his advisor’s office for what he thought was a routine meeting — until he found out he had lost all his state financial aid for the semester. He thought it was a mistake, but it wasn’t. Although he should have received about $2,000 […]
February 24, 2017
Veterans
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
Veterans
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
Veterans
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
Academics
Education for Military Students Can Be Debt-Free
The pursuit of a college education often includes a hefty price tag. It’s an exasperating cycle. Job seekers are told a degree, licensure or certification gains them more bargaining power for future salaries. But, the cost of attaining that education often ends with decades of debt that students have to work double-time to pay down. […]
February 23, 2017
Veterans
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
Other News
Taxpayers Fund 200-plus For-Profit Schools
The University of Phoenix, Ashford University and the now-shuttered ITT Tech are among the nearly 200 for-profit colleges that got most of their revenue from taxpayers, according to internal Department of Education data made public by President Barack Obama shortly before he left office. The proprietary schools – which also include dozens of storefront beauty, […]
February 23, 2017
Other News
Harvard Law Clinic Sues DOJ Over For-Profit Files
The Project on Predatory Student Lending at Harvard Law School is suing the Justice Department for withholding documents that could help for-profit college students get their federal education loans canceled. The lawsuit stems from a 2015 settlement between the Justice Department and Education Management Corp., the operator of for-profit schools Art Institutes, Argosy University, Brown […]
February 23, 2017
Other News
N.Y. Republicans Unveil Alternative to Cuomo’s
Assemblyman Joseph Giglio and other New York State Assembly Republicans have unveiled their own college affordability proposal that they say fills gaps in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s free tuition plan. Minority Republicans earlier this week announced the Affordable College For All Initiative, a bill package they said would “modernize” the state’s Tuition Assistance Program that provides […]
February 21, 2017
Veterans
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
Veterans
Event Will Let Veterans Test Out of Courses
The Fort Rucker Education Center exists to help Soldiers looking to further their careers through higher education and an upcoming event will allow them the chance to earn free college credits. The education center will hold its CLEP-a-thon Feb. 28 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the first floor of Bldg. 4502 as a […]
February 21, 2017
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