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Programs Help Airmen Prepare for Careers

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas (AFNS) — The Air Force has begun participating in career skills programs which afford eligible Airmen the opportunity to prepare for a post-Air Force career up to six months before separation or retirement. Apprenticeships, on-the-job training, employment skills training and internships are all career skills programs that offer skills training […]

July 6, 2017

Getting Students Talking? Teach It Online

I feel especially close to the 20 undergraduate students who just completed my five-week summer session marketing class. This close bond wasn’t a result of the usual experiences that bring students and their instructors together, like individual office meetings or vibrant classroom discussions. The closeness was created digitally, because this was a class delivered entirely […]

July 6, 2017

Military Service: One of Best Decisions Ever

URBANA — Lt. Nicholas Osborne served an 11-month deployment during Operation Iraqi Freedom before becoming director of the Chez Center for Wounded Veterans in Higher Education. Part of the first job was checking for IEDs in vehicles that were shipped out. Education was always part of the plan. But just as many World War II […]

July 6, 2017

Website Helps Military, Veterans Assess College Costs

The Veterans Affairs (VA) website has a good tool for determining school costs at most colleges and universities. The website is called the GI Bill Comparison Tool at www.vets.gov/gi-bill-comparison-tool. The site is available for everyone to use. It provides an annual cost for tuition, gives a benchmark of living costs and for veterans it provides […]

July 6, 2017

R.I. Assembly Approves Bill to Study Veteran Education

PROVIDENCE — Legislation sponsored by Rep. Samuel Azzinaro, D-Westerly, and Sen. Walter S. Felag Jr., D-Warren, that would create a 13 member special legislative commission to study veteran and military spouse education and employment opportunities was approved Wednesday by the General Assembly. The purpose of the commission will be to study and discuss best practices […]

July 3, 2017

U.S. Rep: Defense Bill Includes Help for Military Spouses, Families

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Willsboro, helped shepherd several amendments to a defense appropriations bill, including a Democratic-backed climate change measure, through the committee process. She successfully got through three of her own measures, two dealing with military transfers and another with the selection of an East Coast missile defense site. Read More

July 3, 2017

Merchant Marine Academy Remains on Accreditation Warning

The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point remains on warning by its academic accrediting agency even as the school has improved all but one of the five quality benchmarks it failed last year, according to a status update made public Thursday. The Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which initially placed the federal service […]

July 3, 2017

Trident University Adds Support for Fort Irwin

As part of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed with Headquarters, United States Army Garrison, Fort Irwin in September 2016 Trident University International (Trident) would like to announce the addition of Karen Diaz as Outreach Education Specialist. This is the University’s first ever arrangement of this kind. Based at Fort Irwin, Diaz is in charge […]

July 3, 2017

Serviceman Ends 20 Years of Globe Trotting, Learning

Sometime during the last decade, Two Harbors native Craig Moe was carrying 56 Marines in the back of his C-130 aircraft and was attempting a night landing at a dirt airfield in Iraq when he saw every military pilot’s nightmare screaming toward the plane. A surface-to-air missile was corkscrewing toward him, fired from close range. […]

July 3, 2017

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Bill Could Streamline CDL Process for Military

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (Tribune News Service) — Sen. Thom Tillis has joined with senators from Texas and Massachusetts to introduce a bill that would simplify the process for troops and veterans to apply for a commercial driver’s license. Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, and Sens. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, and Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, […]

July 3, 2017

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Foreign-Born Skilled Recruits Could Face Deportation

One thousand foreign-born military recruits are facing deportation under a proposed Pentagon plan to cancel enlistment contracts for those without legal immigration status, reports The Washington Post. A Defense Department memo obtained by The Washington Post highlights potential security threats in the Military Accessions Vital to National Interest (MAVNI) program, which was implemented to accelerate […]

July 3, 2017

Report: Online Students Want Quality

Most students in fully online college courses live close to the educational institution offering them, and are interested in the quality, not just the convenience, of their education, according to a new survey. The survey, “Online College Students 2017,” was produced by The Learning House, Inc. and Aslanian Market Research and polled 1,500 former, current […]

June 30, 2017

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Illinois Budget Impasse Could Cost Accreditations

CARBONDALE — The regional accrediting agency responsible for assuring the quality of colleges and universities, including Southern Illinois University, sent a letter this past week to the governor and legislative leaders warning them that there could be “accreditation consequences” if a budget deal is not reached in short order that provides adequate financial support for […]

June 30, 2017

Scholarship Will Help Military Spouse Advance

Megan Morris says she never wins anything. So imagine her surprise when she received a phone call this past week from Jenny Valderas, senior manager of family support services for Operation Homefront San Antonio, telling her she would be awarded a full online scholarship from Southern New Hampshire University on Friday evening in Tampa, Fla. […]

June 30, 2017

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Tuition Aid Portal Speeds Approvals

PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) — As part of the Navy’s transformation to a virtual service delivery model, the Navy College Program launched an update to the My Education portal June 27, significantly improving the Web Tuition Assistance approval process for Sailors taking off-duty education courses. “We’ve automated a major portion of the WebTA authorization process to […]

June 30, 2017

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W.Va. Business College Being Shut Down

WHEELING — “Unethical,” “irresponsible” and “harmful” are words state Council for Community and Technical College Education Chancellor Sarah Tucker used to describe actions she said West Virginia Business College is taking to convince students the institution will remain open beyond Friday. Tucker, whose organization is tasked with overseeing West Virginia’s community and technical colleges, said […]

June 30, 2017

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Army to Harvard: Dream Come True

FRESNO, Calif. — Most people haven’t understood Richard Martinez III’s dreams. As a teenager, his friends asked why he wanted to throw his life away when he told them he planned to join the U.S. Army after high school. They couldn’t fathom why a stellar student and athlete who won top national awards for Academic […]

June 30, 2017

Students Getting Credit for Military Service

The upcoming July Fourth holiday is a time for patriotism and expressing our appreciation for our freedom – protected, of course, by the sacrifices of military service members.While we’ve covered topics related to service members paying for college, the Student Loan Ranger wanted to highlight a lesser-known education benefit: college credit for time served in […]

June 30, 2017