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FAMU Gets Veterans Entrepreneurial Program

TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) – An organization that focuses on helping Veterans announced that Florida A&M University will participate in a statewide entrepreneurship program for Veterans. Veteran Florida Executive Director, Bobby Carbonell, announced Wednesday that they had selected two more schools to participate in a program for Veterans seeking to start their own businesses. FAMU and […]

October 14, 2016

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Noodle Partners Inc. Raises $4 million to Help Colleges Online

Noodle Partners Inc., a new education venture from the founder of The Princeton Review and 2U Inc., John Katzman, has raised $4 million in venture funding to help colleges and universities deliver high-quality certificate and degree programs online. Philadelphia-based Osage Venture Partners led the investment in Noodle Partners and was joined by New Markets Venture […]

October 14, 2016

DeVry Agrees to Drop Job Claim from Ads

DeVry University has agreed to stop advertising a claim about the success of its students that had been challenged by the federal government. The Education Department announced a settlement with DeVry on Thursday after saying the for-profit college chain couldn’t support one of its marquee claims. DeVry had advertised that 90 percent of its graduates […]

October 14, 2016

Donnelly: No Veteran Should Lose Out After ITT Tech’s Closing

Granger, Ind. — U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly asked Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Bob McDonald to confirm that the bipartisan Veterans First Act—legislation that Donnelly has cosponsored—would enable the VA to restore GI Bill benefits for veterans who were enrolled at ITT Tech at the time of ITT’s closure in September 2016. In the […]

October 13, 2016

Veterans Reunited With Families After Training

Veterans from across the country have come to train at Airstream Renewable Resources for jobs in wind energy. But they couldn’t necessarily afford to move their families to Tehachapi upon completing their education and landing a local job. That’s where Veterans Collaborative Services comes in, Tehachapi City Councilman Ed Grimes shared during the Tehachapi Rotary […]

October 13, 2016

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Campus Provides Haven for Veterans

Brick walls and wide archways pave the way to an isolated part of campus, one that is only available to an exclusive group of the Wilkes community. Specifically, to those who have served our country. To many students, the basement of Conyngham Hall is a place they may never step foot in their four years […]

October 13, 2016

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An Education Researcher’s Take on Financial Aid

In 2015, Goldrick-Rab came under fire on Twitter for her criticism of various higher education policy changes instituted in the state of Wisconsin, where she was at the time a professor at the state’s flagship university, the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In the wake of the vicious Twitter war, Goldrick-Rab, who has long been a fierce […]

October 13, 2016

Critics Question Hillary Clinton’s College Plan

Hillary Clinton’s plan for college tuition is promising but a lot of critics are doubting its feasibility. Everybody understands her good intention for enhancing the education in the United States but the question is — how exactly is she going to do it? One particular critic of Clinton’s plan questions the specifics and the clarity […]

October 13, 2016

Nonprofit Chain from India Expands to U.S.

BROOKLINE, Mass.— One of India’s largest colleges is expanding into the U.S. with the purchase of one campus in New York and a proposal to buy two more, drawing opposition from state officials in Massachusetts about the quality of the education it will offer. Dozens of U.S. colleges have opened overseas campuses, but few foreign […]

October 13, 2016

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Veterans’ Records Found in Storage Unit

RICHMOND, Va.— Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is seeking a criminal investigation after applications for veterans’ benefits were found in a storage unit belonging to a former state employee who was fired last year for mishandling records, officials said. Between 20 and 30 boxes of documents were recovered from the unit belonging to the ex-employee […]

October 11, 2016

Utah State Program Puts PTSD Veterans on Horseback

WELLSVILLE CANYON, Utah —When he was on combat deployment in the Marine Corps, Justin Bishop, of Logan, saw the worst of the worst images from the Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s. Bishop developed post-traumatic stress disorder — experiencing nightmares, sleepless nights, hyper-vigilance and depression. But because of “the culture and stigma of seeking […]

October 11, 2016

Walden Under Review in Minnesota

Minnesota education officials have launched a review of online PhD programs at a for-profit college with ties to former President Bill Clinton. “We have seen an increased number of complaints related to dissertations at Walden University,” Sandy Connolly of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education (MOHE) told NBC News. The review follows an NBC News […]

October 11, 2016

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Senator Urges DOE to Restore Pell Grants Eligibility

(Washington, D.C) – Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, sent a letter urging the U.S. Department of Education (“the Department”) to consider using a provision of the Higher Education Act (HEA) to restore Pell Grant eligibility to low-income students impacted by the closures of […]

October 11, 2016

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Why For-Profits Attract Low-Income Students

Richard Green graduated from high school 20 years ago, eager to get a college degree in computer science and launch a career. So when a recruiter from what was then DeVry Institute of Technology told him he could finish his bachelor’s degree in three years instead of four, he signed on.”You want to be something […]

October 11, 2016

Florida Partnership Supports Veterans

MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Military.com and Veterans Florida announced today that they have joined forces to provide employment tools and resources for veterans and transitioning military members who want to live in Florida. Veterans Florida is a non-profit organization funded by the State of Florida to help promote the state as a […]

October 7, 2016

Alliance Delivers Online Education for Caregivers

WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–USAA and PsychArmor Institute today unveiled a first-of-its-kind online “School for Military and Veteran Caregivers and Families.” This educational and proactive support program provides free educational content for military and veteran caregivers, who consist of family and friends who voluntarily care for wounded, ill or injured military service members or veterans. The courses in […]

October 7, 2016

Online Classes Will Incorporate Lessons in Teamwork

Most online courses are a solitary experience for learners. Students lack the ability to strike up an impromptu conversation about last week’s homework or compare notes with whoever’s sitting next to them in class. The absence of social interaction could be one reason behind high dropout rates in online classes. Instead their interactions are relegated […]

October 7, 2016

“Opportunity Knox” Helps Veterans Find Jobs

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Oct. 3, 2016) — Where Opportunity Knox, a regional initiative to connect transitioning veterans and/or military spouses to jobs in the Greater Louisville Region, announced that it now is holding office hours at Fort Campbell, a U.S. Army installation located at the Kentucky-Tennessee border between Hopkinsville, Ky., and Clarksville, Tenn. In partnership with […]

October 7, 2016