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Section: Other News
Veterans
Military veteran, ASU Online student, graduates with honors after 20-year journey
Johnathon Orrell took his first college class in 1998. After 20 years of juggling military service, working full-time and being a single father, he is now completing his degree and graduating from Arizona State University with honors. This month, he will earn a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication and Media Studies After a chance […]
December 7, 2018
Veterans
VA still paying millions in GI Bill tuition to ineligible for-profit schools: Watchdog
The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued the latest in a series of five audits charging that the Department of Veterans Affairs’ oversight failures could potentially lead to $2.3 billion in GI Bill money going to ineligible for-profit schools over the next five years. The latest OIG report released Monday focused on poor […]
December 6, 2018
Academics
Veteran of FBI, TSA trying to turn around Anderson University
Running a university is by no means easy, but it sounds like a cakewalk compared with John Pistole’s previous gig. Before becoming president of Anderson University in 2015, Pistole worked for the FBI for 23 years, earning the distinction of being its longest-serving deputy director. He then spent four years as the longest-serving post-9/11 head […]
December 6, 2018
Academics
Community college program gives military students credit for their service
Before Central Virginia Community College classes were set to start this fall Marine Zachary Farrell stopped by the school’s Veterans Resource Center to go over his military transcript. The move, which introduced him to the Credits2Careers program and saved him from taking an unnecessary class, is one CVCC is hopes it can get more veterans […]
December 6, 2018
Other News
Another for-profit college chain, popular with GI Bill users, closes suddenly
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — One of the nation’s largest for-profit college chains announced Wednesday that it was abruptly closing in dozens of locations nationwide, after its accrediting agency suspended approval. Birmingham, Alabama-based Education Corp. of America said it was closing schools operating as Virginia College, Brightwood College, Brightwood Career Institute, Ecotech Institute and Golf Academy […]
December 6, 2018
Veterans
Mental health help becoming less of a stigma in military
MONDAY, Dec. 3, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Active-duty members of the U.S. military are much more open to the idea of mental health counseling than veterans, a new survey finds. “There has been a fundamental shift in the military regarding attitudes on mental health, and we have seen real progress in reducing the stigmas associated […]
December 4, 2018
Academics
NewDay USA to announce new Georgia Military College Preparatory School scholarship
MILLEDGEVILLE — NewDay USA is expected to announce next week that scholarships will be made available to children of deployed Georgia National Guard soldiers to attend Georgia Military College Preparatory School. On Monday, NewDay USA, accompanied by Brig. Gen. Randall Simmons, commanding general of the Georgia Army National Guard, will make an announcement for the […]
December 4, 2018
Other News
The US military wants to hunt enemy subs with genetically-engineered sea life
The US military is supporting research focused on genetically-engineering marine life for the purpose of tracking enemy submarines. Research supported by the Naval Research Laboratory indicates that the genetic makeup of a relatively common sea organism could be modified to react in a detectable way to certain non-natural substances, such as metal or fuel, left […]
December 4, 2018
Academics
Lawsuit: Military academy failed to protect cadet from abuse
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — A former student at an all-boys military college prep academy in Georgia has sued the school, saying leaders failed to protect him from hazing and sexual assault. A copy of the lawsuit shared with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says the cadet was hazed, abused and raped at Riverside Military Academy when he was […]
December 4, 2018
Academics
NewDay USA to announce new Georgia Military College Preparatory School scholarship
MILLEDGEVILLE — NewDay USA is expected to announce next week that scholarships will be made available to children of deployed Georgia National Guard soldiers to attend Georgia Military College Preparatory School. On Monday, NewDay USA, accompanied by Brig. Gen. Randall Simmons, commanding general of the Georgia Army National Guard, will make an announcement for the […]
November 30, 2018
Veterans
College’s veteran program awarded grant funding
College of the Canyons has been awarded $200,000 in grant funding, which will assist COC in its commitment to helping veterans, active duty members and dependents achieve their academic goals. “The funding will be used to establish new and enhanced services for veterans and dependents of veterans,” said Renard Thomas, Director of Veterans Resource Center […]
November 30, 2018
Veterans
$4-million veteran center at Penn State is coming soon. How you can donate to the project
Penn State’s veterans and service members will soon have a new space devoted to them and their needs on the University Park campus. The west wing of the first floor of Ritenour Building — about 6,300 square feet of space — will be repurposed and renovated into a new Student Veteran Center. That work is […]
November 30, 2018
Other News
Pentagon IDs remains of Tuskegee Airman killed in WWII
ALBANY, N.Y. — The remains of a New York pilot killed during World War II are the first of the 27 Tuskegee Airmen listed as missing in action to be identified, the Pentagon announced Thursday. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the agency charged with recovering and identifying the nation’s war dead, said the remains accounted […]
November 30, 2018
Academics
UML, military join forces for research
LINCOLN — “The Navy is here for business.” That’s what Robert Smith, director of the U.S. Navy’s Small Business Innovation Research program, had to say Tuesday at the opening of UMass Lowell’s new Research Institute. The center will host a variety of public-private sector partnerships, including workforce development, research opportunities and more. Located just down […]
November 29, 2018
Policy
Don’t let space become the next military battleground
President Donald Trump’s recent proposal for a military-oriented Space Force has renewed a debate that occurred at the outset of American space exploration 60 years ago: Should issues associated with exploring the heavens be controlled by the military or by a civilian organization? In 1958, embarrassed by the Soviet Union’s triumphant launch of Sputnik, President […]
November 29, 2018
Academics
They served their country. Why aren’t elite colleges serving them better?
PRINCETON, N.J. — The ink starts at Sam Fendler’s left wrist and winds up his arm, a tableau of his life before college that begins with a block of text: “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” At the top of the […]
November 29, 2018
Veterans
Thousands of Tennessee veterans haven’t received GI Bill benefits for months. Here’s why.
Staff Sgt. Robert Baker was so stressed about money that he made a “spur of the moment decision” and dropped out of all his classes. It was already October and he hadn’t received his GI Bill benefits for the start of his fall semester at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville. The 30-year-old communications major […]
November 29, 2018
Academics
GMC Prep art student put a face to sacrifice, patriotism on display
The show, “Portraits of Courage: The Veterans at the Georgia War Veterans Home,” is the result of GMC senior visual art students, and a select few of gifted underclassman, conducting interviews with veterans home residents about their personal lives and military service. They took information gleaned from the veterans and used it to create portraits […]
November 27, 2018
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