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Section: Other News
Policy
AP Found Nearly 400 Cases of Sexual Assault Among Children on Bases
The Pentagon says it does not know how often the children of service members sexually assault one another on military bases. To answer that question, The Associated Press filed dozens of Freedom of Information Act requests with the main law enforcement agencies for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, as well as with the […]
March 16, 2018
Academics
DOD Official Visits Training Center
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (OSD) for Readiness, Mr. Charles (Fred) Drummond visited Asymmetric Warfare Training Center (AWTC) and several other training venues located on Fort A.P. Hill, 07 Mar. During his visit at AWTC, Mr. Drummond received a facilities capability […]
March 16, 2018
Veterans
Veteran Finds New Life as River Guide
“There’s something healing about the water. I don’t fully understand it.” Suzy Matsubara didn’t grow up around the water, but she was hooked from the moment she stepped into a 14-foot orange raft and began paddling down the Rogue River. She stared down at her reflection in the dark water, cut by each forward stroke […]
March 16, 2018
Academics
Professor Uses Virtual Labs to Teach IT Skills
Steph YoungGonzaga credits online learning with enriching her education and helping establish herself as an IT thought leader. Now she wants to pay it forward. After earning both a Masters and a Doctorate online, and following a successful twenty-year career as a corporate IT executive, YoungGonzaga recently returned to her roots. She pivoted her career […]
March 16, 2018
Academics
Florida Bills Support Military, Veterans
Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed a pair of veterans-focused bills. He held the signing ceremony Tuesday at Jacksonville’s National Guard armory. The measures are meant to make it easier for vets and active duty service members to get an education and a job. The first new law waives some fees and requirements for state […]
March 16, 2018
Academics
Rep. Jim Banks Discusses Military Education Options
A new bill introduced in Congress last week would provide more educational choice for military families. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., allows military families to open an education savings account for funding a child’s education expenses. The money could be used for private school tuition, textbooks, online classes, private tutoring, and college tuition. […]
March 16, 2018
Academics
Study: Online Instructors Respond More to White Males
Online course instructors are 94 percent more likely to respond to discussion forum comments made by students with names connoting that they are white and male compared to other race-gender groups, according to research published in March. The experimental study, “Bias in Online Classes: Evidence from a Field Experiment,” was conducted by researchers from Stanford […]
March 16, 2018
Policy
Parents: Military Ignored Girls’ Abuse on Base
The three military fathers sat at the commander’s conference table on the U.S. Army base in Germany, pleading for help. They told the commander that their daughters were among a half-dozen girls sexually assaulted by a boy in their first-grade class at the base school. The principal had known about the boy’s behavior for months, […]
March 15, 2018
Policy
AP Finds U.S. Military Overlooks Sex Abuse Among Kids on Bases
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — A decade after the Pentagon began confronting rape in the ranks, the U.S. military frequently fails to protect or provide justice to the children of service members when they are sexually assaulted by other children on base, an Associated Press investigation has found. Reports of assaults and rapes among kids on military […]
March 15, 2018
Academics
Coursera Partners with Universities to Offer Online Degrees
In January 2012, Udacity was launched; then Coursera in April 2012, followed by edX in May 2012. Of course, these are the world’s leading online learning platforms offering MOOCs, or Massively Open Online Courses. Now Coursera is teaming up with several leading universities in the UK and U.S. to leverage its MOOCs platform to offer […]
March 15, 2018
Other News
Bridgepoint wants to Convert Its Colleges to Non-Profts
Sunday we wrote about the new gold rush in education: for-profit colleges converting to non-profit status, allowing them to shed the stigma and special regulatory requirements of for-profits, notably the federal 90-10 rule, while retaining parallel for-profit entities that could keep getting paid by the non-profit, and thus keep getting rich off an endless flow of […]
March 15, 2018
Academics
Syracuse First in U.S. to Offer Online Law Program
Syracuse University College of Law is launching the nation’s first fully interactive online juris doctor program. First class of up to 65 students will begin program in January of 2019. The American Bar Association granted SU College of Law a variance to offer this fully interactive online juris doctor program. The online J.D. was subject to […]
March 15, 2018
Academics
Navy Wants to Expand Seal Training in Parks
The Navy wants to step up special-operations training at state parks along Western Washington coastlines, releasing a proposal that would more than quintuple the number of sites. The Navy currently has a permit to conduct exercises at five state parks. The preferred option in a planning document calls for the possible use of 29 parks ranging from […]
March 15, 2018
Veterans
Army Vet Who Killed 3 Had Lost License
The Army veteran who killed three caregivers at a Napa Valley rehabilitation center for soldiers was licensed by the state to work as a security guard and carry a pistol on his hip for nearly a decade, but he failed to renew the permits last year, records show. The lapse came as the former serviceman, […]
March 15, 2018
Policy
Military Officers Take Priorities to Capitol Hill
Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) will take veteran health care and benefit priorities to Capitol Hill this week. Retired Navy Cmdr. René A. Campos, MOAA’s senior director of government relations for veterans-wounded warrior care, will highlight veteran-facing priorities before the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs committees on March 14, 2018. “MOAA is committed to […]
March 13, 2018
Veterans
Jobless Rates Fall for Veterans
WASHINGTON — The unemployment rates for black Americans, recent veterans and people in their early 20s fell sharply in February, even as the national jobless rate held steady at 4.1 percent. The rate for African-Americans fell to 6.9 percent, near a record low of 6.8 percent reached in December. Still, the unemployment rate for African-Americans […]
March 13, 2018
Academics
5 Midshipmen Face Discipline Over Drug Use
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Authorities at the U.S. Naval Academy have started a disciplinary process against five midshipmen for drug use and failure to report others’ illegal conduct. Academy spokesman Cmdr. David McKinney says the illicit drugs in question are cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine and hallucinogenic mushrooms. McKinney said in a Monday statement that administrative discipline could […]
March 13, 2018
Academics
Vets’ Nursing B.S. Program Gets $100,000 Grant
The University of Michigan-Flint’s (UM-Flint) Veterans Bachelor of Science in Nursing (VBSN) program was recently awarded a $100,000 grant from Newman’s Own Foundation as part of its commitment to improve the lives of US military personnel, veterans, and their families. The grant will be used to develop and implement a Vet2Vet Support Specialist Program dedicated […]
March 13, 2018
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