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A Grand Encampment

President Trump wants a parade. I say, let him have it. But let’s do it American style. He’s suggesting an Independence Day event. Terrific idea, but, to avoid the punishing afternoon heat, let’s do the march down Pennsylvania Avenue at about nine in the morning. At the end of the march have the tanks, infantry […]

February 13, 2018

Going Viral

Tom Note: I offer this note here from my friend, Army Maj. D.J. Skelton, because I have learned a lot from following his ups and downs as he deals with the multi-year consequences of being grazed in the head by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq. My apologies for my silence/absence for awhile. Quick update for […]

February 9, 2018

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Trump’s Parade

It is nice that President Trump likes France. Our Gallic friends and allies have made wonderful contributions to art, music, architecture, literature, and gastronomy. But like an American student who spent a semester in Paris and toured mostly the inside of wine bottles, Trump seems to have been impressed by the wrong thing during his […]

February 8, 2018

Planning Ahead

A college education is a common denominator for many young people. In fact, more than 20 million students attended colleges and universities in the United States in the fall of 2017, constituting an increase of about 5.1 million since 2000. There is a stronger reliance on higher education than ever, so for many people exiting […]

February 6, 2018

Getting In

It’s admissions season, and across the country, thousands of admissions officers sit in front of screens, reading files full of transcripts, test scores, extracurricular profiles, letters of recommendation, and, of course, essays. I was once one of these officers, spending emotionally exhausting 12-hour days reviewing thousands of applications from Ivy League hopefuls over a span […]

February 2, 2018

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Stop Abuses

In 2015, the collapse of the behemoth Corinthian Colleges, which had been taking in up to $1.4 billion in federal dollars annually, and the subsequent collapse of the giant ITT Tech cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and left thousands of students with enormous student loan debt and no degree or diploma to show […]

February 1, 2018

Hire Them

The U.S. Department of Labor recently reported that the unemployment rate for post-9/11 military veterans dropped to 4.2 percent in 2017 – one of the lowest rates since 2007. And while much is being done to support our nation’s most recent veterans, many steps still need to be taken to remove the roadblocks to employing […]

January 30, 2018

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Debt Trap

An article published in the Washington Post earlier this week by Robert Gebelhoff made some interesting and valid points on the worsening student default situation. Nevertheless, Gebelhoff failed to recognize one of the fundamental drivers of this mounting student debt problem. Tuition, in real terms, has more than tripled in recent decades. The average rate […]

January 26, 2018

Good Business

Why Hiring Veterans is Good Business. Leaving the military was scary. After years of physical training, skills development and frequent relocation… military service had become my “normal.” Those were some of the most challenging and rewarding years of my life. When I decided to return to the civilian world, it was nothing less than a […]

January 25, 2018

Pay for College

The last part of this three-part series hits on the outlying areas of where financial assistance may come from for those attending college. We have successfully touched base on financial aid, scholarships and now there are a few programs which straddle both financial assistance and scholarship lines. The first item: the GI Bill, which is […]

January 23, 2018

Innovation and Transformation

Here’s a puzzle: Americans love their own colleges and universities and yet are suspicious of and even disdainful of colleges and universities in general. Why is that? Polls show that the great majority of Americans who graduated from college are grateful they went to that college, felt they got their money’s worth, and would go […]

January 19, 2018

Good Intentions

Online fundraising sites let well-wishers provide financial support for grieving families, both in and out of uniform. But as more requests on behalf of active-duty military dependents show up on these sites, sometimes offering emotional pleas for survivors who are destitute or “left with nothing,” donors should consider what programs are in place to assist […]

January 18, 2018

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Art for Healing

ARLINGTON, Va. – An art exhibit can be many things to many people – different styles and tastes that will hopefully render an artist a success. Success in this case is the courage exhibited by Sgt. Neil Kurtys. Mental illness is the white elephant in the room that is difficult to talk about. So instead […]

January 16, 2018

If It Ain’t Broke….

Many for-profit colleges get 80 percent, 90 percent, or more of their revenue from taxpayers. Taxpayers have a right to expect adequate performance and avoidance of waste, fraud, and abuse. Some for-profit schools do a good job. But there’s enormous evidence that many for-profit schools, getting billions in federal aid, have engaged in deceptive and […]

January 12, 2018

Paying for Online Ed

Online college programs are becoming a more popular choice for prospective students, with one study finding that more than 6 million students enrolled in at least one online course in fall 2015. The popularity of these courses can be attributed in part to their flexibility with working adults’ schedules, students’ ability to progress more quickly […]

January 11, 2018

Words Matter

Editor’s note: This content was contributed by Student Veterans of America to supplement Military Times’ coverage of the group’s National Conference. See all our coverage of NatCon2018 here, and learn more through SVA. As the CEO of Student Veterans of America (SVA), connecting with student veterans is my priority. I’ve had the pleasure of engaging […]

January 9, 2018

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Building Better MOOCS

A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an ideal way to get students, employees or interested parties together and to learn something – they’ve even been shown to work for the most maligned of subjects, Compliance Training! But, how do you keep a MOOC social? What should you focus on if you are developing a […]

January 5, 2018

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Online Challenge

The University of Massachusetts has set an ambitious goal for its renewed push into online education: to increase annual online revenue from $100 million to $400 million. To make that happen, UMass has to break out in an already crowded market and make up for some major lost time. The university system has also hired […]

January 4, 2018