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Veteran Reconnect Funds New Services in Tennessee

Martin, TN – The Tennessee Higher Education Commission selected the University of Tennessee at Martin as one of six institutions to receive funding through the 2016 Veteran Reconnect program in the fall of 2016. The first of many new resources available to student veterans is the creation of a dedicated veterans’ services coordinator. “We have, […]

January 17, 2017

WWII Dropout Gets Honorary Diploma

CINCINNATI — Ninety-year-old Louis Schipper never earned his high school diploma. In 1943, as a 17-year-old boy, he convinced his mother to let him leave St. Xavier High School behind and fight in World War II. “He was the only freshman in the classroom with calluses on his hands,” recalled George Wood, a former classmate. […]

January 17, 2017

Online Courses Help College Reclaim Military Ed Role

WHILE BEING STATIONED in some hot spot probably doesn’t sound like the best time to be working on your graduate degree, students in new online programs offered by New England College are doing just that from remote locales all over the world.The MBA in Strategic Leadership and the MA in International Relations were tailored to […]

January 17, 2017

Troops to Teachers Defunding Disrupts Services

GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Head to the Troops to Teachers website, and all you’ll find are blank pages. Try calling a state office, and you’re told your call won’t go through. Instead you have to call an operator at the program’s national headquarters in Pensacola, because all regional funding to Troops to Teachers has been […]

January 17, 2017

DOD Awards Robotics Hub to Consortium

The Department of Defense (DoD) awarded the 14th Manufacturing USA institute – the Advanced Robotics Manufacturing (ARM) Innovation Hub – to American Robotics, Inc. today. The eighth DoD-led institute, the ARM Institute joins the Manufacturing USA network in its collective effort to help revitalize American manufacturing and incentivize companies to invest in new technology development […]

January 17, 2017

Change in White House Could Effect College Rules

Sweeping new regulations covering higher education institutions, particularly for-profit colleges, are due to take effect in July, but it is unclear where the Trump administration will stand on them and whether they will remain intact. The regulations include a “borrower defense” rule that makes it easier for students to gain debt forgiveness, more stringent credit […]

January 17, 2017

Obama’s DOE Discharges $30M in For-Profit Loans

BOSTON – Students of the now-shuttered American Career Institute will have more than $30 million in federal student loans forgiven under a deal announced by Massachusetts’ attorney general. Attorney General Maura Healey asked the U.S. Department of Education to cancel the loan obligations after her office sued the for-profit school over fraud allegations and the […]

January 17, 2017

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Beware of Programs That Don’t Make the Grade

JEERS . . . to the more than 800 vocational programs nationwide that graduate students with excessive student-loan burdens based on the salaries they’re able to earn, according to U.S. Department of Education documents released Monday. The education department’s poor grades place these programs at risk of losing federal financial aid funding. The department reviewed […]

January 13, 2017

Chippewa Valley Technical Makes Military-Friendly List

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU)– Chippewa Valley Technical College has been named a military friendly school for 2017. The designation by Victory Media is awarded to colleges, universities and community colleges that do the most to embrace military students. Categories include military support on campus, graduation and employment outcomes and military spouse policies. CVTC says they […]

January 13, 2017

Q&A: Scholarship Program for Military Spouses

The My Career Advancement Account Scholarship program, a component of the Department of Defense Spouse Education and Career Opportunities program, is a career development and employment assistance program. My Career Advancement Account Scholarship helps military spouses, who have successfully completed high school, pursue licenses, credentials or associate degrees with a specific concentration or major(excludes General […]

January 13, 2017

Forums Address Veterans’ Needs

When it comes to veterans’ issues, there’s no one way to address the needs of those who served. It’s a fact that Sgt. 1st Class Ben Davis said is all too familiar. After returning from Vietnam, Davis felt abandoned. Transitioning back to civilian life took time. But his experience differs from what today’s veterans are […]

January 13, 2017

Officer Helps Soldiers Find Careers after Service

FORT RILEY, Kan. (WIBW) — Army Master Sgt. Jason Snell is a transition liaison on Fort Riley. His job is to help soldiers tap into the resources available for job employment after the military. “Most of them come out of high school and they go right into the army and they don’t understand what the […]

January 13, 2017

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Psychologist Receives Award for Work on Veterans

Nathan Ainspan ’88, an industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist with the Department of Defense’s Transition to Veterans Program Office, has received the Raymond A. Katzell Award in I-O Psychology from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) for his work improving the lives of military veterans and for his commitment to promoting research-based insights designed to […]

January 13, 2017

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Va. College Helps Convert Military Skills into Credits

As a Marine, Jasmine Quiroz–Pele went from Japan to Afghanistan and back again, getting a thorough training in supply chain logistics. But once out of the service, as a civilian in her mid-20s and a single mom who relocated to Fredericksburg after retiring from active duty, she was just another college student, with a long […]

January 13, 2017

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For-Profit College Industry Slips Through Cracks

At this time last year, all signs were pointing to a for-profit college industry in crisis, if not the death throes. But the industry has found new life through aggressive advocates in government and steadily rising stock prices with the election of Donald Trump, who operated an unaccredited for-profit education scheme and recently settled fraud […]

January 13, 2017

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2016 in Higher Education

For-profit career colleges suffered major setbacks in 2006 as many students dropped out with huge debts and no degree. Students entering college in 2008 had a 55 percent rate of graduating college from public universities but only 27.8 percent among for-profit 4-year schools. For the more than 100,000 students enrolled in the main online campus […]

January 12, 2017

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Albany State, Darton on Military Friendly List

ALBANY, Ga. – Albany State University and Darton State College have earned the 2017 Military Friendly School designation by Victory Media. First published in 2009, Military Friendly Schools is a comprehensive, powerful resource for veterans. Each year, the list of Military Friendly Schools is provided to service members and their families, helping them select the […]

January 12, 2017

Wells Fargo Launches 2017 Veteran Aid Programs

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) and Scholarship America are now accepting applications for the 2017 Wells Fargo Veterans Scholarship and Wells Fargo Veterans Emergency Grant Programs. Wells Fargo has committed $2 million over a four year period to fund the programs and help veterans and their families to successfully integrate back into civilian […]

January 12, 2017