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Section: Military

University Outreach Addresses Challenges

The University has launched a new outreach program to address the unique challenges student veterans face. Jason Sakowski, veteran services coordinator, and Nick Osborne, director of the Center for Wounded Veterans, reached out to all the community colleges in the state to recruit veteran transfer students. “99 percent of our (veteran) students are actually transfer […]

April 3, 2018

Bill Supports Military and Vets

S.D. Will Give Active Military Tuition Discount

Active duty service members enrolled in distance courses offered by all six public universities in South Dakota will soon qualify for a reduced tuition rate. As approved this week by the South Dakota Board of Regents, the new rate effective beginning in the summer 2018 term. The new tuition rate is $250 per credit hour, […]

April 3, 2018

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Connecticut Veteran Wins Upgrade to Discharge Status

Connecticut veterans’ leader and decorated soldier Stephen Kennedy has won his eight-year battle to have his Army discharge status upgraded to honorable. Kennedy, of Fairfield, president of the Connecticut branch of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA-CT), will continue his federal class action lawsuit on behalf of Army veterans nationwide who received less than […]

April 3, 2018

Discharge Status

Ousted VA Chief Says Appointees Did Him In

David Shulkin, removed days ago as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, said political appointees engineered his ouster as they push for “more aggressive” changes to how the sprawling department is run. “I did not resign,” Shulkin said on Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” In a separate interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he said […]

April 3, 2018

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Senators Slam For-Profit Bridgepoint

In 2011, now-retired United States Senator Tom Harkin called San Diego’s controversial for-profit Bridgepoint Education “an absolute scam.” This month, two senators have whacked the company’s major operation, Ashford University, with similar — but more polite — biting criticism, to wit: Ashford is guilty of “predatory practices,” the senators said in a March 15 letter […]

April 3, 2018

Council That Oversaw For-Profits Wants a Comeback

The organization at the center of one of the largest fraud scandals in the history of for-profit colleges is planning a comeback. The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools was stripped of its powers in December 2016 amid the collapse of two for-profit university chains, where tens of thousands of students were encouraged to […]

April 3, 2018

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For-Profits: The Real Threat

If you talk to most current and former employees of the for-profit education sector, there’s a strong likelihood they’ll tell the same story: for-profit education was a successful industry in the U.S. until Obama came along. Under the former administration, regulators made it their personal mission not just to police the industry, but to take […]

March 30, 2018

College Classroom

Naval Academy Expels Plebe for Slur

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The United States Naval Academy says it has dismissed a white midshipman for using a racial slur for African-Americans in online communications with other midshipmen. Jeff McFadden, an attorney for Midshipman 4th Class Ted Colter, tells The Capital the plebe was expelled Feb. 26 for unsatisfactory conduct and plans to appeal on […]

March 30, 2018

College Keeps Aviation Program, Benefits Restored

After considering ending its aviation science program due to suspended benefits to military veteran students by Department of Veterans Affairs, Klamath Community College is keeping its program in place. It is enrolling new students for its aviation science ground school preferably by Friday, March 31 and until spring term begins Monday, April 2. KCC President […]

March 30, 2018

College Keeps Aviation

Global Business Employs Transitioning Military

A global engineering services company is giving unique opportunities to veterans, including right here in southern Colorado. Kelly Terrien is the President and CEO of Summit Technical Solutions (STS), and she said it’s important to give back to those who have risked their lives for our freedom. “Men and women who have served in our […]

March 30, 2018

Jobless Rates for Vets

Vets Head West to Fight Wildfires

Sand and gravel crunched under the pounding boots of about 150 men and women walking and jogging on a recent rain-drenched morning at Paramount Ranch in the Santa Monica mountains. The wildland firefighter hopefuls were tackling a fitness test. They had to cover three miles of outdoor terrain with a 45-pound pack on their chests […]

March 30, 2018

Vets Fight Wildfires

Bill Introduced to Have Veterans, Ex-Police Guard Schools

In the wake of this weekend’s March for Our Lives, lawmakers are looking forward to gun law reform. The March for Our Lives rally in Washington was a show of force and an outcry for those affected by gun violence. Protestors demand action saying enough is enough. Congressman Tom Marino (R-PA 10th District) introduced new legislation […]

March 30, 2018

Vets Police Guarding Schools

DOD May Raise Cap on Tuition Aid for Deployed

The Defense Department may ease tuition assistance rules for deployed service members to make it easier for them to take classes, a DoD official said Tuesday. “They have extra time on their hands, in some cases, and they want to do more,” said Dawn Bilodeau, chief of DoD Voluntary Education. The DoD tuition assistance program, […]

March 30, 2018

DOD Tuition Aid

Shulkin: “It Should Not Be This Hard…”

Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin does not appear to be happy about his sudden firing Wednesday evening. In a New York Times op-ed published Wednesday night, Shulkin praised his own record in office while lamenting the challenges of serving in President Trump’s administration. “As I prepare to leave government, I am struck by a recurring thought: It should […]

March 30, 2018

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Women’s History Month: Honoring Women in Combat

Women’s History Month, celebrated in March, highlights the important contributions of women to our nation, both historically and in today’s society. Women like Deborah Sampson, the first American women to serve in combat, have played vital roles in our Army since the Revolutionary War. Sampson disguised herself as a man to enlist in the Continental […]

March 29, 2018

Womens History Month

College 101: Online Learning

We live our entire lives online these days: Americans spend an average of 24 hours a week online. So, why shouldn’t we learn online, too? There’s no reason at all why we shouldn’t, actually, because learning online, and even earning degrees via the web, is a perfectly reasonable thing to do in 2018. That’s not to […]

March 29, 2018

Syracuse Online Law Program

Fort Bragg, U.S.O. Team Up to Help Departing Troops

Fort Bragg and one of its nonprofit partners are teaming up to help service members launch new careers. The installation’s Soldier for Life – Transition Assistance Program and the USO of North Carolina will host a free transition expo and hiring fair next month. The event will take place April 24-26 and include panel discussions, […]

March 29, 2018

Veteran Suicide at V.A. Medical Center

St. Louis police reported Monday that a veteran suicide occurred in the waiting room of John Cochran VA Medical Center. Authorities in VA informed the public that a veteran killed himself in the waiting room at 4:19 AM Monday. He was 62 years old. “We are grieved to confirm that a Veteran was found deceased in our […]

March 29, 2018