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Section: Military
Veterans
Study: Veterans 2x as Likely to Commit Suicide as Others
A new Veterans Affairs report with updated statistics on veteran suicide shows veteran suicide numbers are significantly higher than non-veterans and not going down despite tens of millions in spending. The report, VA National Suicide Data Report, shows veterans aged 18-34 have a suicide rate more than twice as high than non-veterans. The numbers published […]
June 22, 2018
Academics
Higher Ed Reforms Stalled in House
A bill from the U.S. House education committee is a good start on tackling student loan debt, say supporters, but the legislation still faces hurdles in getting to the House Floor for a vote. An aide familiar with the legislation said that it won’t be scheduled for a vote until the Education and the Workforce […]
June 22, 2018
Academics
Soldiers Eligible for Tuition Aid Right After Advanced Training
WASHINGTON – Soldiers will no longer have to wait one year after completing their Advanced Individual Training to receive tuition assistance. Soon, tuition assistance will be available immediately for Soldiers of all components after AIT. This assumes they meet existing eligibility requirements and have no flags like disciplinary problems or failure of the Army Physical […]
June 22, 2018
Academics
Thousands Attend Mega Career Fair at Fort Hood
Every room at Fort Hood’s Club Hood was filled to capacity Tuesday. Thousands of soldiers, airmen, veterans, civilians and family members rubbed elbows and tried to squeeze past one another, all vying to get information from the 190 businesses and organizations attending the biannual Mega Career Fair hosted by the post’s Soldier for Life/Transition Assistance […]
June 22, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
Grading Army College
I have spent the past year being graded, evaluated, and assessed as a student at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC). After graduating and reflecting over the past year, I will now grade, evaluate, and assess CGSC. You will find that I am extremely candid and pride myself in speaking my mind. […]
June 21, 2018
Academics
Slippery Rock Gets More Funding for Troops-to-Teachers
A program to help veterans become teachers in one year at Slippery Rock University has received additional state funding. The Pennsylvania Department of Education has received $1.6 million in federal grant money to extend the Troops to Teachers program for five more years. This program is designed to provide accelerated training toward teaching certifications for […]
June 21, 2018
Academics
New Center Will Aid Veterans
Veterans have always played an important role throughout Western Technical College’s history. Since World War II, Western assisted veterans returning home from war to successfully transition back into the workforce. That work continues to this day. Last year, Western served 879 military connected students. Veteran students had an average GPA of 3.0 and a graduation […]
June 21, 2018
Other News
Navy App Locker Has 90 Offerings
The U.S. Navy currently hosts more than 90 Navy mobile apps, including 24 Sea Warrior Program-developed apps, at the Navy App Locker. The website allows Sailors to identify official apps developed by the Navy and proceed directly to commercial app stores via trusted download links. The Sea Warrior Program manages a large portfolio of business […]
June 21, 2018
Other News
DOD: Military Spouses Will Get Free LinkedIn Accounts
The Defense Department’s Spouse Education and Career Opportunities program is launching a new partnership with LinkedIn — the virtual professional networking platform. Military spouses will soon have access to a free LinkedIn Premium membership, valid for one year, every time they have a permanent-change-of-station move, including access to more than 12,000 online professional courses through […]
June 21, 2018
Academics
Princeton Helps Vets Adjust to College
An intensive two-week program being held at Princeton University is designed to help military veterans make the transition from the military to higher education. To ease the transition, the Warrior-Scholar Project (WSP) is hosting an intensive two-week academic boot camp at Princeton University now through June 24, WSP announced. The Warrior-Scholar Project coordinates immersive academic […]
June 21, 2018
Other News
Trump Cancels South Korean War Games
The Pentagon is still trying to figure out what President Trump meant when he said on Tuesday that the United States would cancel its war games with South Korea. Task & Purpose roamed the halls of the five-sided funhouse all day, trying to get clarity on the president’s comments, but it only became apparent that […]
June 21, 2018
Other News
Army Discharges Grad Who Touted Communist Revolt
WATERTOWN — The images Spenser Rapone posted on Twitter from his West Point graduation were intentionally shocking: In one, the smirking cadet opens his dress uniform to expose a T-shirt with a blood-red image of socialist icon Che Guevara. In another, he raises his fist and flips over his cap to reveal the hand-scrawled message: […]
June 21, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
Failing Mission
This past week, nearly a dozen national veterans and military service organizations assembled on Capitol Hill in a united front to voice their concerns about the House of Representatives’ Higher Education Act reauthorization, known as the PROSPER Act. The PROSPER Act — which could head to the House floor on June 18 — would roll […]
June 19, 2018
Academics
Air Force Base Office Offers Information, Career Resources
BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. — The mission of the Employment Assistance Program at Barksdale Air Force Base is to support all Department of Defense cardholders in achieving short and long-term employment, by providing resources for education, training and career goals. Located at the Airman and Family Readiness Center, the EAP provides individual services to […]
June 19, 2018
Academics
Community College of Air Force Awards Degrees
HULMAN FIELD AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Ind. — Thirty-three Airmen assigned to the 181st Intelligence Wing received Community College of the Air Force associate’s degrees June 10 at Hulman Field Air National Guard Base, Indiana. Friends, family, coworkers and military leadership attended the graduation ceremony in support of the CCAF graduates. Read More
June 19, 2018
Veterans
Troops-to-Teachers: New Ways to Serve
Richard Boone spent his career training young airmen on handling emergencies both in the air and on the ground. Now, after 26 years in the Air Force, the retired senior master sergeant calls teaching real-life skills to 13-year-olds his dream job. Boone found his path from Tinker Air Force Base to nearby Choctaw Middle School […]
June 19, 2018
Veterans
U of Chicago Ditches SAT Scores, Increases Aid
CHICAGO— The University of Chicago is becoming the first major U.S. research university to stop requiring American undergraduate applicants to submit ACT or SAT scores. The decision that school officials say is designed to help even the playing field for students from low-income or underrepresented communities has been made by some liberal arts colleges, but […]
June 19, 2018
Other News
Attorneys General Voice Opposition to Rule Delay
Attorney General Lisa Madigan, along with 15 other attorneys general, submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Education opposing Secretary Betsy DeVos’ proposal to delay and replace a federal regulation, the Program Integrity and Improvement Rule, which provides consumer protections for students enrolled in online college programs. The rule would increase the transparency and accountability […]
June 19, 2018
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