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Colleges Wary of Linking Aid to Mastery, Not Credits

ST. LOUIS – As concerns about college affordability grow, WGU Missouri is continuing to demonstrate its commitment to expanding access to affordable, higher education for adults across the state. The online university invested more than $500,000 in scholarships for FY18, helping to make the dream of higher education a reality for hundreds. Since WGU Missouri […]

August 23, 2018

Top 25 Colleges Ranked

For the first time in a decade, non-military schools take the top two spots on FORBES’ list of top public colleges in the U.S. The University of California, Berkeley is the No. 1 public college and ranks No. 15 nationally. The California state university system’s oldest and most selective institution, founded in 1868, UC Berkeley […]

August 23, 2018

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U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps Members Seek Veteran Status

“Dear President Trump,” Kirksville resident Doris Kent began the letter she sent to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on June 6. “I’m a 91-year-old woman with Parkinson’s Disease and I wish to call to your attention a concern while I am still able. I believe that the women who served in the United States Cadet Nurse Corps […]

August 23, 2018

Army Reinstates Dozens of Discharged Immigrants

At least three dozen immigrant recruits who were booted from the U.S. Army after enlisting with a promised pathway to citizenship are being brought back to serve, according to court records filed Monday. Since Aug. 17, the U.S. Army has reinstated 32 reservists, and revoked discharge orders of another six enlistees who had sued. Another […]

August 23, 2018

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Benefit Transfer

Two weeks after the D-Day landings in Normandy, Franklin Roosevelt signed the Serviceman’s Readjustment Act, more commonly known as the GI Bill. That landmark measure would provide both college tuition grants and a stipend for the returning service members who had “been compelled to make greater economic sacrifice and every other kind of sacrifice than […]

August 21, 2018

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Disabled Vets Says V.A. Is Failing Her

Dr. Lenora Langlais said she was approved for the VA’s Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) program, only she got cancer and had to fight for her life instead. Langlais is very humble, but her accolades deserve some significant acknowledgment. She received a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation, joint service achievement, and Purple Heart to name […]

August 21, 2018

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GoArmyEd: Tools for Continuing Education

GoArmyEd.com is the Soldiers’ gateway to taking college courses, earning certifications, and furthering their education. Through GoArmyEd service members can request online Army tuition assistance for classroom and distance learning online college courses. The Fort Myer Education Center counselors can assist Soldiers through the process. “We provide assistance with service members (who) are trying to […]

August 21, 2018

Military Spouse Scholarship Site Back Online

Twenty days after its missed relaunch date, the Pentagon’s military spouse scholarship portal is back online. The Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts (MyCAA) scholarship program, managed through the Defense Department’s Military OneSource website, gives eligible spouses up to $4,000 in tuition assistance for certain types of courses. Read More

August 21, 2018

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Summer Studies at Stanford Give Vets Head Start

During his summer stay at Stanford, Garrett Gross took a sociology course on the power of social networks in everyday life, and learned how to write a persuasive, argument-based essay in a course offered by the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Garrett Gross, left, and Hugo Santos Parada, who are enrolled in the Veteran Accelerator […]

August 21, 2018

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School of Navy Chaplains to Return to Rhode Island

NEWPORT, R.I. — A school for U.S. Navy chaplains is returning to Rhode Island. Democratic U.S. Sen. Jack Reed said Friday the Navy plans to relocate the Naval Chaplaincy School and Center and about 20 jobs from Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina to Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island, effective March 1, 2019. Reed […]

August 21, 2018

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Lawyers: Discharged South Korean Army Specialist Granted US Citizenship

LOS ANGELES —A South Korean-born U.S. Army specialist who sued after the military moved to discharge her has been granted citizenship, her attorneys said Friday. Yea Ji Sea, 29, had filed a lawsuit last month demanding a response to her citizenship application. She came to the country as a child on a visitor visa and […]

August 21, 2018

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Higher Ed Act Turns 10: How Landscape Has Changed

Ten years ago, on August 14, 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law the 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA), the last comprehensive reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA). This took place during the buildup to a financial crisis that ultimately cost 8.7 million American jobs. Now, with mounting college costs and loan […]

August 21, 2018

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‘Good Idea Fairy’

It is tough to publicly critique someone you respect but, if the issue is important enough, sometimes you have to bite the bullet and let fly. In a recent War on the Rocks article, Paula Thornhill provided a set of recommendations she believes would improve professional military education. If anyone is qualified to tackle this […]

August 17, 2018

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DOD Exempts Wounded from Separation Policy

Servicemembers wounded in combat will now be exempt from the new Department of Defense policy to be deployable in 12 months or face separation from the military. According to DOD Instruction 1332.45 (Retention Determinations for Non-Deployable Servicemembers), those servicemembers whose injuries were the result of hostile action, meet the criteria for awarding of the Purple […]

August 17, 2018

Feds Probe Dismissal of Disabled Student Veteran

The federal government is investigating the Medical University of South Carolina for an alleged civil rights violation after a veteran and former nursing school student reported she was expelled because administrators discriminated against her based on a disability. Nicola Fiem, 31, of North Charleston, filed her complaint with the U.S. Department of Education last year. […]

August 17, 2018

Leaving Military? Get Extra Time to Use Benefits

Those leaving the military will have more time to use free resources such as income tax help, nonmedical counseling, spouse employment assistance and other resources via Military OneSource, thanks to a provision in the defense authorization bill signed into law Monday by President Trump. Much of the information on MilitaryOneSource.mil is available to the general […]

August 17, 2018

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Online, For-Profit University Accused of Misleading Vets Agrees to Pay $270,000

American Military University has agreed to a $270,000 settlement regarding allegations by the state of Massachusetts that the school violated state law by misleading veterans. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey alleges the online for-profit school, whose students are mostly veterans, did not make mandated disclosures to prospective students regarding job placement rates and did not […]

August 17, 2018

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Warrior-Scholar Project Introduces Service Members, Vets to Top Universities

It’s 6 p.m. and three women are huddled around an outdoor table, binders out, ready to study. This week, Vaquita Barnes has been up till 2 a.m. finishing her homework, but thanks to a system she’s devised with Artra Rice-Nelson and K’Loni Luttrell, they might get to bed by midnight. Read More

August 17, 2018

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