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Reintegration Program Simplifies Life for Families

BENTONVILLE, Ark.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) recently received a $5 million grant from the Walmart Foundation to aid in the expansion of its AmericaServes program, a model that offers veterans the tools needed for a smooth transition back to civilian life. The additional funding bolsters ongoing programs in […]

November 10, 2016

“fStop Foundation” Helps Young Veterans

America’s post-9/11 war on terror is our nation’s longest engagement, 15 years and counting. More than 2 million of America’s service personnel have been combat deployed, over 54,000 have been wounded in combat, and 7,000 have been kill in action. The Veterans Administration has treated more than 900,000 veterans for issues relating to their service […]

November 8, 2016

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“Navigator” Helps Other Veterans in College

MOSES LAKE, Wash. —When George Turner left the Air Force, he found himself missing “meaningful work.” As the new Vet Corps navigator at Big Bend Community College, where Turner is studying computer science, he finds himself again doing something important — helping former members of the military make their way into and through college. “It’s […]

November 8, 2016

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Veteran Honored for Aid to Veterans

PASCO, Wash. — An Army dress uniform hangs in Jason Schlegel’s office at Columbia Basin College in Pasco. The uniform belonged to Schlegel’s grandfather, who served during the Vietnam War and later retired after a career in the service. The same career he loved led to his death, Schlegel said. He died after multiple battles […]

November 8, 2016

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Judge Halts Regulators Suits Against ITT

A bankruptcy judge on Wednesday temporarily barred regulators from continuing litigation against ITT Educational Services Inc., questioning whether there is any point in calling the defunct school operator to account for alleged fraud. “If you want to punish and deter ITT, you ought to be bringing criminal actions,” Judge James Carr said during a hearing […]

November 8, 2016

10 Colleges Where Tuition Is Free

You might think there’s no escaping the high—and still rising—cost of college. But at some schools, the cost of tuition rings up as zilch, zero, nada. These ten colleges across the country offer free tuition. At many of the schools, students work a set number of hours in a student work program or, in the […]

November 8, 2016

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Survey: What Issues in Higher Education Are Most Pressing?

The Chronicle of Higher Education surveyed more than 250 college and university stakeholders to find out their takes on the most pressing issues facing higher education today and into the future. Several respondents indicated the rise of diversity in higher education access as a major factor, with affordability, government influence and technological development as similarly […]

November 8, 2016

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Quit Scaring Students About Debt

ELENA Calderon is a first-generation college student who graduated from Eastern Washington University with two degrees and without debt. This isn’t the story you’re used to reading about. The media are full of horrifying anecdotes, highlighting an unemployed art major who left college owing $100,000. State and federal legislators cite student debt as a national […]

November 4, 2016

Wounded Warrior Puts Experience to Work

A U.S. Marine who was wounded by an IED while on duty in Iraq is putting his military experience to work in the private sector, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports. Purple Heart recipient Matt Kinney is the militiary adviser and Assistant Director of Semper K9 Assistance Dogs, a new non profit which has opened in […]

November 4, 2016

Cadets and Vets Meet to Teach Leadership

Nineteen years ago, the American Veterans Center began hosting an annual conference to honor World War Two veterans. At the time, the event was small and quiet, attended by just a handful of people. Then the focus was on remembering past conflicts. Time and events, though, started to shift the event’s focus. As the wars […]

November 4, 2016

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Hiram College to Offer Three-Year Degree

HIRAM, Ohio – Hiram College students will be able to graduate in three years and save money under a new program that includes summer courses. The 3-year option will be offered, beginning in fall 2017, in 19 academic programs at the private liberal arts college in Portage County. “We are responding to the public’s call […]

November 4, 2016

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Military Academies Aren’t What They Used to Be

When Zainab Salami’s parents sent her from a public school in Texas to the Randolph-Macon Academy, a 124-year-old military school in western Virginia, her only frame of reference was a Disney Channel movie. “I thought it would be like Cadet Kelly,” she said. In the 2002 film, the main character, a free-spirited artist type played […]

November 4, 2016

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Democrats Eye Debt-Free College Push in Next Congress

Election Day is still looming, but a group of Democrats has already laid plans to start the next legislative year with a proposal that would allow students to graduate college without debt. About two dozen congressional Democrats have met for more than a year, with discussions intensifying over the last month. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary […]

November 4, 2016

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India Firm Won’t Buy 2 U.S. Campuses

BOSTON — After facing scrutiny from state officials in Massachusetts, a chain of colleges based in India has canceled its plans to buy two U.S. for-profit colleges. The Amity University chain filed paperwork in July proposing to buy the New England Institute of Art, located near Boston, and the Art Institute of New York City, […]

November 4, 2016

For-Profit Closes School in Mid-Day

Missouri College is drawing headlines and controversy as administrators sent home students early during a school day this week, and then informed them the school would be closing immediately. Officials say the closure is a result of financial problems faced by its owning corporation, Weston Educational Inc., which also closed other campuses it owns. Read […]

November 4, 2016

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Heritage College Closes

WICHITA, Kan. – Andria Bryant is still in shock following the abrupt closure of the college she’s been attending for nearly a year. “All the doors are locked. Everything is cleaned out and there’s just a note on the front doors,” she said. Following the likes of Wright Career College, Regency Beauty Institute, Marinello School […]

November 4, 2016

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Education Insider: Restoring Pell Grants for ITT Tech Students

People who used up some of their limited federal Pell grants to attend ITT or another for-profit college, only to see it close before they could graduate, are getting a reprieve from the U.S. Department of Education: They can have their Pell eligibility restored for the semesters they spent at the now-closed school. Restoring Pell […]

November 3, 2016

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Wounded Warriors Graduate

Today in Jacksonville, sixty wounded warriors graduated from a year long education program. Read More

November 3, 2016