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GI Bill, Part 2: More Veterans Enrolling

Connie Beckel was puzzled when she saw numbers begin to tick up. Seton Hill University, with an enrollment of 2,500 students, typically saw no more than 10 veterans a year at its Greensburg campus. Then, Congress enacted the Post-9/11 GI Bill in 2008. In recent years, the private Catholic university has counted an average of […]

March 28, 2017

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GI Bill, Part 1: “Cash Cow” for Some Schools

Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series looking at the way the GI Bill is used in Western Pennsylvania. The second part will appear Monday. Shortly after the Art Institute of Pittsburgh—Online Division hired LaMont Jones as a recruiter in 2009, the school launched a push to recruit military veterans — and […]

March 28, 2017

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Do More to Reduce Debt

Vanessa Brewer grew up with aspirations to become the first member of her family to earn a college degree. She excelled in high school but struggled early in her college career at the University of Texas at Austin to find her place. She began to question herself and the abilities that had enabled her to […]

March 24, 2017

“Open Cloud Academy” Offers Tech Training

SAN ANTONIO – Rackspace’s Open Cloud Academy is celebrating four years. 559 students have already graduated from the program. One of those graduates is Ruben Apolinar, who used to be a fast food worker. He graduated from the school in 2015. “I had always been into technology, and I heard from a friend that this […]

March 24, 2017

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Trident U. Hires Veteran for Services

Mark A. Weedon has joined Trident University International’s (Trident) Outreach & Partnerships team as Senior Director of Military and Veteran Affairs. Weedon is a 29-year veteran of the United States Army, serving in many capacities while in the military. In his new role, Weedon will directly oversee and manage Trident’s geographically dispersed Regional Managers, as […]

March 24, 2017

Military Experts Explain Benefits

Across the nation, military veterans, active duty service members and reservists receive benefits in several areas as an expression of gratitude for their service. In education benefits, Texas military members are offered state benefits, along with federal, as a bonus appreciation. Tim Miller, program coordinator for the Military & Veterans Program at Tech, explained how […]

March 24, 2017

Lawmaker Offers Bill to Enhance Aid for Troops

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), a member of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, introduced the Educational Development (ED) for Troops and Veterans Act, legislation to improve higher education opportunities for troops and military families. “We need to make it as easy as possible for Ohio service members to use the education […]

March 24, 2017

Bill Seeks Break for Employers Who Help Students

As student loan defaults rise at a double-digit pace, a bill recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives seeks to grant favorable tax status when U.S. companies provide money to help employees pay off student loan debt. H.R. 795, the Employer Participation in Student Loan Assistance Act, would amend the federal tax code to […]

March 24, 2017

Military Provides Edge to Pay for Grad School

The Post-9/11 GI Bill provides former service members – and their family members – financial support to pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees as well as on-the-job training following their military service. This financial benefit, the level of which varies depending on the veteran’s length of service, helps former service members pursue their education goals. For […]

March 24, 2017

Momentum Builds for “Free College’ Programs

SAN MARCOS, Calif. — Like many American high school seniors, Rynon Reyes is looking ahead to college with a mix of apprehension and excitement. But there’s one thing he doesn’t have to worry about: tuition. While their counterparts in most of the rest of the country are already facing the first of what will likely […]

March 24, 2017

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Give Private Schools “Free Tuition” Too

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to provide free tuition for students at New York’s public colleges and universities should be expanded to include private institutions, Wells College President Jonathan Gibralter said Monday. Gibralter wrote an open letter to Cuomo that was published on Wells College’s Facebook page. He praised the governor’s push to establish a tuition-free […]

March 23, 2017

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Students Fear Cuts to Pell Grants

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – A proposed cut to federal financial aid could impact thousands of students at colleges and universities across Georgia and South Carolina. NewsChannel 6 spoke with students about how drastic the cuts would be if President Trump gets Congress to adopt his new budget. There are several proposed cuts in President Trump’s […]

March 23, 2017

N.Y. Lawmakers Reject Cap on Private Tuition

State Senate and Assembly majorities have rejected Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposal to force private colleges and universities to impose a limit on increasing tuition or risk the loss of state aid for its students. Separate from the Excelsior Scholarship proposal, but related to it, is essentially a tuition cap where Gov. Cuomo proposed to […]

March 23, 2017

N.M. In-State Tuition Is Most Affordable

Tuition rates for in-state students at public colleges and universities are lower in New Mexico than in any other state in the nation, a new report says. Student Loan Hero, an Austin, Texas-based student loan management company, used U.S. Department of Education data to calculate the average cost per credit hour for residents to attend […]

March 23, 2017

Parents in G.I. Bill Case Give Gift of Life

EAGLE, Idaho — In 2015, three years after the death of their 16-year-old daughter, Heidi and Ted Hill met the woman who received their youngest child’s heart. The Washington woman, now 35, had a stethoscope at her house and allowed the couple to listen to the heartbeat. “It was joyful. It wasn’t sad at all,” […]

March 23, 2017

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California Initiative Serves Student Veterans

VENTURA – The Ventura County Community College District Veterans Resource Center Coordinators from Moorpark College, Oxnard College and Ventura College met with managers from California Lutheran University, California State University, Channel Islands, and National University to discuss best practices for helping student veterans achieve success. Leading the discussion was VCCCD Trustee Larry Kennedy, Chancellor Bernard […]

March 23, 2017

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Bio Challenge Hopes to Draw Veterans

Virginia Beach is partnering with The Center for Advancing Innovation to create the VABeachBio Innovation Challenge. The initiative will bring together entrepreneurs, industry and inventors who will compete to turn inventions from research labs into successful startup companies. In a news release, the city said the challenge also seeks to help the region’s large concentration […]

March 23, 2017

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Case Western Adds First M.A. in Military Ethics

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Case Western Reserve University has established the nation’s first graduate program in military ethics. The Master of Arts in Military Ethics program formalizes a field of study that contends with questions of how advancing military technologies relate to the common humanity of both enemy and ally, the university said. While the study […]

March 23, 2017

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