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Section: Military

Getting In

It’s admissions season, and across the country, thousands of admissions officers sit in front of screens, reading files full of transcripts, test scores, extracurricular profiles, letters of recommendation, and, of course, essays. I was once one of these officers, spending emotionally exhausting 12-hour days reviewing thousands of applications from Ivy League hopefuls over a span […]

February 2, 2018

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Dartmouth Business Program Helps Vets

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Paul Movizzo spent 30 years in the Navy as an aviator piloting an E-2C Hawkeye early warning radar detection plane, as well as commanding a team involved in electromagnetic warfare. But despite the high-pressure and leadership assignments — which included serving on the U.S. Embassy staff in Baghdad — Movizzo felt […]

February 2, 2018

Scholarships Available for Service Members, Vets, Families

This year, more than one million service members, veterans and their families are enrolled in college courses. With that in mind, the Virginia Advisory Council on Military Education (VA-ACME) continues a commitment to supporting education within the Virginia military community. We are pleased to announce that VA-ACME will award multiple $1,000 scholarships at the annual […]

February 2, 2018

Veteran Goes From Enlisted to Enrolled

On the top floor of Lowell Heiny Hall at Colorado Mesa University, the Student Veteran Services office strives to assist former military members throughout their college careers. Cody Kem, who served in the Navy from 2009 to 2014, works at Student Veteran Services and uses his own military experience to be a resource for other […]

February 2, 2018

Testimony: Put College Accountability First

Federal student aid is a deal between taxpayers, students, and institutions. When students don’t keep up their end of the bargain, the federal government hits them hard—wrecking their credit, docking their wages, or seizing their tax refunds or Social Security checks. But there’s almost no accountability when colleges break their promises or repeatedly fail to […]

February 2, 2018

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82nd Airborne Increases Transition Efforts

FORT BRAGG, NC — The 82nd Airborne Division hosted its third, “Paratroopers For Life,” forum inside the Division headquarters at Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 25, 2018. The Division, America’s Guard of Honor, launched the PFLF in December 2016 to assist Paratroopers that are separating from the U.S. Army with easier transitions to civilian life. Read […]

February 2, 2018

Report: Student Borrowing Drops, Grant Funding Rises

The 2015-2016 National Postsecondary Education Student Aid Study (NPSAS:16) showed an overall decline in student loan borrowing compared to its 2011-2012 counterpart, NPSAS:12. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) publishes this study every four years on financial aid, and it provides data on loans, grants, work-study, and other financial aid options from federal, state, […]

February 2, 2018

California Online College Targets Working Adults

To open up access to higher education for more people, the California Community College system and Governor Jerry Brown are looking to launch an online-only community college. The college would be designed to serve working adults who want to upgrade their skill set or complete a post-secondary program but for whom personal responsibilities or distance […]

February 2, 2018

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Military “Myths” Hinder Recruitment

Seventeen years of war, TV spots depicting the struggles of wounded warriors, and curbs on military advertising budgets have left the armed forces with an image problem that could take years to repair, said a senior Defense official. Unsettling myths about the military are rising among recruit-age youth and “influencers” — parents, teachers, clergy and […]

February 2, 2018

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Stop Abuses

In 2015, the collapse of the behemoth Corinthian Colleges, which had been taking in up to $1.4 billion in federal dollars annually, and the subsequent collapse of the giant ITT Tech cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and left thousands of students with enormous student loan debt and no degree or diploma to show […]

February 1, 2018

Startup Wants a Piece of Drone Market

WILMINGTON, Del. — A 2016 report from PwC priced the emerging global market for business services using drones at $127 billion. Drone sales are expected to eclipse $12 billion in 2021, a Business Insider report suggested in August. There’s a startup in Delaware looking to get a piece of the action. Founded by the husband […]

February 1, 2018

Seminar Helps Student Vets Shift into Gear

Showing that military veterans and other nontraditional students bring a wealth of real-world experience with them to college, T.K. Stoudt, who served in the Air Force for 32 years, is pursuing his doctorate in the University of Wyoming’s College of Education and teaching an innovative first-year seminar for incoming freshmen veterans. The class’s research component […]

February 1, 2018

Deputies Protect Teacher After Anti-Military Rant

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies are monitoring for threats against a Pico Rivera teacher who made disparaging remarks against the military and the student who secretly recorded him — both online and in their neighborhoods. “There has been a firestorm described as mean comments. No threats of bodily injury at this point,” Capt. Patrick Valdez […]

February 1, 2018

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How a 20-Year-Old Found Military Soft Spot

Twenty-year-old college student Nathan Ruser has an interest in the Syrian conflict and an affinity for maps. It’s this combination that led him to discover the potential security risks posed by fitness app Strava. On Saturday, the Australian came across a tweet of Strava’s global heatmap, which was originally published in November 2017. Ruser noticed […]

February 1, 2018

Program Offers Preparation for New Life

“I came into the military when I was 18 years old; this is my first job,” said TAP attendee Chief Master Sgt. Anthony Roane, Air Mobility Command Director of Logistics. “A lot has changed over the past 27 years. TAP helps a person like me catch up with the times of what is on the […]

February 1, 2018

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Details Scarce on Wounded Warrior Dismissal

Marine officials are releasing few details after the commanding officer was relieved of command and two staff members were placed on leave within Wounded Warrior Battalion East. Lt. Col. Chris Hrudka was relieved of command by Wounded Warrior Regiment Commanding Officer Col. Larry Miller on Jan. 29 due to “a loss of trust and confidence,” […]

February 1, 2018

D.O.E. Eyes Major Cuts in Loan Forgiveness

WASHINGTON — The Education Department’s plan to provide only partial relief to some students defrauded by for-profit colleges could reduce overall payments by about 60 percent, according to a preliminary analysis obtained by The Associated Press. The agency announced in December that it was discontinuing the Obama administration’s practice of fully wiping out the loans […]

February 1, 2018

Hire Them

The U.S. Department of Labor recently reported that the unemployment rate for post-9/11 military veterans dropped to 4.2 percent in 2017 – one of the lowest rates since 2007. And while much is being done to support our nation’s most recent veterans, many steps still need to be taken to remove the roadblocks to employing […]

January 30, 2018

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