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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

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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

Merging Education, Labor Departments Likely to Impact Higher Ed

The White House announced plans Thursday to combine the federal education and labor departments, creating a Department of Education and the Workforce. Some academics described potential positive and negative implications for higher education.

June 21, 2018

Native Americans

As American as Apple Pie

America isn’t divided by pundits and peddlers. It isn’t divided by vacuous political labels that tell us little about people’s commitment to mutual progress. Our country is divided because promoting the politics of exclusion is as American as apple pie.

June 21, 2018

Court Upholds Conviction in Brown University Athlete Assault

PROVIDENCE, R.I. The Rhode Island Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a Connecticut man who assaulted a former Brown University basketball player, leaving him permanently impaired. The Providence Journal reports the court ruling Wednesday supported the felony assault conviction of 29-year-old Tory Lussier in the 2013 attack on Joseph Sharkey. Prosecutors say Lussier confronted […]

June 21, 2018

Community Colleges

Community College Research Center Gets New Director

Dr. Thomas Brock, a leader in research for the U.S. Department of Education, will be in a position to continue to grow his experience as a higher education influencer as the next director of the Community College Research Center (CCRC).

June 21, 2018

Deal Was to Pay MSU Lawyer $1.3M Even if Fired

Lansing – Two people familiar with the situation say Michigan State University’s new general counsel, appointed to help deal with fallout from the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal, would make nearly $1.3 million over three years even if he was let go before his contract ended. The people spoke Wednesday to the Associated Press on […]

June 21, 2018

Doctor Accused of Abuse at Ohio State Potentially Linked to Other Universities

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A now-dead doctor accused of sexual misconduct by former student athletes at Ohio State University said he acted as a team physician at other universities, most of which won’t say if they are reviewing those connections or whether any concerns were raised about him. Ohio State employment records reviewed by The Associated […]

June 21, 2018

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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American University President Affirms Contentious Tenure Denial

American University has upheld its decision to deny tenure to former professor Carolyn Brown, a broadcast journalist who appealed after she was the latest in a number of women who claimed that they were victims of a biased evaluation by former AU Provost Dr. Scott A. Bass.

June 20, 2018

AAUP Removes Sanctions from Two Schools

Following the 104th annual meeting of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) this week, delegates voted to remove the University of Iowa and Stillman College from its list of sanctioned institutions.

June 20, 2018

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