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College Keeps Aviation Program, Benefits Restored

After considering ending its aviation science program due to suspended benefits to military veteran students by Department of Veterans Affairs, Klamath Community College is keeping its program in place. It is enrolling new students for its aviation science ground school preferably by Friday, March 31 and until spring term begins Monday, April 2. KCC President […]

March 30, 2018

College Keeps Aviation

Global Business Employs Transitioning Military

A global engineering services company is giving unique opportunities to veterans, including right here in southern Colorado. Kelly Terrien is the President and CEO of Summit Technical Solutions (STS), and she said it’s important to give back to those who have risked their lives for our freedom. “Men and women who have served in our […]

March 30, 2018

Jobless Rates for Vets

Vets Head West to Fight Wildfires

Sand and gravel crunched under the pounding boots of about 150 men and women walking and jogging on a recent rain-drenched morning at Paramount Ranch in the Santa Monica mountains. The wildland firefighter hopefuls were tackling a fitness test. They had to cover three miles of outdoor terrain with a 45-pound pack on their chests […]

March 30, 2018

Vets Fight Wildfires

Bill Introduced to Have Veterans, Ex-Police Guard Schools

In the wake of this weekend’s March for Our Lives, lawmakers are looking forward to gun law reform. The March for Our Lives rally in Washington was a show of force and an outcry for those affected by gun violence. Protestors demand action saying enough is enough. Congressman Tom Marino (R-PA 10th District) introduced new legislation […]

March 30, 2018

Vets Police Guarding Schools

DOD May Raise Cap on Tuition Aid for Deployed

The Defense Department may ease tuition assistance rules for deployed service members to make it easier for them to take classes, a DoD official said Tuesday. “They have extra time on their hands, in some cases, and they want to do more,” said Dawn Bilodeau, chief of DoD Voluntary Education. The DoD tuition assistance program, […]

March 30, 2018

DOD Tuition Aid

Shulkin: “It Should Not Be This Hard…”

Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin does not appear to be happy about his sudden firing Wednesday evening. In a New York Times op-ed published Wednesday night, Shulkin praised his own record in office while lamenting the challenges of serving in President Trump’s administration. “As I prepare to leave government, I am struck by a recurring thought: It should […]

March 30, 2018

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Author Wins Order For Release of University of Montana Rape Case Records

HELENA, Mont. — A judge has ordered the conditional release of records about a University of Montana rape case to author Jon Krakauer after a four-year dispute that pitted student privacy against the public’s right to know the decisions their government agencies make. But the legal wrangling likely isn’t over yet, and the records’ release […]

March 29, 2018

University of Florida Pays $67K For White Nationalist Event

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida has paid a local county government more than $67,000 to cover security costs for a speaking event last fall featuring white nationalist Richard Spencer. The Gainesville Sun reported Wednesday that UF sent Alachua County a check for $67,461.11 that school officials felt covered costs for the event. The […]

March 29, 2018

University Recovers Money It Paid To Doctor After His Death

FARMINGTON, Conn. — The University of Connecticut says it has recovered more than $50,000 it paid to a slain researcher while it believed he was working from home. Dr. Pierluigi Bigazzi was a professor of laboratory science and pathology at UConn Health whose body was discovered in February wrapped in plastic inside the house he […]

March 29, 2018

Legacy of Black Scholar-Activist is Topic of Forum, New Book

Colleagues and friends discussed the legacy of scholar and civil rights activist Dr. Ronald Walters in a forum this week in connection with the recent publication of a new book about his life by Dr. Robert C. Smith.

March 29, 2018

UN-Inspired Campus Project Challenges Bias, Promotes Social Justice

Appalachian State University students are participating in a campus-wide Global Peacebuilding Project, a competition inspired by a United Nations contest in which students create social justice initiatives meant to challenge discrimination.

March 29, 2018

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“You Don’t Look Like a Professor”

Routinely experiencing gendered-raced microaggressions in institutions of higher education is nothing new to women of color. How do we contest such incidents? My remedy is “micro-affirmations.”

March 29, 2018

The Case For Education

In The Case Against Education, Dr. Bryan Caplan, a professor of economics at George Mason University and a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, pushes all the buttons sure to infuriate those on the left and the right.

March 29, 2018

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Women’s History Month: Honoring Women in Combat

Women’s History Month, celebrated in March, highlights the important contributions of women to our nation, both historically and in today’s society. Women like Deborah Sampson, the first American women to serve in combat, have played vital roles in our Army since the Revolutionary War. Sampson disguised herself as a man to enlist in the Continental […]

March 29, 2018

Womens History Month

College 101: Online Learning

We live our entire lives online these days: Americans spend an average of 24 hours a week online. So, why shouldn’t we learn online, too? There’s no reason at all why we shouldn’t, actually, because learning online, and even earning degrees via the web, is a perfectly reasonable thing to do in 2018. That’s not to […]

March 29, 2018

Syracuse Online Law Program

Fort Bragg, U.S.O. Team Up to Help Departing Troops

Fort Bragg and one of its nonprofit partners are teaming up to help service members launch new careers. The installation’s Soldier for Life – Transition Assistance Program and the USO of North Carolina will host a free transition expo and hiring fair next month. The event will take place April 24-26 and include panel discussions, […]

March 29, 2018

Veteran Suicide at V.A. Medical Center

St. Louis police reported Monday that a veteran suicide occurred in the waiting room of John Cochran VA Medical Center. Authorities in VA informed the public that a veteran killed himself in the waiting room at 4:19 AM Monday. He was 62 years old. “We are grieved to confirm that a Veteran was found deceased in our […]

March 29, 2018

Report: New York For-Profit Schools Fall Short

New York’s for-profit colleges leave students with huge debt and have little impact on earning potential, according to a new report published by The Century Foundation. The foundation, a New York City-based public policy think tank, compared student outcomes at 427 colleges and universities, including 112 public, 196 nonprofit and 119 for-profit institutions. The report, […]

March 29, 2018

New York Colleges