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Two prominent veterans service organizations have announced a joint effort intended to help vets more quickly resolve problems with their education benefits.
Walla Walla Community College in Washington state and Santa Barbara City College in California were awarded the prestigious Aspen Prize for 2013 for success in attracting, retaining and graduating students into jobs and four-year universities.
Some 60-plus colleges in six states are taking a little-used but seemingly obvious step to boost graduation rates: scouring school databases to track down former students who unknowingly qualify for degrees.
Trident University International, a major tuition assistance school that had run into trouble with its accrediting agency, is back in good standing with the Western Association of Schools & Colleges.
Spouses and children of service members made up almost one-fourth of Post-9/11 GI Bill users last year, and their numbers appear to be growing, according to data provided by the Veterans Affairs Department.
The Marine Corps tuition assistance program is now accepting new enrollments, officials with the Corps’ Marine and Family Programs Division confirmed Friday.
Veteran service organizations and some lawmakers expressed support for a bill to push public colleges and universities to offer in-state tuition rates to all veterans, but university advocacy groups, as well as the Veterans Affairs Department, are not on board.
The two senators who led the charge to save tuition assistance from budget cuts want to know what’s taking the Defense Department so long to restart the benefits pipeline.
Defense officials have reduced the number of required furlough days for civilian employees, but military school officials are now faced with the possibility of having to squeeze the furloughs into an even shorter time frame.
Tuition aid will return, but questions remainTuition assistance has been rescued by Congress after thousands of troops complained when most of the services suspended the popular education benefit as a cost-cutting move.
GI Bill in uniform: Use it and lose itTuition assistance may have been revived — at least for this fiscal year — but if the program comes into the budget-cutting crosshairs again, you may want to think twice before using your GI Bill benefits as a replacement, at least while you’re still on active duty.
Families hunting for colleges now can find such financial information as cost, average student debt and loan default rates of individual institutions at a single federal website.
Officer Candidate School will turn you into leadership material, but you’ll have to work for it.
Colleges have done a lot to simplify the application process thanks to the Internet. In some cases, one application works for a number of schools. But you still should approach the applications carefully to be sure you’ve done everything a school has asked.
Application rates to U.S. colleges and universities are soaring. Part of the reason? Panic.
Editorial: Stretch TA fundingCongress acted quickly last week to restore tuition assistance funding after the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force abruptly suspended the program.
One student was a homeless man with welding experience who slept in a tent throughout training. Two were brothers from Indiana who drove to Pennsylvania and stayed in a motel room for four weeks. Another was a veteran just home from being stationed in Korea.
When the services suddenly announced they were pulling way back on tuition assistance for all troops, tens of thousands were left wondering how they would fulfill their educational ambitions — or even whether they could complete the current semester.
The White House will have to consider reinstating tuition assistance for troops after a petition on its official website garnered more than 100,000 signatures.
Some 100 colleges and universities responded to our first-ever survey of business schools. Only institutions that said they offer graduate-level business degrees, and that participated in our rigorous Best for Vets: Colleges survey, the results of which published in November, were considered in this review.
If you can lead troops into battle, can you also lead a Fortune 500 company to a better third-quarter earnings report?
A powerful lawmaker could ease the way for student veterans using the Post-9/11 GI Bill to avoid paying out-of-state tuition at public schools.
Navy veteran Tim Martin's decision to apply to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2007 filled him with apprehension. A previous college attempt years before had not gone well for the former aviation electrician's mate second class.
The good news: The Post-9/11 GI Bill has put many selective schools within financial reach for veterans. The bad news: Selective schools are flooded with applicants and acceptance rates are slipping downward.
Maybe you've heard this one before: If someone who speaks three languages is called trilingual and someone who speaks two languages is called bilingual, what do you call someone who speaks one language? An American.
Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits about to be burning a hole in your pocket — but you can't decide where to go to school or even what you want to major in? Maybe news of these new degree programs will provide the right spark of inspiration.
When former Navy Reserve Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Russo was ready to go for his bachelor's degree at American Military University after earning an associate degree at Ashworth College, the intelligence studies graduate worked hard to ensure his transfer to a new school was a seamless one.
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