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  1. Groups let vets email for education benefits help

    Two prominent veterans service organizations have announced a joint effort intended to help vets more quickly resolve problems with their education benefits.

  2. Top community colleges honored

    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.

  1. Free degrees — and they're legit

    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.

    • Apr. 22, 2013
  2. Trident reaffirms its accreditation

    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.

    • Apr. 22, 2013
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    More troops and families using Post-9/11 GI Bill

    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.

    • Apr. 15, 2013
  4. Marines assigned to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit attend a U.S. history class aboard the dock landing ship Rushmore on Dec. 28. They were using tuition assistance funds to enroll in courses offered by Central Texas College and Park University. The Marine Corps reopened tuition assistance Monday. Cpl. Timothy R. Childers / Marine Corps

    Marine Corps reopens tuition assistance

    The Marine Corps tuition assistance program is now accepting new enrollments, officials with the Corps’ Marine and Family Programs Division confirmed Friday.

    • Apr. 12, 2013
  5. In-state tuition for GI Bill sparks debate

    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.

    • Apr. 11, 2013
  6. Senators to DoD: Where’s the tuition assistance?

    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.

    • Apr. 4, 2013
  7. DoDEA may have to fit furloughs into just 2 months

    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.

    • Apr. 4, 2013
  8. Tuition aid will return, but questions remain

    Tuition 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.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
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    GI Bill in uniform: Use it and lose it

    Tuition 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.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
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    College Scorecard gathers data at single site

    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.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
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    OCS will test your mettle like never before

    Officer Candidate School will turn you into leadership material, but you’ll have to work for it.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
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    Your 5-step application checklist

    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.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
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    Save on college application fees

    Application rates to U.S. colleges and universities are soaring. Part of the reason? Panic.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
  10. Editorial: Stretch TA funding

    Congress acted quickly last week to restore tuition assistance funding after the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force abruptly suspended the program.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
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    Colleges team up for quick training in shale

    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.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
  11. Editorial: Mending tuition assistance

    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.

    • Mar. 18, 2013
  12. White House forced to consider reinstating TA

    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.

    • Mar. 18, 2013
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    Best for Vets: Business Schools 2013 methodology

    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.

    • Mar. 11, 2013
  13. Best for Vets: Business Schools 2013

    If you can lead troops into battle, can you also lead a Fortune 500 company to a better third-quarter earnings report?

    • Mar. 11, 2013
  14. Proposal would give in-state tuition to GI Bill vets

    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.

    • Jan. 25, 2013
  15. Take the anxiety out of applying to college

    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.

    • Jan. 25, 2013
  16. Get an edge in interviews at selective schools

    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.

    • Jan. 25, 2013
  17. Beef up your education with language training

    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.

    • Jan. 25, 2013
  18. 6 new majors: Game design, motor sports & more

    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.

    • Jan. 25, 2013
  19. Transfer smart

    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.

    • Jan. 25, 2013

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bfv logo Hundreds of U.S. colleges responded to our survey on how they recruit and support military veterans. See the top 4-year, 2-year and nontraditional schools.

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