Veterans
Tim’s Tips: With GI Bills’ Billions at Stake, Colleges Compete to Lure Veterans
April 27, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education With GI Bill’s Billions at Stake, Colleges Compete to Lure Veterans By Libby Sander At the end of eight years in the United States Marine Corps, Paul Szoldra found himself at an impasse. He had just earned an associate degree from the University of Phoenix while stationed [...]
Tim’s Tips: Obama to Crack Down on Deceptive Practices by Colleges That Recruit Veterans
April 27, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education Obama to Crack Down on Deceptive Practices by Colleges That Recruit Veterans By Michael Stratford Washington President Obama will issue an executive order today that is designed to protect veterans, servicemembers, and their families from deceptive marketing practices by educational institutions that target them for their federal [...]
Tim’s Tips: GI Bill
GI Bill™ Inside Higher Education April 27, 2012 – 3:00am By Libby A. Nelson WASHINGTON — In their quest to tighten regulations on for-profit colleges, Congressional Democrats have turned to military and veterans’ benefit, proposing a slew of bills designed to control how those institutions recruit veterans and active-duty members of the armed forces…. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/27/obama-issues-executive-order-veterans-recruiting
Tim’s Tips: Veterans’ Group Names 26 For-Profits It Says Exploit Its Brand to Lure Students
April 26, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education Veterans’ Group Names 26 For-Profits It Says Exploit Its Brand to Lure Students By Libby Sander A national advocacy group for student veterans that kicked out 40 chapters at for-profit colleges this month for allegedly providing misleading information to prospective students plans to release on Thursday the [...]
Tim’s Tips: Veterans’ Group Lists For-Profits Where It Revoked Charters
Veterans’ Group Lists For-Profits Where It Revoked Charters Inside Higher Education April 26, 2012 – 4:33am The Student Veterans of America this month announced that it has suspended 40 chapters at for-profit institutions, saying that they were “using the SVA brand to legitimize their programs.” At the time, the group did not name the chapters. [...]
Tim’s Tips: Posse Spreads Its Approach to Veterans; Vassar Next
Posse Spreads Its Approach to Veterans; Vassar First Inside Higher Education April 24, 2012 – 3:00am More than 20 years ago, the Posse Foundation established a model in which it brought groups of historically underrepresented students (the “posses” of its name) to selective colleges, where their strength in numbers and the attention of their institutions [...]
Tim’s Tips: Veterans’ Debt Collectors
Veterans’ Debt Collectors Inside Higher Education April 11, 2012 – 3:00am By Libby A. Nelson WASHINGTON — The Veterans Affairs Department is planning to resume a policy of cutting into the tuition payments from the Post-9/11 GI Bill for veterans with outstanding debts, drawing protests from higher education associations who say that the policy will [...]
Tim’s Tips: Pentagon Alters Tuition Assistance
Pentagon Alters Tuition Assistance Inside Higher Education April 6, 2012 – 3:00am By Libby A. Nelson WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense appears to have softened a new memorandum of understanding for colleges participating in tuition assistance programs for active duty military service members, eliminating provisions that some campus officials said went too far in [...]
Tim’s Tips: An Ex-Soldier Finds a New Mission
April 1, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education An Ex-Soldier Finds a New Mission Living with injuries, a former medic aims to help other veterans By Libby Sander Takoma Park, Md. Matthew Reilly’s roundabout journey to college took a painful, decisive turn after a nighttime crash in Iraq…. (Note: May require subscription.) http://chronicle.com/article/An-Ex-Soldier-Finds-a-New/131394/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Tim’s Tips: Veterans Embrace Post-9/11 GI Bill, but Remain Wary of its Potential Costs
March 26, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education Veterans Embrace Post-9/11 GI Bill, but Remain Wary of Its Potential Costs By Libby Sander Washington A new survey of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars reveals that those who are using the Post-9/11 GI Bill to attend college have positive feelings about the opportunity—but that [...]