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  1. Professor to teach gender studies courses at USAFA

  1. New complaint reporting system for schools on the way

    The federal government is testing, and plans to soon implement, a broad new complaint reporting system designed to root out the 'bad apples' among education institutions that serve troops and veterans, a Defense Department official told Congress.

  2. Schools scramble to support vets — is it working?

    Anthony Arnold left college his freshman year to enlist in the Navy. When he returned to finish his undergraduate degree five years later, he wasn't like everyone else. He was older. He was trained in military intelligence.

  1. Free media training program for vets starting in Connecticut

  2. Bills to lower vets' tuition face opposition from schools

  3. WWII vet gets high school diploma 8 decades later

  4. Learn more about repaying student loans

  5. Students make paracord bracelets to support Wounded Warriors

  6. DoD school director to retire in August

  7. GAO: VA should warn vets that GI Bill benefits may be delayed

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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.

    • May. 20, 2013

  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.

    • May. 20, 2013

  3. What's a 'Purple heart university'?

    Troy University announced last month that it was the country's first 'Purple Heart University.' If you're not entirely sure what that means, you're not alone.

    • May. 20, 2013

  4. Proposed compact could give online students more protections

    A proposed compact among the states unveiled in April would create a kind of common market for online education and make it easier for institutions to enroll students anywhere in the country.

    • May. 20, 2013

  5. Senate vet leaders join in-state tuition push

    A push to prevent public colleges and universities from charging student veterans out-of-state tuition took a leap forward Tuesday when Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee leaders joined the cause.

    • May. 15, 2013

  6. Bill proposes options to repay GI Bill overpayments

    Student veterans who were overpaid on their GI Bill benefits would get more time to repay the money under a bill introduced Monday by Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo.

    • May. 13, 2013
  7. Tim Sanford, a specialist in the Virginia Army National Guard, is a franchisee of Matco Tools in Alexandria, Va. Mike Morones / Staff

    Best for Vets: Franchises 2013

    After months or years of taking orders from guys with more stripes on their uniforms, how would you like to be your own boss on the civilian side?

    • May. 9, 2013

  8. West Points cadets show off class projects

    Some senior cadets at the U.S. Military Academy are showing off what they can do in the classroom.

    • May. 2, 2013

  9. Lawmakers want transition workshops to add GI Bill training

    Everyone attending military transition assistance workshops would have to attend specific briefings about how to get the most out of Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits under a bill passed Thursday by a House panel.

    • Apr. 25, 2013

  10. More online classes open up for aviation students

    More students than ever are flying through college on the Internet. For those seeking aviation degrees, though, the Federal Aviation Administration wants you to keep one foot on the ground — at least part of the time.

    • Apr. 22, 2013

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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
  14. The Army reinstated the Tuition Assistance Program through fiscal 2013. The program was suspended March 8. Sgt. Sarah E. Enos / Army

    Army restores tuition assistance

    The Army Tuition Assistance Program has been reinstated, and will remain available to qualified soldiers at least through fiscal 2013, which ends Sept. 30.

    • Apr. 10, 2013
  15. U.S. Military Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. David Huntoon arrives for a graduation and commissioning ceremony in West Point, N.Y. on May 26, 2012. The Army says the Pentagon's inspector general looked into an allegation of an improper relationship by Huntoon, but the claim was never substantiated. Mike Groll / AP file

    Army: No improper relationship for West Point head

    WEST POINT, N.Y. — The Pentagon’s inspector general said Monday an investigation found the U.S. Military Academy’s superintendent engaged in unspecified misconduct, while the Army said the probe cleared him of having an improper relationship.

    • Apr. 8, 2013

  16. 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

  17. 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
    • EDUCATION /

    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
    • EDUCATION /

    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
    • EDUCATION /

    Save on college application fees

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

    • Mar. 25, 2013
    • EDUCATION /

    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
    • EDUCATION /

    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

  23. Coast Guard reinstating tuition assistance

    The Coast Guard is reinstating tuition assistance for the fiscal year, the service announced Friday.

    • Mar. 22, 2013

  24. 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

  25. 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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