One of the perks of serving in the military is being able to go to college on the Defense Department’s dime.
But the number of service members taking advantage of this education benefit — often hailed as a key military recruitment and retention tool — has been declining in recent years, with all branches seeing drops in fiscal 2017, federal data show.
A new study by Purdue University researchers shows veterans who had service dogs to help with PTSD were much better off psychologically than their peers who were on a waiting list to receive an animal.
Purdue University will launch its new online school next month after clearing the final hurdle in a roughly year-long approval process, school officials announced Monday.
The new online university born out of an unlikely relationship between a public, land-grant institution and a for-profit college will be called Purdue University Global, officials announced Thursday.
The (Lafayette) Journal and Courier reports that the commission’s unanimous Thursday vote is the first of three major approvals that Purdue needs to start operating the online university. The online school would stem from Purdue’s recent acquisition of for-profit Kaplan University and is being referred to as “NewU” until an official name is chosen.
