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DeVos to Miss Deadline on Fraud Protections

WASHINGTON — The Education Department says it’ll miss a key deadline in its push to ease regulations for for-profit colleges. A rule being drafted by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is meant to lower protections for students swindled by their schools. So the delay, laid out in a court filing late Tuesday, is a victory for […]

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Course Gets Senior NCOs Ready for Post-Army Life

Twelve sergeants major and one spouse gathered for the second Soldier for Life – Transition Assistance Program’s Nominative Command Sergeants Major and Sergeants Major Course Sept. 17-21 at the Resiliency Center. The course, which was originally piloted in May with 16 sergeants major participating, is tailored to better fit the needs of senior noncommissioned officers […]

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MOOCs Find a New Audience on Campus

Colleges have been searching for new ways to make use of the massive open online courses they created ever since the fad died down several years ago. The latest idea: encourage residential students to take them—not for credit, but to fulfill prerequisites or just for personal enrichment. Read more

East Tennessee Opens Center for Military-Affiliated Students

JOHNSON CITY, TN – Students who are veterans or the family of veterans have a new place to go on the ETSU campus. The Office of Veterans Affairs at East Tennessee State University dedicated their new Military-Affiliated Student Recourse Center (MARC) this morning. Formerly known as the Veterans Lounge since its opening in 2013, the […]

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Non-Resident Training Courses, Rate Training Manuals Move to Navy e-Learning

PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) — Beginning Oct. 1, Sailors will access Navy Non-Resident Training Courses (NRTC) and Rate Training Manuals (RTM) exclusively through the Navy e-Learning (NeL) and My Navy Portal (MNP) websites. Used primarily to prepare for advancement exams or to expand life-cycle rating knowledge, 159 NRTC and RTM self-study packages previously available through the […]

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Program Gives College Credit for Military Experience

Texas State’s partnership with College Credit for Heroes is giving service members the ability to earn college credit for skills learned in the military. The program, created by the Texas legislature in 2011, accelerates the rate at which military members obtain their college degree, workforce certificate or licensing program. Texas State has offered the program […]

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Year after Maria, Military Students Face Daily Struggles

Going to law school is hard. Going to law school after a devastating hurricane is a scale of magnitude harder. In the weeks and months after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island of Puerto Rico last year, the Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law and its tight-knit group of student veterans had to […]

Army Report Blames Overconfidence for Training Accident

BURLINGTON, Vt. — A U.S. Army accident report suggests overconfidence was a factor when Vermont soldiers were hit by an avalanche during a training exercise. The Burlington Free Press reported that an instructor in the heavily redacted report said soldiers underestimated the overall avalanche risk and overestimated their ability to mitigate conditions. Six soldiers were […]

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U.K. Partners With Military to Study Optimal Fitness

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The University of Kentucky has been awarded a contract from the Defense Department to study physical and mental fitness. WKYT-TV reports UK President Eli Capilouto announced the $4 million partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense and the Office of Naval Research. He said the research would focus on determining optimal fitness […]

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Naval Academy Cybersecurity Receives Accreditation

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The U.S. Naval Academy’s cyber operations program has been formally accredited. The academy said the program was accredited recently by ABET, a leading nonprofit accrediting agency. Three other universities also were accredited under the new cybersecurity criteria: the U.S. Air Force Academy, Towson University and Southeast Missouri State University. A cyber operations […]

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Nontraditional Students Become the Norm

Nontraditional might be the new traditional for university students. According to a 2018 NPR article highlighting a research study, there has been a nation-wide increase in nontraditional student enrollment at universities. Nontraditional students at the University are increasing at a slow but steady pace and facing unique challenges in their campus and personal lives. According […]

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College Graduates Choosing Military to Help Pay Off Loans

Senior Christopher Rogers chose Emerson to create a career out of journalism. Now, with over $100,000 in student debt, Rogers will join the military after graduation for its student loan forgiveness programs. Each year, Rogers said he needs to take out roughly $20,000 to $30,000 to attend Emerson. Before he applied, he knew money could become an issue, […]

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