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AT&T funds Military Education Program

Through a grant from AT&T, the National Infantry Museum is preparing to link high school ROTC students with active duty and retired military personnel next week in an one-day educational effort. Monday, AT&T Regional Director for External Affairs Terry Smith, a Navy veteran, presented National Infantry Museum officials with a $35,000 check that will fund […]

Academy Investigates Racial Intimidation Case

NEW LONDON, Conn. — The U.S. Coast Guard Academy says it is investigating a report that a white male cadet may have tried to intimidate an African-American cadet based on his race. The academy in New London said it received a report of an incident Friday but, it did not provide additional details. The Coast […]

Report: Top Public Universities Shut Out Poor Students

Graduating from a selective college can help low-income students climb the economic ladder, but many of the nation’s top public universities are turning their backs on the group. Since the late 1990s, almost two-thirds of selective public universities have reduced the share of students they enroll who come from families earning less than $37,000 a […]

Certain For-Profit Colleges Leave Veterans in a Bind

Terry Jack will be the first one to tell you he has made his share of mistakes. By his own account, the Army veteran from Tucson, Arizona, has been twice convicted of a DUI. He says the second time — which occurred in 2014 — cost him 90 days in jail, and his driver’s license […]

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University Offers a $10,000 Online Degree: Discourages It for Freshmen

COMMERCE — In 2011, when Gov. Rick Perry urged Texas universities to find a way to offer degrees for less than $10,000, many in the higher education world scoffed. Texas A&M University-Commerce leapt into action. Within two years, the East Texas school had developed a program that allowed students to earn an online bachelor’s degree […]

Medical Program on Base Graduates Liberian Student

FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS – Pfc. Yardy Collins holds the distinction of being the first international student from Liberia to graduate from the preventive medicine specialist program at the Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston October 20. Collins, from Monrovia, joined the Liberian army because of his desire […]

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Many Afghan Military Trainees Going A.W.O.L. in U.S.

Nearly half of the foreign troops training in the U.S. who go absent without leave are from Afghanistan, a government watchdog report said Friday. Of the 352 foreign troops who were absent without leave since 2005 in the U.S., 152 were from Afghanistan, according to the report by the Office of the Special Inspector General […]

Database Change Broadens View of Outcomes

One big flaw of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Database System (IPEDS) has been fixed. The U.S. Department of Education has revamped its higher education database to begin tracking non-traditional students — the ones who aren’t attending school full-time or aren’t entering college as freshmen right from high school — an additional 650,000 people. According to […]

Research Examines Learning Potential

New Morgridge College of Education Assistant Professor of Research Methods and Information Science, Denis Dumas, recently published research that could potentially change the way educational researchers understand student learning capacity, and the way students are tested in school. The humble beginnings of a new testing model. “Dynamic Measurement Modeling: Using Nonlinear Growth Models to Estimate […]

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University of Colorado to End Course Fees

BOULDER, Colo. — The University of Colorado is eliminating all course and program fees starting in the fall of 2018. The Daily Camera reports that the eliminated fees will collectively save students $8.4 million per year. Chancellor Phil DiStefano announced the commitment to lowering costs for students at the university’s annual State of the Campus […]

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University Offers 3-Year Bachelor’s, 1-Year Master’s

There are two major barriers to completing a college degree and they are time and money, according to Paul Percy, provost and executive vice president at Carson-Newman University. “The longer people stay in school, the longer they have to keep finding ways to come up with money, to pay for school and for money to […]

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University of Illinois leads $25M military initiative

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The University of Illinois is leading a $25 million initiative to develop an “internet of battlefield things.” Officials say the initiative aims to have humans and technology work together in a seamless network. They say the initiative will connect soldiers with smart technology in armor, radios, weapons and other objects to give […]

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