Blogs/Opinion

Federal Student Aid Enforcement Update: Protecting Military-Connected Students

Unfortunately, unscrupulous schools may be using aggressive and misleading recruiting practices to take advantage of service members, veterans, and military-connected students and the programs designed to benefit them.

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Operation Recognition Awards High School Diplomas to Veterans

CANTON — High school graduates across the country typically complete coursework and receive a diploma around age 18, but those who left high school in the mid-20th century to serve as members of the U.S. Armed Forces have a different story. While the Selective Service and Training Act took effect in October 1940, and thousands […]

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Aviation Industry

In a few milliseconds, electrical arcing in aircraft wiring can release thousands of joules of energy. This is enough to ignite wire insulation, pierce hydraulic lines, and compromise critical flight-control subsystems. The aviation industry urgently needs reliable arc-fault detection and mitigation measures. Going on decades now, academic and commercial research on the subject continues because […]

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Debt management

The VA Debt Management Center just announced it reduced call wait times by over 75 percent while also increasing calls taken by 40 percent from 2016 to 2018. As part of the agency’s veteran-focused initiatives, they agency reduced call wait times from 21 minutes in 2016 to under 5 minutes during 2018. The initiatives include […]

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Vets’ Education

The Military Times just released its, “Best Schools for Vets” rankings. Rankings were determined after hundreds of schools were reviewed on issues that vets say are most important to them, including great academics and a strong veteran culture. Read more

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Blind Veterans

As Veterans Day approaches, we can expect to see news reports featuring wounded warriors in rehabilitation, learning how to use their new prosthetic limbs. These scenes are heartrending and hopeful. But not often shared are reports about veterans who don’t see — the 1 million veterans who have suffered visual impairment and the 130,000 who […]

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GI Bill

VBA may have lauded its decision to disband the Office of Economic Opportunity, formerly led by Deputy Under Secretary Curtis Coy, until it created a new backlog of the Forever GI Bill veterans’ claims approaching well over 100,000 veterans. In October, reports originally surfaced that around 100,000 veterans did not timely receive their monthly subsistence payment […]

Online Learning & Military

Exploring the expansion of the online learning model, this article examines how this expansion has influenced the military student. Looking at the online and for profit expansion and ensuing lull, the underlying reasoning for declining enrollment, increasing attrition, and non-completion rates among these schools are explored. Varying online social media outlets are used to contact […]

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Fraudulent For-Profits

Hundreds of thousands of veterans attend institutions of higher education with help from the GI Bill. These are benefits that veterans rightfully earn by virtue of service to our country. But their benefits are in danger from conniving, unaccredited for-profit colleges. Last year’s GI Bill update restored the benefits to veterans defrauded by two for-profit […]

Understanding Transition

As business owners, we look for key talent to grow our organizations and stay competitive. Today, employers are faced with greater challenges in hiring and retaining talent and may be overlooking a unique and experienced workforce — the military veteran. Veterans bring tremendous skills, talents and experience to their civilian careers. While some of their […]

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Getting Release Forms

If you’re a servicemember who is returning to civilian life, one of the critical administrative jobs you need to complete is obtaining a copy of your DD-214 (Certificate of Release or Discharge). What you probably don’t know, however, is how difficult it can be to access this document. Most DD-214s are kept at the National […]

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ROTC Overlooked

The Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) sits at a natural juncture between the military and society, operating on numerous college campuses across the country. ROTC Cadets are integrated into the broader university community while they train to be officers in the US Military. As universities begin the academic year, both the military services and […]

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