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Academics

Clovis Students Who Chose Military Service Over College Honored at Annual Dinner

Clovis Unified students going on to join the armed forces after graduation were celebrated Wednesday. The third annual Patriot’s Dinner took place at the Clovis Veterans Memorial District to honor the seniors who have either enlisted to serve, are enrolled in ROTC programs or military academies. Read More

Veterans

What Do Military Service Members Think About Diversity — Especially Gender Diversity — in Their Ranks?

Following a Supreme Court decision in January, the Pentagon confirmed April 15 that it would effectively ban transgender people from attending the U.S. Naval Academy and other service academies starting in the fall of 2020. We wanted to examine what Naval Academy midshipmen think about diversity in general and about gender nonconformity in particular. Read More

Veterans

Combat Veteran Turned Paralympian to Address SUU’s Graduating Class of 2019

Patriot and American war hero, three-time world champion paratriathlete and Paralympic medalist Melissa Stockwell will be the keynote speaker at Southern Utah University’s 120th annual commencement ceremony Friday. “We’re honored at the opportunity to have a military veteran and paratriathlete share her story at this year’s graduation,” Mindy Benson, vice president of alumni and community relations, said […]

Policy

DoD Officials Make Case for Keeping the Draft, Women Included

The Selective Service System is an “inexpensive insurance policy” against a national emergency and should be modified to include women, a senior Defense Department official implied Wednesday during a hearing on the future of draft registration in the U.S. Asked whether requiring women to register for a potential draft would “result in a more lethal […]

Academics

Camden Military Academy Celebrates 60 Years

Camden Military Academy (CMA), the official military academy of South Carolina, will celebrate a huge milestone this spring: 60 years of operation. Last fall marked the 60th school-year registration at CMA, and 2019 seniors will march across the stage in May for the 60th presentation of diplomas. While CMA’s roots extend back to 1892, the […]

Academics

Former West Point Superintendent Won’t Be USC’s Next President

After a seven-month search, a week of interviews with four finalists and a day of protests, the University of South Carolina board of trustees voted Friday to continue searching for a president to succeed Harris Pastides. The board named Brendan Kelly, the chancellor at USC Upstate, as interim president. He will take on the new […]

Academics

UT Austin Freshman Claims He Lost AROTC Scholarship As Result of Transgender Military Ban

University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) freshman Map Pesqueira claims he lost his three-year scholarship through the college’s Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (AROTC) program because he is transgender. The three-year scholarship goes into effect Pesquiera’s sophomore year, however, because he is transgender, he has been prohibited from using the scholarship because of a […]

Veterans

Retired Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen, Hired to ‘Lead Change’ at UCF, is Finalist For South Carolina Job

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen Jr., hired to “lead change” at UCF after school leaders acknowledged the use or planned misuse of more than $85 million in leftover operating funds for construction, is a finalist for the president’s job at the University of South Carolina. The University of Central Florida tapped Caslen, 65, in January to serve […]

Academics

Are The Schools That Get The Most GI Bill Money Spending The Least on Teaching?

Some of the schools that receive the most Post-9/11 GI Bill money spend the least on teaching students, a new report suggests. The study, conducted by the nonprofit group Veterans Education Success, analyzed more than 4,600 higher-education institutions and found that in 2017, 427 of those schools spent less than 30 percent of their gross […]

Academics

This Leading GI Bill And TA School is Getting a New Name

University of Maryland University College, one of the top destinations for troops and vets in higher education, will change its name to University of Maryland Global Campus, the school announced Thursday. The name change, which officially takes effect July 1, was passed by the Maryland Legislature and signed into law on Thursday by Republican Gov. Larry Hogan. […]

Academics

Army Secretary Visits VMI

Army Secretary Mike Esper was at Virginia Military Insitute Thursday. His visit to VMI is part of a tour of the nation’s six senior military colleges, and included a visit to Virginia Tech last week. He is also stopping by other colleges with ROTC program. Read More

Academics

Army Futures Command, Vanderbilt Ink Partnership to Encourage Innovation, Education For Both

Army Futures Command and Vanderbilt University signed an agreement April 9 that links creative, innovative soldiers with top-tier Vanderbilt University experts so that ideas quickly can become useful products. Leaders from the two groups say this five-year education partnership agreement is a potential model for military-academic collaboration across the nation, not only on research and […]

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