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Military Groups, Vets Urge Government to Keep Pressure on Fraud

Twenty-eight veterans groups and military service organizations have called on the Trump administration to scrap deregulation proposals that they said would limit oversight of “bad actor” schools preying on veterans using the GI Bill. In a letter last month to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the organizations urged her “to strengthen, not discard, common-sense protections against […]

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The Fourth Way

Over the course of the summer of 2018, War on the Rocks published five articles on professional military education that each described a distinct vision of what American schools for field grade officers ought to be. One of these, by David Morgan-Owen, argued for a larger role for civilian academics one that, among other things, gave them greater freedom […]

Military School Dean Fired Over Medical Use of Cannabis

A Vietnam veteran and career educator at an elite military training school now finds himself resorting to a Reagan-era executive order in hopes of clearing his name. Henry Cobbs’ crime? Vaping a non-psychoactive form of cannabis to treat his prostate cancer. Cobbs, 77, was forced out of his job last month as dean of academics […]

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Warrior Transition Unit Rebuilds Lives

When a soldier is wounded, ill or injured — whether at home or overseas — Fort Hood’s Warrior Transition Unit is there to ensure the soldier receives the appropriate medical care and administrative processing needed to return to duty or to transition into the civilian world. And when a soldier is identified as one who […]

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Woz U Learning Platform Under Fire

Woz U, the online learning platform endorsed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, is again under fire. In a new CBS report, one former employee (an “enrollment counselor” charged with signing people up for the program) says the program’s management has been pushing sales above all. In retrospect, he likens signing up for Woz U to […]

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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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DeVos Critics Say Sale of DeVry Raises Red Flags

WASHINGTON — A little-known venture capitalist is on the verge of acquiring one of the biggest for-profit colleges in the country, a transaction that would put him in control of a troubled national chain that’s more than 60 times the size of the tiny California school he owns. The business-friendly Trump administration has given a […]

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House Panel Probes Problems with GI Bill Claims

POST-9/11 GI BILL PROCESSING PROBLEMS MOUNT: House Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) says he’s hearing reports that some Post-9/11 GI Bill recipients’ monthly housing payments are being lost or delayed because of an IT-related processing issue. Read more

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Playing Catch Up

The last time the Higher Education Act was rewritten, the iPhone was just a year old. Apple’s app store had just launched. The nation was entering the Great Recession. In the decade since, few places changed more substantially than our nation’s colleges and universities. College tuition grew at four times the rate of inflation over […]

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Virginia Secretary Visits University Student Veterans

The Virginia Secretary of Education Atif Qarni spoke to a group of VCU military veterans at Cabell Library Sept. 21. The event — organized by Military Student Services Director Stephen Ross — focused on what veterans go through when transitioning from their time in the armed forces back to civilian life. “This was a really […]

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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Transition Officer Selected for DOD Leadership Program

Miliani Jiménez, Ph.D., Research Psychologist, Transition to Veterans Program Office (TVPO), has been selected as a participant for the class of 2019 Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP). ELDP supports the Department of Defense (DoD) civilian leader development continuum at the “lead people” level, and is designed to equip participants with the warfighter perspective. Jiménez designs, […]

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