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It may have taken Staff Sgt. Jason Ellis about nine years to receive his degree from the Community College of the Air Force, but he had good reason. Ten years ago, combat injuries severely wounded Ellis while he was on deployment in Iraq.
Student veterans applying to use GI Bill benefits would be better served by the Veterans Affairs Department if they were warned of how long it might take to receive those benefits, according to a new congressional report.
Airman: Save money by cutting in-residence PMEWhen Air Force leaders put out an all-call to airmen for ideas on how to save money, one senior master sergeant had an idea.
Everyone attending military transition assistance workshops would have to attend specific briefings about how to get the most out of Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits under a bill passed Thursday by a House panel.
More students than ever are flying through college on the Internet. For those seeking aviation degrees, though, the Federal Aviation Administration wants you to keep one foot on the ground — at least part of the time.
Some 60-plus colleges in six states are taking a little-used but seemingly obvious step to boost graduation rates: scouring school databases to track down former students who unknowingly qualify for degrees.
Trident University International, a major tuition assistance school that had run into trouble with its accrediting agency, is back in good standing with the Western Association of Schools & Colleges.
Tuition assistance is back, but the Air Force’s top enlisted airman said the estimated $90 million needed to provide the benefit could have been used to keep grounded planes flying.
Spouses and children of service members made up almost one-fourth of Post-9/11 GI Bill users last year, and their numbers appear to be growing, according to data provided by the Veterans Affairs Department.
Veteran service organizations and some lawmakers expressed support for a bill to push public colleges and universities to offer in-state tuition rates to all veterans, but university advocacy groups, as well as the Veterans Affairs Department, are not on board.
The Air Force has restarted tuition assistance one month after shutting it down because of sequestration’s across-the-board budget cuts.
PME continues for now; cuts could still comeProfessional military education courses have not ground to a halt as predicted before massive defense spending cuts took effect last month, but Air Force officials say suspending PME is “still on the table.”
The two senators who led the charge to save tuition assistance from budget cuts want to know what’s taking the Defense Department so long to restart the benefits pipeline.
Defense officials have reduced the number of required furlough days for civilian employees, but military school officials are now faced with the possibility of having to squeeze the furloughs into an even shorter time frame.
New guidelines on technical school are giving little leeway for new recruits who fail in their initial skills training classes. Officials have also reduced the number of jobs airmen can reclassify into if they washout of technical school and put a time limit on getting reclassified.
The Air Force plans to reinstate its tuition assistance program toward mid-April, said Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force James Cody.
Tuition assistance is back, with some changesCongress has rescued tuition assistance after thousands of troops complained when most of the services suspended the popular education benefit as a cost-cutting move.
GI Bill in uniform: Use it and lose itTuition assistance may have been revived — at least for this fiscal year — but if the program comes into the budget-cutting crosshairs again, you may want to think twice before using your GI Bill benefits as a replacement, at least while you’re still on active duty.
Families hunting for colleges now can find such financial information as cost, average student debt and loan default rates of individual institutions at a single federal website.
Officer Candidate School will turn you into leadership material, but you’ll have to work for it.
Colleges have done a lot to simplify the application process thanks to the Internet. In some cases, one application works for a number of schools. But you still should approach the applications carefully to be sure you’ve done everything a school has asked.
Application rates to U.S. colleges and universities are soaring. Part of the reason? Panic.
Editorial: Stretch TA fundingCongress acted quickly last week to restore tuition assistance funding after the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force abruptly suspended the program.
One student was a homeless man with welding experience who slept in a tent throughout training. Two were brothers from Indiana who drove to Pennsylvania and stayed in a motel room for four weeks. Another was a veteran just home from being stationed in Korea.
When the services suddenly announced they were pulling way back on tuition assistance for all troops, tens of thousands were left wondering how they would fulfill their educational ambitions — or even whether they could complete the current semester.
Adjusted TA may return in fallThe abrupt suspension of the service’s tuition assistance program could end as early as August, Air Force officials said amid an onslaught of complaints and attempts by lawmakers and petitioners to the White House to reverse the decision.
Tips for troops on TAThe news that the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are shutting down their tuition assistance programs rocked the military and education communities, leaving even experts in the field stunned and wondering what to do next.
The White House will have to consider reinstating tuition assistance for troops after a petition on its official website garnered more than 100,000 signatures.
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