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CAREERS /
Officers

New USAFA superintendent to begin today

The Air Force Academy will get its first female superintendent when Maj. Gen. Michelle Johnson formally takes the academy's top job Monday.

Aug. 12, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

Top TA school under fire for its name

A leading Senate Democrat is taking aim at the nation's top military tuition assistance school, saying its name could be tricking service members.

Aug. 1, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

GAO: For-profit, public schools show similar success rates

Students attending the for-profit institutions that take in the most Post-9/11 GI Bill money don't appear substantially less likely, or more likely, to succeed academically that those attending similar public or nonprofit private schools, a recent governm

Jul. 31, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

Service academies score high on Forbes' best colleges list

The U.S. Military Academy ranked No. 7 — ahead of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell University — in Forbes magazine's 2013 rankings of the best colleges.

Jul. 26, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

SVA working to better track vets' success rates in school

A new effort to better track how student veterans fare in college — which holds the promise of identifying the practices and schools that best get vets to graduation day — is underway and should start producing information before 2014, the head of Student

Jul. 12, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

American Military University is top TA school in every branch of the military

In every branch of the military and across the Defense Department overall, American Public Education Inc.

Jul. 8, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

Professor to teach gender studies courses at USAFA

A professor of psychology at the University of Mary Washington is helping the military overcome what some have called an epidemic of sexual assaults.

Jun. 18, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

New complaint reporting system for schools on the way

The federal government is testing, and plans to soon implement, a broad new complaint reporting system designed to root out the 'bad apples' among education institutions that serve troops and veterans, a Defense Department official told Congress.

Jun. 14, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

Schools scramble to support vets — is it working?

Anthony Arnold left college his freshman year to enlist in the Navy. When he returned to finish his undergraduate degree five years later, he wasn't like everyone else. He was older. He was trained in military intelligence.

Jun. 14, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

Free media training program for vets starting in Connecticut

The Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network plans to launch a free digitial media training program for veterans at its Hartford headquarters in the fall, and officials hope that the effort serves as a model that can be expanded nationwide, officials said.

Jun. 14, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

Top community colleges honored

Walla Walla Community College in Washington state and Santa Barbara City College in California were awarded the prestigious Aspen Prize for 2013 for success in attracting, retaining and graduating students into jobs and four-year universities.

May. 20, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

Proposed compact could give online students more protections

A proposed compact among the states unveiled in April would create a kind of common market for online education and make it easier for institutions to enroll students anywhere in the country.

May. 20, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

What's a 'Purple heart university'?

Troy University announced last month that it was the country's first 'Purple Heart University.' If you're not entirely sure what that means, you're not alone.

May. 20, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

More online classes open up for aviation students

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.

Apr. 22, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

Free degrees — and they're legit

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.

Apr. 22, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

Trident reaffirms its accreditation

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.

Apr. 22, 2013

NEWS /

Tougher rules for tech school washouts

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.

Mar. 30, 2013

EDUCATION /

College Scorecard gathers data at single site

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.

Mar. 25, 2013

EDUCATION /

Save on college application fees

Application rates to U.S. colleges and universities are soaring. Part of the reason? Panic.

Mar. 25, 2013

EDUCATION /

Your 5-step application checklist

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.

Mar. 25, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

Take the anxiety out of applying to college

Navy veteran Tim Martin's decision to apply to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2007 filled him with apprehension. A previous college attempt years before had not gone well for the former aviation electrician's mate second class.

Jan. 25, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

Get an edge in interviews at selective schools

The good news: The Post-9/11 GI Bill has put many selective schools within financial reach for veterans. The bad news: Selective schools are flooded with applicants and acceptance rates are slipping downward.

Jan. 25, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

Beef up your education with language training

Maybe you've heard this one before: If someone who speaks three languages is called trilingual and someone who speaks two languages is called bilingual, what do you call someone who speaks one language? An American.

Jan. 25, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

6 new majors: Game design, motor sports & more

Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits about to be burning a hole in your pocket — but you can't decide where to go to school or even what you want to major in? Maybe news of these new degree programs will provide the right spark of inspiration.

Jan. 25, 2013

EDUCATION /
Schools & Colleges

Transfer smart

When former Navy Reserve Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Russo was ready to go for his bachelor's degree at American Military University after earning an associate degree at Ashworth College, the intelligence studies graduate worked hard to ensure his transfer to a new school was a seamless one.