Promoting the best: Tech sgts. may have to impress a board to advance1st female superintendent starts at Air Force Academy
The first woman to lead the Air Force Academy took over the job Monday, but Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson said she's not dwelling on the significance of the milestone.
- Aug. 12, 2013
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Save on college application fees
Application rates to U.S. colleges and universities are soaring. Part of the reason? Panic.
- Mar. 25, 2013
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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
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