by Kirk R GrayInMilitaryEducation.com Contributor
Today in my Google Alerts, I got an interesting alert. It’s for a report published by the Gov’t Accounting Office (GAO) and their findings of the VA’s administration of Education Benefits. Veteran education benefits came to the forefront of the media in the past couple of months, so the GAO publishing this report is very timely indeed.
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by Col. Phil McNair
Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, American Public University System
If you are in the military and interested in earning a college degree, chances are good that you are short on two things that might be holding you back: cash and time. Let’s talk about the time issue.
Few active duty folks are fortunate enough to be sent to school full time on Uncle Sam’s dime. Realistically, your military duty obligations or job requirements, coupled in many cases with family responsibilities, may leave you little free time for college. And no matter how you look at it, earning a degree is going to be time-consuming
By Daniel Hahn Faculty Member, Emergency and Disaster Management at American Military University The interesting thing about being an…
If you are a habitual procrastinator like me, sometimes you need a little nudge to get moving, even when you know doing so is in your best interests. The current issues surrounding the suspension of the military’s tuition assistance program should be the impetus for military students to avoid procrastinating about getting a college education.
With the exception of the Navy, the popular Military Tuition Assistance program came to a screeching halt recently due to the Federal Sequestration. After a congressional mandate and the backing of the President, the Army and Air Force reopened the tuition assistance program, and recently the Marine Corps and the Coast Guard restored tuition assistance to pre-sequestration numbers for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2013.
By Michael Sale, American Military University I was a nineteen-year-old cadet with the Metropolitan Toronto Police when I was…