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Navy Lt. Thomas Saenz, who graduated Friday from the University of Southern California with a master's degree, joins a growing number of service members earning college degrees while deployed in a war zone.
A push to prevent public colleges and universities from charging student veterans out-of-state tuition took a leap forward Tuesday when Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee leaders joined the cause.
Student veterans who were overpaid on their GI Bill benefits would get more time to repay the money under a bill introduced Monday by Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo.
After months or years of taking orders from guys with more stripes on their uniforms, how would you like to be your own boss on the civilian side?
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.
Tips to maximize your tuition assistanceThe tuition assistance roller coaster appears to have come to a stop.
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.
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 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.
Tuition aid safe for now, but may not stay freeIn the battle over tuition assistance benefits, the Navy was the lone service to keep it intact despite incoming budget cuts.
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.
The Coast Guard is reinstating tuition assistance for the fiscal year, the service announced Friday.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The chief of naval personnel says the Navy wants to keep the service’s tuition assistance program funded through the remainder of this fiscal year.
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.
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.
Navy revamps plan for sailors leaving serviceWith veterans still facing economic headwinds upon leaving the service, the Navy is rolling out an overhauled and longer transition course this year that offers sailors help to reach their personal post-Navy goals.
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