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  1. Bill proposes options to repay GI Bill overpayments

    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.

  2. Best for Vets: Franchises 2013

    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?

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    More troops and families using Post-9/11 GI Bill

    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.

    • Apr. 15, 2013
  2. In-state tuition for GI Bill sparks debate

    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.

    • Apr. 11, 2013
  3. The Army reinstated the Tuition Assistance Program through fiscal 2013. The program was suspended March 8. Sgt. Sarah E. Enos / Army

    Army restores tuition assistance

    The Army Tuition Assistance Program has been reinstated, and will remain available to qualified soldiers at least through fiscal 2013, which ends Sept. 30.

    • Apr. 10, 2013
  4. U.S. Military Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. David Huntoon arrives for a graduation and commissioning ceremony in West Point, N.Y. on May 26, 2012. The Army says the Pentagon's inspector general looked into an allegation of an improper relationship by Huntoon, but the claim was never substantiated. Mike Groll / AP file

    Army: No improper relationship for West Point head

    WEST POINT, N.Y. — The Pentagon’s inspector general said Monday an investigation found the U.S. Military Academy’s superintendent engaged in unspecified misconduct, while the Army said the probe cleared him of having an improper relationship.

    • Apr. 8, 2013
  5. Senators to DoD: Where’s the tuition assistance?

    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.

    • Apr. 4, 2013
  6. DoDEA may have to fit furloughs into just 2 months

    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.

    • Apr. 4, 2013
  7. Tuition assistance is back, with some changes

    Tuition assistance has been rescued by Congress after thousands of troops complained when most of the services suspended the popular education benefit as a cost-cutting move.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
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    GI Bill in uniform: Use it and lose it

    Tuition 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.

    • Mar. 25, 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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    OCS will test your mettle like never before

    Officer Candidate School will turn you into leadership material, but you’ll have to work for it.

    • 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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    Save on college application fees

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

    • Mar. 25, 2013
  9. Editorial: Stretch TA funding

    Congress acted quickly last week to restore tuition assistance funding after the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force abruptly suspended the program.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
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    Colleges team up for quick training in shale

    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.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
  10. Editorial: Mending tuition assistance

    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.

    • Mar. 18, 2013
  11. White House forced to consider reinstating TA

    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.

    • Mar. 18, 2013
  12. 9 tips for troops on tuition assistance

    The news that the Army and Marine Corps are shutting down their tuition assistance programs rocked the military and education communities March 8, leaving even experts in the field stunned and wondering what to do next.

    • Mar. 12, 2013
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    Best for Vets: Business Schools 2013 methodology

    Some 100 colleges and universities responded to our first-ever survey of business schools. Only institutions that said they offer graduate-level business degrees, and that participated in our rigorous Best for Vets: Colleges survey, the results of which published in November, were considered in this review.

    • Mar. 11, 2013
  13. Best for Vets: Business Schools 2013

    If you can lead troops into battle, can you also lead a Fortune 500 company to a better third-quarter earnings report?

    • Mar. 11, 2013
  14. Proposal would give in-state tuition to GI Bill vets

    A powerful lawmaker could ease the way for student veterans using the Post-9/11 GI Bill to avoid paying out-of-state tuition at public schools.

    • Jan. 25, 2013
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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.

    • Jan. 25, 2013

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Colleges

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