Veteran Launches New Campaign
WASHINGTON -- With the passage of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, veterans became a prime target of for-profit colleges hoping to cash in on the new windfall o...
WASHINGTON -- With the passage of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, veterans became a prime target of for-profit colleges hoping to cash in on the new windfall o...
Adam Levin | Posted 05.18.2012
For the record, I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the Hitler Youth. I point this out because based on the comments to my last few column...
Jim Thomas | Posted 05.16.2012
Leaving your day-to-day work and normal surroundings can be eye opening. Vision, and leaders who live the vision, were my takeaways from the Colorado Experience 2012.
HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 04.26.2012
For more than a year, veterans groups and Senate Democrats have warned that for-profit colleges are aggressively recruiting current and former soldier...
AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 03.30.2012
In press releases and ads, colleges love boasting they're "military friendly" and "veterans friendly" – and that isn't just because veterans are...
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 05.28.2012
For over a decade, our vets have been leading the way overseas. It's about time we welcome them back with jobs so they can lead the way at home. Because really, if we can't support the folks we ask to fight and die for our country, then it's about time for a national gut-check.
Jon Soltz | Posted 04.03.2012
Mitt Romney just made it clear: While the president will begin to transition us out of Afghanistan, a President Mitt Romney would keep us there in an open-ended commitment.
HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 01.24.2012
Over the past two years, for-profit colleges have been aggressively recruiting returning veterans in an effort to tap into billions of dollars in fede...
Charlie Carillo | Posted 03.06.2012
We tease my father because he wears a Harvard University sweatshirt when he does yard work. My mother found it at a thrift shop. It's tattered at the cuffs and the lettering is faded.
Posted 12.21.2011
Though recent cuts to the GI Bill have limited their academic options, returning troops are finding ways to offset the exorbitant costs of an Ivy Leag...
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 01.14.2012
Realizing that they were many resources for men who had served -- but not for women -- StJohn had an epiphany. She asked herself, "Why aren't I doing this?" That was the beginning of F7 Group.
HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 11.22.2011
As veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan use billions of dollars in federal benefits to pay for higher education, for-profit colleges are captu...
AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 11.22.2011
The new Post 9/11 G.I. bill, which substantially boosted education benefits for veterans, has been a windfall for large chains of for-profit colleges,...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.11.2012
With a new class of students starting college this month -- replacing a class that just graduated into a historically bad job market -- there's no better time for another installment of our "Majoring in Debt" series, which examines the mountainous student debt college graduates are facing, how it will affect their futures, and what it will mean for the future of America. When I was 16 and living in Greece, I saw a magazine article about Cambridge and was overcome by a desire to study there. And I was lucky enough to get in. In the years after graduating, pretty much every break I got could be traced back to that experience. But, increasingly, graduating from college no longer means putting your education to work for you -- it now means being a virtual indentured servant to your education. Instead of propelling you into the future, more and more it means trapping you in the past.
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 09.25.2011
NEW YORK -- Earlier today, tens of thousands of student veterans attending private colleges on the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill cleared the final hurdle in an ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 08.29.2011
NEW YORK -- Thousands of student veterans attending private colleges on the Post-9/11 GI Bill cleared the latest hurdle in an ongoing battle to secure...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 08.28.2011
NEW YORK -- Earlier this year, we introduced you to Cameron Baker, a 27-year-old veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He's currently attending Columbia Univ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 08.24.2011
MADISON, Wis. -- Nearly two years ago, Stephen Lee uprooted his wife and two children from their home in Clarksville, Tenn., to study political scienc...
Posted 08.05.2011
Leave No Veteran Behind (LNVB) takes the military creed of never leaving a comrade behind to heart, and not just on the battlefield. They offer retroa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 06.19.2011
NEW YORK -- Cameron Baker, a 27-year-old Air Force veteran, knew it was finally time to make his exit from military life. After two deployments to Ira...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.28.2011
WASHINGTON -- Dustin White was ready to serve his country overseas. After signing up for the New Jersey National Guard at the age of 17 and going thro...
Laura J. Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011
We need to seriously reconsider whether for-profit colleges give us the greatest return on our investment in the 21st Century GI Bill. There are plenty of reasons to doubt that they provide the quality education our veterans deserve.
nytimes.com | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- When Congress moved in 2008 to sweeten tuition payments for veterans, it was celebrated as a way to ensure that military personnel retur...
Charles Kolb | Posted 05.25.2011
When it comes to the quality of our K-12 education system, the results are risible. We have now had nearly 30 years of rhetoric, much of it aspirational -- but with few solid results.
stanfordreview.org | Posted 05.25.2011
Due to the new Post 9/11 G.I. Bill, universities across the country are seeing an increase in veterans on their campuses. These campuses are consequen...
HuffingtonPost.com | Max J. Rosenthal | Posted 05.23.2012