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  For-profit school officials strike back at critical report

  As the negative press surrounding for-profit universities and underserved student veterans mounts, officials from those schools are pushing back to defend their business model as a valuable and unfairly maligned option for nontraditional students.

  19:34 July 31, 2012
• GIBill.com shut down in settlement over defrauding veterans
• Presidential order to protect veterans from colleges' shady practices
• Student Veterans of America revokes charters from 26 for-profit schools
• Recruitment ads by for-profit colleges targeted
• DOD extends deadline for colleges to sign new tuition aid pact
• Officials admit error that inflated GI Bill money to for-profit schools
• In about-face, Marines restore tuition aid levels
• Tuition assistance slashed by 80 percent for Marines
• Veterans taking online courses to get GI Bill housing stipend
• Senators blast rise in GI Bill funds going to for-profit colleges
• Congress passes GI Bill fixes to protect vets' tuition payments
• Stars and Stripes coverage of the GI Bill

• Fort Bliss in line for community college campus

  El Paso Community College plans to build a campus at Fort Bliss, and officials hope to open it by 2016. The college is reviewing the first draft of a lease with U.S. Department of the Army for 70 acres near Loop 375 and Spur 601, next to the new Beaumont Army Medical Center that is already under construction.

  11:15 August 12, 2012
• Florida program readies students for college success
• Service academies regarded as 'national award,' invitation to lead
• Western Kentucky's Student Veterans Alliance looks to expand
• West Virginia has spent millions on Guard education
• Consolidated university in Georgia plans to make veteran outreach a priority
• Heartland, Illinois State help veterans adjust to student life
• Univ. of Wisconsin offers online courses for active-duty soldiers
• In Oklahoma, military experience will convert into academic credits
• As veterans return home, Oklahoma colleges and universities seek to handle their needs

College profiles

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  San Antonio College

  At San Antonio College, basic training is accepted toward two Physical Education credits

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  The Catholic University of America

  All active military and veterans receive a special tuition rate at CUA. The university also has a designated person to process all military benefits.

  09:43 December 19, 2011
• California Coast Unviersity
• Bryant & Stratton College Online
• Waldorf College
• Columbia Southern University
• Cleveland State University
• The George Washington University
• University of Utah
• Jacksonville State University
• University of Oregon
• Chaminade University
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Cameron University
• Baker College
• Liberty University
• University of South Carolina-Columbia
• University of New Hampshire Manchester
• Washington State University