Monday, November 12, 2012

The Educated Reporter: Veterans Day: Trading the Battlefield for the Classroom

The Educated Reporter: Veterans Day: Trading the Battlefield for the Classroom:


Veterans Day: Trading the Battlefield for the Classroom

With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan moving toward an end, tens of thousands of U.S. veterans will be making the transition back to civilian life. For many of them, that means taking advantage of government funding for higher education.

Writing for Inside Higher Ed, Wick Sloane released the results of his annual informal survey of elite colleges and universities to determine how many undergraduate veterans they have enrolled. Some schools didn't respond to his request or didn't know the answer, Sloane says. But based on those which did respond, the number of