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I have not had an awful lot of pushback from my VA staff on hours. I can't imagine there would be difficulty, especially if there is a certificate involved. I'll probably have this problem, as I have 2+ months left with 2 credits over two semesters. I would like to fully exhaust my GI Bill hours. This thread has suggested in the past that if you have an hour left on your benefits, it will pay for an entire full-time semester. I have also not seen this exactly codified anywhere.
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Yeah, I know the month of remaining benefit-hours will pay the tuition up front (but not the living stipend for class time after exhaustion of benefits), no problem there. My question is whether the classes would be eligible, given that they are community college classes, so presumably 1000- or 2000-level and I have already finished my bachelor's. My guess was that you could only use the benefits for progressively higher levels of education, i.e. it won't pay for more undergrad, but I could use it towards graduate studies. I have no idea if that's correct, though.
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Also I want to burn that last month so I can have my $1200 back
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I have no idea how much or if I have any left and if I could use GI Bill benefits for CCENT or something that'd be awesome. How do I check what's left?
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I think you can use them for whatever degree you want, you don't have to go for ascending levels of accreditation. I don't have anything to cite for this but I do recall having a conversation with a VA educational rep when I was considering getting my Thomas Edison Nuclear Engineering Technology Degree that it wouldn't effect my eligibility for a real degree.
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bird food bathtub posted:I have no idea how much or if I have any left and if I could use GI Bill benefits for CCENT or something that'd be awesome. How do I check what's left? Your CoE you can download from the VA site should tell you how much time you have left. You can use it for certs.
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Well all of my face-to-face classes just got suspended til March 30th at the earliest. Everything is supposed to transition to online to continue the semester, so I'm going to be taking part of my spring break to head back to move my poo poo out since there's no reason for me to be on campus, and hopefully they'll let me break the lease early. I guess they're gearing up for some pretty spicy 'roni.
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Ruh roh.quote:The Department of Veterans Affairs is suspending educational benefits for new students enrolling in programs at five universities, citing “erroneous, deceptive, or misleading” enrollment practices, Military Times has learned. From https://www.militarytimes.com/2020/03/09/va-suspends-certifications-for-five-universities-over-deceptive-enrollment-practices/. I'm still fuzzy from being pre-coffee, but that's probably going to apply to any service related education benefit in short order. Suntan Boy fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Mar 10, 2020 |
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I'm surprised DeVos still lets anyone use their GI Bill at a legit college. Of course I'm surprised she's made it this far without calling someone a "loving serf" right to their face.
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Not letting University of Phoenix swindle troops out of their GI Bill sounds cool to me
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US Berder Patrol posted:Not letting University of Phoenix swindle troops out of their GI Bill sounds cool to me 
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US Berder Patrol posted:Not letting University of Phoenix swindle troops out of their GI Bill sounds cool to me
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US Berder Patrol posted:Not letting University of Phoenix swindle troops out of their GI Bill sounds cool to me Yeah gently caress that place. The degree is worthless to almost any employer anyway.
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Buried lede-Temple is a real school and it’s lumped in with those jamokes
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hey do military pharmacies carry plan b?
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GD_American posted:Buried lede-Temple is a real school and it’s lumped in with those jamokes Yeah. I'd expect to see Southern New Hampshire before I'd see Temple. Hell, I don't think I've seen a Temple ad, and I live 90 minutes from campus. Pretty sure they have a Harrisburg campus too.
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I looked closer and apparently their business school lied on quant data they sent to US News & World Report about their online MBA. Imagine hiring someone with an online MBA
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GD_American posted:
What’s wrong with an online MBA again? UC Berkeley sends me fliers about their Online Masters in Computer Science.
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I view online degrees from any school, no matter the prestige of the name, as equivalent to a U of Phoenix degree. Maybe public perception has shifted, I don’t know. Just my opinion.
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Some online schools that are connected to real universities are starting to give people degrees with the name of the real school on them.
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GD_American posted:I view online degrees from any school, no matter the prestige of the name, as equivalent to a U of Phoenix degree. Maybe public perception has shifted, I don’t know. Just my opinion. I spent a lot of time and effort working towards a degree through UMUC (or University of Maryland Global Campus now). Some of it was in person and some of it was online. As an actual adult with a family and a job, there was zero chance of me just saying, “whelp some guy on the internet doesn’t think this format is prestigious enough so I am going to retire and then spend four years at a regular school as a student in my forties”.
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It depends wildly on the field, the school, and the candidate's base experience. Almost to the point where it's silly to try and pick it apart. There's some online schools which will accomplish the mission of getting you a degree, a real degree. That's what a place like UMUC is. But it's *just* a degree, it's not going to open any networking opportunities like a magic spell. If that's what you need, and what you know you need, it does that job nicely.
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My school announced all classes will be remote as of Monday so countdown to the VA cutting my benefits for being enrolled in distance learning
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https://twitter.com/nathanwpyle/status/1237865978832113665?s=19 Mood from undergrad; now it is just papers
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Hekk posted:I spent a lot of time and effort working towards a degree through UMUC (or University of Maryland Global Campus now). Some of it was in person and some of it was online. As an actual adult with a family and a job, there was zero chance of me just saying, “whelp some guy on the internet doesn’t think this format is prestigious enough so I am going to retire and then spend four years at a regular school as a student in my forties”. Then it wasn't an online degree.
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Penn State about 4 hours ago said that classes are remote until 4/6. All campuses. It was very strongly worded that people should not return to campus unless necessary (unless faculty, working on dissertation, or on assistantship).
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FAU doing the online thing until further notice I guess formula sae gonna be off this year
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I'm in the Virtual Academic Center (online) for my MSW through USC and my professor today made the joke that we were ahead of the curve compares to his on ground students. They now have to learn how to not be self conscious being able to see yourself in a zoom meeting. Now just hoping no one gets sick at my internship since we help individuals living with HIV
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Private university near me just announced all classes were to be online after spring break, and was kicking everyone out of the dorms.
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GD_American posted:I view online degrees from any school, no matter the prestige of the name, as equivalent to a U of Phoenix degree. Maybe public perception has shifted, I don’t know. Just my opinion. The degree I'm getting at the end of this term still has the main university's name on it. It was not economical for me to leave the job market to pursue education which would keep me from becoming irrelevant. Call it a U of Phx degree if you want, my industry sees it as legit and I did legit work for it.
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Internet Wizard posted:My school announced all classes will be remote as of Monday so countdown to the VA cutting my benefits for being enrolled in distance learning https://www.militarytimes.com/education-transition/2020/03/11/lawmakers-move-to-protect-gi-bill-payouts-amid-college-coronavirus-closings/
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Good thing I graduated in December. Not doing chem labs would be detrimental.
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GD_American posted:I view online degrees from any school, no matter the prestige of the name, as equivalent to a U of Phoenix degree. Maybe public perception has shifted, I don’t know. Just my opinion. Hey, you are entitled to your opinion. Just please, I implore you: do some research the next time the issue comes up professionally for you before firing both barrels with your current thinking. The world, industries and schools have changed since UoP was the only real player. I hope your future employment see’s you in management or with hiring authority- and with that hope I also hope you will revisit the issue and not just go with your gut on this.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Hey, you are entitled to your opinion. Yeah I’m aware my opinion will one day be outdated and already comes with asterisks. Think of the general view on online dating in 1994 versus now. I took a few online classes to get my bachelor’s; I thought they were a gigantic waste of time and learned much less than classroom, but I had to do it to graduate on schedule. That and the couple of online-only degree folks I work with, who are pretty much the bottom of the roster, plus the SNCOs with Homeland Security degrees I had to deal with. Believe me, I’m not being elitist about my own Ed. I have a bachelors in business from South Alabama, pretty much the “well, it’s technically a degree” of education. I’ll just always believe traditional classroom instruction is inherently better.
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not caring here posted:FAU doing the online thing until further notice UCONN as well Online judging 
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All MBAs are worthless, in person or online
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M_Gargantua posted:All MBAs are worthless, in person or online 
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MBAs are very useful for quickly identifying useless people.
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Today I got offered a paid postgraduate position for a PhD in EE. If I was 22 I'd probably take that offer since $24k is something, especially given the recession that's about to hit. But I think I would be miserable doing it so I'm going to take my chances that the big government contractors are still gonna need new engineering hires even with a big market downturn.
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GD_American posted:Yeah I’m aware my opinion will one day be outdated and already comes with asterisks. Think of the general view on online dating in 1994 versus now. Online has moved into the mainstream in the last 5-10 years and a lot of T1 universities offer degrees that are in-person equivalents and there is no way to differentiate. One of the big draws, especially for grad programs, is that people cant afford to take a year or two off and move across country to attend school. Half of my learning in grad school was done by youtube anyways.
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