Posted on Nov 23, 2013
How would cost-sharing Tuition Assistance impact your civilian education?
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The Coast Guard just instituted cost-sharing tuition assistance, covering only 75% of TA for their service members, requiring the service member to cover 25% of the cost. How will this impact the rest of the military services with regards to tuition assistance and pursuit of civilian education for our service members at a time where the military is right-sizing?
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This would just bring us back to the pre-9/11 rates...it's all cyclical.
Bringing back the 75% TA will actually benefit the military AND its service members. How? If someone really wants a degree, they'll go for it and won't waste credit hours just taking classes here and there.
Bringing back the 75% TA will actually benefit the military AND its service members. How? If someone really wants a degree, they'll go for it and won't waste credit hours just taking classes here and there.
Spending ones own money (or topping up with GI Bill) will help focus on achievable educational goals.
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SSG Stephanie Mitchell
I agree, If you really want to obtain an education you are willing to find a way to support it. FAFSA, Grants and other military Scholarships are available. Most universities and colleges are very Military friendly and have various programs designed to help military offset the cost of tuition, books or both.
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Current TA rules make you build an in depth class by class degree plan prior to signing up for any class. The classes all must be required for said degree. There is also a career limit to the number of times we can change degree plans as well. I think it was once per level, associates, bachelors, so on. Also there was a cap placed on how many credit hours are we can take per year. The goarmyed website covers all the recent changes. DoD is already putting a stop to wasted opportunities on crap classes. If anyone used credit for MOS training that should take care of all to most of the electives a student will need. Except for those silly schools that have "required electives." Doesn't that just make it a degree requirement?
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I think it is great. I think it will motivate Soldiers to work harder and it will make the money go farther. That is how it was when I used it.
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LTC Gross, is dead on.
Form an economic stand point you have to ration something for it to be valuable to the members of a group. In other worlds you have to have skin in the game. I think this is good resource management on the part of the Army.
Form an economic stand point you have to ration something for it to be valuable to the members of a group. In other worlds you have to have skin in the game. I think this is good resource management on the part of the Army.
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