We advocate for military-connected students before the Education Department
Disabled veterans’ right to student loan forgiveness
We had a major win in forcing the US Education Department to honor disabled veterans’ legal right to student loan forgiveness. Still more to do!
Loan Relief for Students Defrauded by a School
We fight for defrauded veterans to get their student loans forgiven by the Education Department, and their Pell Grants restored.
Integrity and Quality Standards by Colleges
We advocate for rules requiring colleges to abide by basic integrity rules and meet minimum quality standards.
Accreditation and Accreditors
We push for high quality standards by accreditors and we expose lax accreditors.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT DATA
U.S. Education Department Integrated Post-Secondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
OUR LETTERS TO THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Our Testimony to the Education Dept. NACIQI Hearing on Accreditors
Testimony of Walter Ochinko Research Director, Veterans Education Success U.S. Department of Education National Advisory Council on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) Review of the Higher Learning Commission July 29, 2020 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Education Department’s surprising conclusion that the Higher Learning Commission failed [...]
Our Comment on the Department of Education’s Interim Final Rule regarding the Emergency Grant Program in the CARES Act
July 14, 2020 Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education 400 Maryland Ave., SW Washington, DC 20202 Via electronic submission Re: Interim Final Rule on CARES Act Eligibility for Emergency Grants, Docket ID ED-2020-OPE-0078 Dear Sir/Madam: Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the interim final rule [...]
Letter from Student Veterans of America and Veterans Education Success to Secretary DeVos on CARES Act Guidance
May 19, 2020 The Honorable Betsy DeVos Secretary of Education Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue SW Washington, DC 20202 Re: CARES Act Guidance and Military-Connected Students Dear Secretary DeVos: On behalf of veterans, service members, their families, and survivors represented by our organizations, we ask for clarification on guidance [...]
Comment from 50 Groups on Proposed Distance Education and Innovation Regulations
May 4, 2020 Mr. Gregory Martin U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Ave. SW, Mail Stop 294-42 Washington, DC 20202. Re: Distance Education and Innovation, Docket ID number ED-2018-OPE-0076-0845 Submitted electronically via: http://regulations.gov Dear Mr. Martin: The 50 undersigned organizations representing and advocating for students, families, taxpayers, veterans and service [...]
Our Comment on the Department of Education’s Proposed Distance Education and Innovation Regulations
May 4, 2020 Gregory Martin U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue SW Mail Stop 294-42 Washington, DC 20202 Submitted via online portal Re: Distance Education and Innovation, Docket ID: ED-2018-OPE-0076-0845 Dear Mr. Martin: Thank you for the opportunity to comment on proposed regulatory changes related to distance education and [...]
Letter to the Education Department Urging it Revoke Recognition of ACICS as an Accreditor
March 24, 2020 Herman Bounds Director, Accreditation Group U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Ave., S.W. Washington, D.C. 20002 Dear Mr. Bounds: On February 27, 2018, twenty-nine Veterans and Military Service Organizations wrote to ask you to deny the application by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) [...]
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT REPORTS
Federal Student Aid Annual Report FY 2019
U.S. Department of Education, Federal Student Aid FY 2019 report detailing the organization’s fiscal year financial and program performance.
U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences: Military Service and Educational Attainment of High School Sophomores After 9/11: Experiences of 2002 High School Sophomores as of 2012
This Statistics in Brief examines 2002 high school sophomores’ entrance into military service through 2012, up to 8 years after most graduated from high school in 2004. The report provides estimates regarding the timing of military service; the demographic and academic characteristics of those who served in the military; the [...]
U.S. Department of Education Office of Inspector General recommendations for HEA
U.S. Department of Education Office of Inspector General recommendations for HEA
MORE NEWS & INFO
Election 2020: Policy Memo for Candidates: Supporting Military-Connected Students in Higher Education
Election 2020: Policy Memo for Candidates: Supporting Military-Connected Students in Higher Education Read the report and visit our webpage here: https://vetsedsuccess.org/election-2020-policy-memo-for-candidates-supporting-military-connected-students-in-higher-education/
Are Student Veterans Going to be Denied Access to CARES Act Emergency Relief Funds?
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act authorized more than $6 billion in emergency cash grants “to students” enrolled in campus-based postsecondary education, to be distributed by their colleges. On April 9, 2020, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos wrote to college presidents that they had “significant discretion on [...]
Veterans’ Use of Private Student Loans: A Primer
Click here to download a PDF copy of the report. Highlights Based on our analysis of ED survey data from academic year 2007-08 to 2015-16: The proportion of undergraduate student veterans at for-profit schools taking out private student loans dropped by almost 95 percent (see fig. 1). Although the proportion [...]
Advocates and Veterans Groups Urge Financial Institutions to Follow Military Consumer Protection Law During Covid-19 Mobilizations
On Friday, May 1 the Student Borrower Protection Center, Student Veterans of America, Veterans Education Success, and over a dozen national military and veteran service organizations sent letters to the nation’s major financial institutions urging them to ensure that service members—including those called up to support COVID-19 emergency response efforts—are [...]
