{"id":4819,"date":"2016-11-11T11:31:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T15:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2016-11-11T11:31:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T15:31:26","slug":"ghc-named-top-military-friendly-college-fourth-time-last-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/2016\/11\/11\/ghc-named-top-military-friendly-college-fourth-time-last-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"GHC named a Top Military Friendly College for the fourth time in the last five years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Military\u00a0Advanced Education<\/em>\u00a0&\u00a0Transition<\/em>\u00a0(MAE&T<\/em>) has awarded Georgia Highlands College the designation of a Top School in its 2017\u00a0MAE&T\u00a0<\/em>Guide to Colleges & Universities, measuring best practices in\u00a0military\u00a0and veteran education. GHC was also recognized by MAE in the 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016 editions.<\/p>\n

The Guide will be released late December, and is available online at\u00a0www.mae-kmi.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Guide presents results of a questionnaire of the\u00a0military-supportive policies enacted at more than 600 institutions, including private, public, for-profit, not-for-profit, four-year, and two-year colleges. From community colleges to state universities, online universities and nationally known centers of higher learning,\u00a0MAE&T\u2019s<\/em>\u00a02016 Guide to Colleges & Universities arms students with information about institutions that go out of their way to give back to our men and women in uniform.<\/p>\n

Now in its tenth year of publishing the Guide,\u00a0MAE&T<\/em>\u00a0was the first publication to launch a reference tool of this type. This year, institutions were evaluated on their\u00a0military\u00a0culture, financial aid, flexibility, general support, on-campus support and online support services<\/strong>. Each school\u2019s performance rating by category is represented by an easy-to-recognize dashboard. This enables prospective students to quickly target schools that follow best practices in\u00a0military\u00a0education, and then put these in context with other academic or career considerations.<\/p>\n

With input from an advisory board of educational and government experts, and criteria based on recommendations from the VA and\u00a0military\u00a0services,\u00a0MAE&T\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Guide to Colleges and Universities provides the foundational information a prospective student would use in framing his or her educational needs.<\/p>\n

Not only is the 2017 Guide printed in the December issue of\u00a0Military\u00a0Advanced Education &Transition<\/em>, but also published in a searchable database online. Students will have access to all the survey questions and answers provided by the schools, as well as explanations about critical issues like activation and deployment policies, withdrawal policies, scholarship and financial aid information and important support information.<\/p>\n

Visit\u00a0www.mae-kmi.com<\/a>\u00a0for online access to\u00a0MAE&T<\/em>\u2019s 2017 Guide to Colleges and Universities, or pick up a copy of the December issue of\u00a0Military\u00a0Advanced Education & Transition<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For more information about Georgia Highlands College Veterans Affairs, please contact Veterans Affairs Coordinator Amy Wise at acasey@highlands.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Military\u00a0Advanced Education\u00a0&\u00a0Transition\u00a0(MAE&T) has awarded Georgia Highlands College the designation of a Top School in its 2017\u00a0MAE&T\u00a0Guide to Colleges & Universities, measuring best practices in\u00a0military\u00a0and veteran education. GHC was also recognized by MAE in the 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016 editions. The Guide will be released late December, and is available online at\u00a0www.mae-kmi.com. The Guide presents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4821,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions\/4821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}