Taking Tuition Assistance from U.S. Service Members

Abstract

This paper discusses why tuition assistance program should not be taken away, as tuition assistance program is a financial assistance program that assists hundreds of thousands of service members. This helps students in gaining their high school, college or master's degree. Military Tuition assistance (TA) program has been an advantage accessible to the service members since 1940's. It was first planned for the enrolled faculty, but the Congress broadened scope to the officer corps in the 1950's. The services at first gave shifting and sporadic levels of scope until it got a financed thing in the National Defense Authorization Act of 1972. Under the project, the Army paid hundred percent of the educational expenses charged by a school in the form of fee, but unfortunately, The Army has announced that they are suspending the TA program for the soldiers newly enrolling in classes because of the sequestration as well as other issues of budgetary pressures. Surely, the suspension of this student's financial aid program will be a bigger challenge for the students, and their education.

Taking Tuition Assistance from U.S. service Members

Introduction

The Army announced that they are suspending its TA program for the soldiers newly enrolling in classes because of the sequestration as well as other issues of budgetary pressures. Even though, Tuition Assistance (TA) program seems to be suspended, troopers can proceed to gain entrance to their GI Bill benefits or use other financing sources, for example scholarships and grants or state educational cost aid for officers. Tuition Assistance (TA) furnishes financial help for voluntary on furlough education systems in backing of an officer's expert and particular self-infrastructure objectives (Erickson, 2013). The project is interested in practically all troopers (warrant officers, officers, enrolled) incorporating Army Reserve, and Army National Guard on engaged job. However, there are certain confinements to who might utilize Army Tuition Assistance and what courses it could be utilized for.

The program should not be taken away from the students as this project was accessible for troops to finish a secondary school certificate, certificate program or graduation or master's degree (Terkel, 2013). Under the project, the Army paid 100 percent of the educational cost and commissioned expenses charged by a school to built cutoff points of $250 for every semester hour or credit hour or up to $4,500 for every financial year.

Thesis Statement

Military Tuition Assistance program should not be taken away as this will have worst effects on the education of the students.

Discussion

By suspending this program of assistance the government is actually taking away funds that students are using not just to decrease the number of jobless veterans as they appear to the service. Education is a key to success but suspension of the military assistance program will have the worst effect on the student's education (Kidston, 2013). Military Tuition assistance (TA) program has been a profit accessible to the service members since the late 1940's. While at first planned for enrolled faculty, Congress broadened scope to the officer corps ...