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...month, two weeks a year. Since Sept. 11, nearly 425,000 National Guard and reserve troops have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Like temp workers with no benefits, however, these citizen-soldiers find that when they leave the reserve forces, they are not entitled to the same tuition assistance as regular Army veterans...
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CONTEXT Colleges justify the fees, sometimes as high as $500 a semester, by citing the high salaries commanded by professors in certain fields and the difficulties of getting general tuition increases past state legislatures...
About 200 students are enrolled this semester, and they pay IUON's hefty price tag: $8,800 a semester, about four times the in-state tuition for an associate degree at a U.S. community college. "It's a scary obstacle," says fourth-semester student Kristal Nicks. But the 25-year-old Florida native says the loans she took out will be worth it. "I was sick of waiting to become a nurse," she says...
...closely," she says. "Can students come back and sit successfully for the licensing exam?" To improve their odds, IUON nursing students attend classes in St. Kitts for three semesters but finish their clinical studies at one of six partner schools in the U.S. Ross pays these cash-strapped schools tuition plus an undisclosed fee. Dr. James Utterback, president of Oklahoma's Seminole State College, was one of Ross's first partners. "We benefit from the extra funds and added diversity on our campus," Utterback says. Seminole doesn't have enough teachers to enroll IUON'S students fully...