Scholarship Programs

Military Family Scholarship Program

The Military Family Scholarship program  is available to dependents and spouses of active duty, guard, reserve personnel and veterans (honorably or medically discharged). The scholarship offers qualified students a tuition rate of $250.00 per credit hour and a Textbook and Software Grant that covers the cost of required textbooks and software. The Military Family Scholarship program is an expansion of the Military Scholarship program initiated in September 2001. The purpose of these scholarships is to help military families surmount barriers to higher education and to express our gratitude to those who serve our country. Applicants must provide proof of dependent status. If you have additional questions, call 1-888-947-2684 or e-mail us.

Military Spouse Financial Assistance Program – MyCAA

Grantham University has partnered with the Department of Defense to offer military spouses up to $4,000 in financial assistance through the new Career Advancement Account (MyCAA).  This program was established to support military spouses in pursuit of education, training, licensing, credentialing, and employment in high growth, high demand portable careers.

Effects of the Post 9-11 GI Bill

Monthly living stipends will soon be dropping a bit for those veterans who are using the post September Eleventh GI Bill to support their educational expenses. The reduction comes between the fal and winter semesters, so it will likely strike a large portion of veterans who will be returning to school in the spring of 2011. Full time students will continue to draw the full amount, but a good portion of military students can only attend school on a part time basis.

The Post September Eleventh Veterans Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 2010 was passed by congress just before Christmas of 2010 and is scheduled to be signed in January of 2011 by President Obama. Not a great Christmas gift for some veterans, unfortunately.
The purported benefits of the bill include expanded GI coverage. Benefits will not be limited any longer to veterans who are pursuing a college degree. They will be able to apply their Post September Eleventh GI benefits in order to gain skills through on-the-job training, vocational schools, technical schools, and other degree granting institutions which don’t necessarily focus on college degree plans.

One definite benefit is that more Guard members will truly be eligible due to a correction of an oversight in the 2008 bill which limited them. National Guard members will be eligible for the new bill if they have been activated for an emergency or homeland security mission for an appropriate length of time. Full time service under the Active Guard Reserce Program, or AGR, will also qualify Guard members for the benefit.
Another benefit is the relative simplicity of the new bill. Public colleges and universities that accept the GI benefits under the new bill will continue to cover tuition and fees in full; however, private colleges will have a benefit cap of $17,500 which will be adjusted annually to agree with rise in national education costs. Active duty members and their spouses will be eligible for up to $1,000 per year in book stipends to cover the cost of textbooks required for their education. Overall, the new bill does show improvements over the old, with arguable caveats, of course.

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