National Defense Committee was honored to host Congressman Burgess Owens today for a discussion on Education Benefits, Recruitment, and Veterans at the Republican National Convention. Congressman Owens is a tireless advocate for active-duty military members and veterans—America’s heroes—and has worked…
National Defense Committee Executive Director Bob Carey testified today before the House Veterans Affairs Committee on the urgent need to pass the Veterans 2nd Amendment Restoration Act. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has indiscriminately violated veterans’ rights for decades—not…
As students flee four-year colleges and with public confidence in higher education at historic lows, crusading activist bureaucrats seek to prop up and perpetuate traditional universities’ government-mandated market advantages by selectively limiting access to career colleges. As NDC noted in…
We have written a lot about the Department of Education’s efforts to paint career colleges as a scam that saddles veterans with debt and leaves them unprepared for life after a degree. In reality, career colleges offer non-traditional students a…
Compliant members of Congress and government officials, upon whom traditional four-year universities lavish millions in political campaign contributions and lobbying support, seem only too willing to perpetuate a false narrative against career colleges. The problem is the traditional liberal arts…
Military members and veterans aren’t typical college students. They are usually older than their classmates, often times have families, are looking to get the skills they need for their next jobs, and are also balancing the integration from military service…
The Department of Education has gone to great lengths to single out, penalize, and publicly smear career colleges, faith-based schools, and other innovative, non-traditional higher education options. These exertions are part of a bigger effort to prop up and maintain…
Over the past decade, the Department of Education has painted career colleges as predatory schools eager to prey on naïve military veterans to feather their own pockets. It has been aided in this public smear campaign by allies on Capitol…
The following is authored by Captain Bob “Shoebob” Carey, U.S. Navy (Ret), Executive Director of the National Defense Committee Who would have thought the relatively small $787 million global market for something called “nitrocellulose” could place Israel’s, Taiwan’s, Ukraine’s, and…
Led by the National Defense Committee, a coalition of military and veterans’ organizations called on Education Secretary Miguel Cardona today to investigate “disproportionate representation” on the Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking committees. Five organizations representing a broad range of military…
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