As Congress Prepares to Expand GI Bill, Colleges Reach Out to Veterans

With Congress on the verge of enacting a measure that would drastically expand the GI Bill, a group of college presidents, student veterans, and military leaders met here last week to discuss how to make campuses friendlier to veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

During a two-day conference sponsored by the American Council on Education, college administrators shared approaches as varied as offering scholarships to disabled veterans (University of Idaho) and awarding

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