{"id":12564,"date":"2012-09-19T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=12564"},"modified":"2012-09-19T20:19:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T01:19:29","slug":"g-i-jobs-magazine-names-austin-peay-state-university-military-friendly-school-for-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2012\/09\/19\/g-i-jobs-magazine-names-austin-peay-state-university-military-friendly-school-for-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"G.I. Jobs Magazine names Austin Peay State University Military Friendly School for 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-47306\" title=\"Austin Peay State University\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/apsu-logo-200x123.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University\" width=\"200\" height=\"123\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Austin Peay State University has been named by G.I. Jobs magazine as Military Friendly School for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The honor ranks APSU in the top 15 percent of all colleges, universities and trade schools nationwide, according to a letter from the magazine\u2019s publisher, Rich McCormack. The magazine surveyed more than 12,000 schools, according to the announcement.<!--more--><br \/>\nMilitary Friendly Schools were chosen based on a postsecondary institution\u2019s policies, efforts and results used to recruit and retain military and veteran students, the letter noted. For instance, in early 2010, APSU President Tim Hall launched the Military Education Task Force to help foster a greater understanding of the needs in training and curriculum for military science and leadership programs.<\/p>\n<p>Then in September 2010, APSU opened the Military Student Center inside the Morgan University Center, Room 120.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2009, APSU opened the new Austin Peay Center at Fort Campbell facility, further strengthening its commitment to educating military personnel. Of the four institutions offering classes at Fort Campbell, KY, APSU has the highest enrollment.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MilitaryFriendlySchool2013.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-136480\" title=\"Military Friendly School for 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MilitaryFriendlySchool2013-200x144.jpg\" alt=\"Military Friendly School for 2013\" width=\"200\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>In addition, APSU\u2019s Office of Veterans Affairs, in collaboration with the Education Services staff at Fort Campbell, KY, continues to work to educate veterans, soldiers and their families on the benefits and requirements of the Post-9\/11 G.I. Bill, which went into effect August 1st, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>APSU will be included in the magazine\u2019s listing, Guide to Military Friendly Schools. Military Friendly Schools are not ranked in the list.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Military Friendly Schools, go online to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.militaryfriendlyschools.com\" >www.militaryfriendlyschools.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; Austin Peay State University has been named by G.I. Jobs magazine as Military Friendly School for 2013. The honor ranks APSU in the top 15 percent of all colleges, universities and trade schools nationwide, according to a letter from the magazine\u2019s publisher, Rich McCormack. The magazine surveyed more than 12,000 schools, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,16318,14065,1355,4400,11642,11542,262,825,1233,4397,4398,16319,1342],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-3gE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12566,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564\/revisions\/12566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}