{"id":26143,"date":"2018-08-03T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=26143"},"modified":"2018-08-03T12:00:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T17:00:26","slug":"apsu-veterans-upward-bound-offering-college-help-and-free-pizza-to-prospective-military-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2018\/08\/03\/apsu-veterans-upward-bound-offering-college-help-and-free-pizza-to-prospective-military-students\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU Veterans Upward Bound offering college help (and free pizza) to prospective military students"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Austin Peay State University<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Austin Peay State University\u2019s Veterans Upward Bound is throwing several free pizza parties this month in an effort to show as many military veterans as possible the program\u2019s benefits.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first open house is 11:00am-2:00pm August 2nd, 2018 at Room 203 of the McReynolds Building.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_430069\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Austin-Peay-State-University-Veterans-Upward-Bound-to-host-Open-Houses.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-430069\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-430069\" title=\"Austin Peay State University\u2019s Veterans Upward Bound to hold open houses in August for military veterans.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Austin-Peay-State-University-Veterans-Upward-Bound-to-host-Open-Houses-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University\u2019s Veterans Upward Bound to hold open houses in August for military veterans.\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-430069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Peay State University\u2019s Veterans Upward Bound to hold open houses in August for military veterans.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Open houses also are planned during the same times on August 8th, 15th, 23rd and 30th.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans Upward Bound is a free U.S. Department of Education program designed to help eligible military veterans enter and succeed in college.<\/p>\n<p>APSU\u2019s program provides free services and materials to help veterans prepare for college, such as pre-college testing, admissions help, financial aid assistance and tutoring. APSU unveiled its new offices this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans Upward Bound is for veterans who aren\u2019t enrolled in college and haven\u2019t earned a four-year degree. They can be new or returning to college. Prospective students also must meet low-income criteria or have parents who didn\u2019t attain a four-year degree.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the open houses or the program, call 931.221.7600 or visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apsu.edu\/vub\" >www.apsu.edu\/vub<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Peay State University Clarksville, TN &#8211; Austin Peay State University\u2019s Veterans Upward Bound is throwing several free pizza parties this month in an effort to show as many military veterans as possible the program\u2019s benefits.&nbsp; The first open house is 11:00am-2:00pm August 2nd, 2018 at Room 203 of the McReynolds Building.<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,2080,262,825,6453,6474,1547,6473],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6NF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26143"}],"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=26143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26144,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26143\/revisions\/26144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}