Review of Education, Training, and Employment Programs Administered by the Veterans' Administration: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Education, Training, and Employment of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, February 20 and March 6, 1980 |
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Page 131 - Resolved by the National Executive Committee of The American Legion in regular meeting assembled in Indianapolis, Indiana...
Page 153 - Mr. Chairman and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee, it is a privilege to appear before you today to present the views of Paralyzed Veterans of America concerning veterans
Page 163 - Administrator finds that more than 85 per centum of the students enrolled in the course are having all or part of their tuition, fees, or other charges paid to or for them by the educational institution or the Veterans' Administration under this chapter or chapter 31 or 35 of this title.
Page 157 - American Association of community and Junior Colleges American Association of State Colleges and Universities American Council on Education Association of American universities Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...
Page 107 - Mr. Chairman. I would be pleased to answer any questions which you or members of the subcommittee may have.
Page 150 - Subcommittee. On behalf of the Blinded Veterans Association I wish to express my sincere appreciation for this opportunity to appear before you today. The Blinded Veterans Association is very concerned about the escalation of the unemployment rate among our nation's Vietnam-era veterans. The Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Page 11 - cooperative" program, other than a "farm cooperative" program, means a full-time program of education which consists of institutional courses and alternate phases of training in a business or industrial establishment with the training in the business or industrial establishment being strictly supplemental to the institutional portion.
Page 11 - An eligible veteran who is enrolled in an educational institution for a "farm cooperative" program consisting of institutional agricultural courses prescheduled to fall within 44 weeks of any period of 12 consecutive months and who pursue such program on — (A) a full-time basis (a minimum of ten clock hours per week or four hundred and forty clock hours in such year...
Page 124 - Chairman, have full and complete hearings on everything that they are doing down there because as the chairman of this subcommittee and the chairman of the full committee...
Page 11 - ... (B) a three-quarter-time basis (a minimum of 7 clock hours per week), or (C) a half-time basis (a minimum of 5 clock hours per week), shall be eligible to receive an educational assistance allowance at the appropriate rate provided in the table in paragraph (2) of this subsection, if such eligible veteran is concurrently engaged in agricultural employment which is relevant to such institutional agricultural courses as determined under standards prescribed by the Secretary.