Roughly 5,000 veterans attending for-profit Ashford University may lose access to their GI Bill benefits in three weeks.
It's partly due to a decision Ashford made a year ago to shut down its physical campus in Clinton, Iowa. In July 2015, Ashford University -- and its parent company, Bridgepoint Education -- announced that the campus would close this May. The residential campus closed last month, however, staff and academic services needed for the institution's teach-out were moved to a separate Iowa-based online facility. On May 20, the Iowa Department of Education notified Ashford that it would no longer continue to be approved for GI Bill benefits after June 30.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/06/10/ashford-university-brink-losing-gi-bill-benefits