| The American Council on Education released a report | | | | gained federal tuition benefits were 15 percentage |
| towards the end of August, 2009, on the basis of | | | | points more anticipated to get full time enrollment in |
| which, the new GI Bill could increase the number of | | | | college and nine percentage points more likely to enroll |
| veterans along with active-duty servicemen who get | | | | in a four-year public college as compared to veterans |
| full-time enrollment and take classes of four-year | | | | and service members who did not earn the benefits. |
| college institutions. | | | | That year, around 43 percent of veterans and service |
| The report derives its results from current attitudes of | | | | members got enrolled in two-year public colleges, while |
| veterans as revealed from a number of government | | | | 21 percent attended four-year public institutions. Private |
| studies. In the educational year of 2007/2008, | | | | for-profit and nonprofit colleges both had around a |
| undergraduate veterans and servicemen who gained | | | | 13-percent share of the enrollment. |
| federal tuition perquisites were 15% more expected to | | | | Another government study shows that about half of |
| attend college on a full time basis and 9% expected to | | | | recent veterans and service members surveyed |
| attend a 4-year public college as compared to | | | | referred to cost as a key factor in determining the |
| veterans and service men who did not gain the tuition | | | | college they want to attend. The new GI Bill, which |
| benefits in any way. The report shows that in the | | | | was implemented on August 1, offers veterans of the |
| same educational year, 43% of veterans and the | | | | wars of Iraq and Afghanistan with sufficient assistance |
| servicemen attended 2-year public colleges, whereas | | | | to get enrollment in the most classy state universities |
| 21% took classes in 4-year public institutions. | | | | and colleges. |
| Astonishingly, a stunning 13% part of the enrollment | | | | According to Alexandria Walton Radford, the author |
| was into the private for-profit and non-profit colleges. | | | | of the report, these prolonged benefits are expected |
| According to a survey, nearly half of the fresh | | | | to push veterans to look for admission into more |
| veterans and servicemen referred to college tuition | | | | costly colleges chiefly if those institutions show |
| and fees as a highly influential factor in making choice | | | | openness to their demands. |
| for college enrollment. The GI Bill provides veterans of | | | | As open as the report was, it fails to consider the |
| the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq with sufficient | | | | influence that the prolonged tuition benefits could have |
| assistance to get enrollment in the most classy state | | | | on enrollment in private institutions and at the same |
| universities and colleges. | | | | time doesn't take into account of any issues |
| The report, which derives its data from numerous | | | | confronted by veterans transitioning into the education |
| government studies, bases its results on the | | | | network; neither does it extend proposals as to the |
| understanding of recent veterans. In 2007-8, | | | | way colleges can be turned into more |
| undergraduate veterans and service members who | | | | "veteran-friendly". |