Veterans Receive Tuition Help from JWU

Charlotte, N.C. – Jul 2, 2009
Johnson & Wales University will help veterans and their families afford a college education.

MEDIA CONTACT: Melinda Law, communication and media relations manager, 980-598-1004.

The Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program (Yellow Ribbon Program) is a provision of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008. This program allows institutions of higher learning (degree granting institutions) in the United States to voluntarily enter into an agreement with VA to fund tuition expenses that exceed the highest public in-state undergraduate tuition rate. The institution can contribute up to 50% of those expenses and VA will match the same amount as the institution.

JWU agrees to: 

• Provide contributions to eligible individuals who apply for the Yellow Ribbon Program on a first-come first-served basis, regardless of the rate at which the individual is pursuing training in any given academic year; 
• Provide contributions during the current academic year and all subsequent academic years in which the JWU is participating in the Yellow Ribbon Program and the student maintains satisfactory progress, conduct, and attendance; 
• Make contributions toward the program on behalf of the individual in the form of a grant, scholarship, etc.;
• State the dollar amount that will be contributed for each participant during the academic year (Initial awards for future terms may be projected);
• State the maximum number of individuals for whom contributions will be made in any given academic year.

In addition, there is a “books and supplies stipend” paid to JWU students: $41.67 per credit hour up to 24 credits in an academic year, totaling $1,000.