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The Starbucks College Achievement Plan, known as SCAP, is the most expansive employer-sponsored education benefit in American retail. Launched in June 2014 through an exclusive partnership with Arizona State University, SCAP gives benefits-eligible U.S. Starbucks partners the ability to earn a first-time bachelor’s degree entirely online at Arizona State...

Pursuing a college degree while receiving Social Security disability benefits involves navigating a set of overlapping rules that most guides get partially wrong. The concern most people have — that going to school will automatically trigger a review of their disability status or reduce their benefits — reflects a...

University of the Cumberlands (UC) is a private nonprofit university in Williamsburg, Kentucky, founded in 1888. It holds regional accreditation through SACSCOC and has grown into one of the larger graduate-enrollment institutions in Kentucky, with approximately 4,000 undergraduates and roughly 15,000 graduate students across its on-campus, online, and hybrid...

Verizon offers $8,000 per year in tuition assistance to full-time employees. That is a higher annual cap than almost any major U.S. employer, including AT&T, T-Mobile, Comcast, Walmart, Starbucks, and most of the large employers that have built tuition benefit programs in the last decade. Part-time employees working 20...

If you are a Certified Nursing Assistant who has spent months or years at the bedside, taking vitals, repositioning patients, working alongside nurses every shift, you already know more about nursing care than most people who sit down to apply to nursing school. That experience is an asset. The...

For adult learners who have accumulated college credits across multiple institutions, military service, professional certifications, or independent study, transfer credit acceptance is often the single most important factor in choosing an online university. A generous transfer policy can reduce a four-year degree timeline to one year or less and...

The salary gap between LPN and RN is one of the most significant credential-to-credential pay jumps in healthcare. The Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the May 2024 median for licensed practical nurses at $62,340 and the median for registered nurses at $93,600. That is a difference of more than...