{"id":587,"date":"2016-08-09T22:55:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T22:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/veterans\/?p=587"},"modified":"2016-08-09T22:55:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T22:55:49","slug":"osu-expands-veterans-dependent-tuition-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/veterans\/2016\/08\/09\/osu-expands-veterans-dependent-tuition-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon State University expands the Veterans Dependent Tuition Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<strong>Veterans Dependent Tuition Program\u00a0<\/strong>may now be used by eligible students for online courses and\u00a0on campus courses offered by OSU, OSU-Cascades, and OSU Ecampus.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally this benefit was for courses taken on campus only.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Veterans Dependent Tuition Program\u00a0<\/strong>provides Oregon residents a full tuition waiver (not fees) for a bachelor&#8217;s or master&#8217;s degree for a child or spouse of a member of the United States Armed Forces who either died in active duty, became 100% disabled in connection with military service, or died as a result of a disability sustained in active duty. Or the student must be a child (including adopted child or stepchild) of a Purple Heart recipient, alive or deceased, who was relieved or discharged from service in the Armed Forces of the United States with either an honorable discharge or a general discharge under honorable conditions and was awarded the Purple Heart in 2001 or thereafter for wounds received in combat.<\/p>\n<p>The benefit\u00a0still does not apply to study abroad programs.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information contact the Military and Veteran Resources Advisor at: <a href=\"mailto:veteranresources@oregonstate.edu\">veteranresources@oregonstate.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Veterans Dependent Tuition Program\u00a0may now be used by eligible students for online courses and\u00a0on campus courses offered by OSU, OSU-Cascades, and OSU Ecampus. Traditionally this benefit was for courses taken on campus only. The\u00a0Veterans Dependent Tuition Program\u00a0provides Oregon residents a full tuition waiver (not fees) for a bachelor&#8217;s or master&#8217;s degree for a child or&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/veterans\/2016\/08\/09\/osu-expands-veterans-dependent-tuition-program\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}