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Yorktown University’s Military Advisor

Yorktown University is pleased to announce that Dr. Wade Shol will serve as Yorktown University’s advisor to all military personnel. 

Wade Shol successfully completed both his Associates (1985) and Bachelors (1992) degrees while serving on active duty. This was accomplished by attending night school and taking 'Forces Afloat' classes while at sea. He also completed college correspondence courses while assigned to isolated duty locations where formal classroom training was not available. This experience enables him to fully understand the challenges faced by military personnel as they work toward a college degree.

Dr. Shol's military training includes assignment to Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California, Amphibious Assault Vehicle School, Camp Pendleton, California; Machinist Mate Class 'A' School, Great Lakes, Illinois; Naval Nuclear Power School, Orlando, Florida; and Main Propulsion Maintenance School, Norfolk, Virginia. Military duty stations included the U.S. Marine Corps 4th Infantry Division (1981); the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1982-1987); and Naval Support Force, Antarctica, 33rd Winter-Over Detachment (1987-1988). Following a temporary duty assignment to New Zealand, Dr. Shol then spent his last three years of service as an instructor at the Pacific Fleet Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) School, Coronado, California. Military awards include the Navy Commendation Medal; two Navy Achievement Medals; Commander, Naval Air Force, Atlantic Fleet, Letter of Commendation; Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist (ESWS); and Master Training Specialist (SERE) designation.

If you are Active Duty, Reserve or a Veteran and have concerns or questions about your education goals, contact Dr. Shol at registrar@yorktownuniversity.com

University Military Tuition Preference

Members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard, Reserves, and National Guard, Veterans and dependents qualify for Yorktown University’s "Military Tuition Plan"

A New Blog—Dontquitu.com

Yorktown University is pleased to announce the launch of a new blog. 

http://www.dontquitu.com is offered as a service to students facing difficult financial decisions that may compel them to leave school, or enroll at less costly colleges.

There are four reasons why a college education is so costly:  1) a federal government “Great Society” program established during President Lyndon Johnson’s administration that provides grants and subsidized loans, 2) high barriers to accreditation, 3) a system of university governance that gives legal power to Trustees but actual power to tenured Faculty and 4) higher education has successfully marketed the wrong-headed idea that everyone can and should be college educated.  These four factors have created a perfect storm that now challenges working families to provide for the college education of their children.

What are students to do who must decide whether to leave school or transfer to a less costly institution? 

One answer is to examine every alternative available from the local community college to the many good accredited Internet-based universities that use new technologies to provide high quality low cost degree programs.

Another alternative is to ask whether a college education is the best course of action students should take.  The United States has developed some of the finest career colleges that are often better suited to students’ abilities and financial needs. 

This important essay by Yorktown University Trustee [Photo] Peter Wood, “Undowments: Higher Education Goes for Broke,” argues that for some, if not most students, going into debt in order to earn a college degree is not a wise investment.”

http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?Doc_Id=415

Do you Twitter?

Never miss updates about Dontquitu events and Faculty!  Sign up with Twitter at http://twitter.com and connect to Dontquitu’s Twitter network of persons concerned about higher education. 

Yorktown University Announces a Series of Weekly Webcasts

On November 24 at 4:00 pm (MTN) Yorktown University will conduct our first Webcast in a series of thirty-one weekly events featuring Yorktown University’s Founding Faculty.

The topic of the November 24 Webcast is The History and Meaning of America’s Thanksgiving Holiday. 

Discussants include Yorktown University Founding Faculty members Bill Alle and Carey Roberts. 

Click here to view Dr. Allen’s website:   and here to view Dr. Roberts website:

Yorktown University was one of the first institutions to use new technologies to bring serious scholarship in the Social Sciences and Humanities to Americans concerned about the lack of diversity in higher education.  If you’re skeptical about that claim, visit our podcasts of Faculty lectures at iTunes.com. 

BlogTalkRadio

Now Yorktown University is taking this one step farther and using BlogTalkRadio to produce weekly discussions with Yorktown instructors.  Here’s a schedule of those discussions and here’s a link to the biographies of Yorktown University Faculty.

Larry Schweikart

Professor Larry Schweikart has published another new book!

48 Liberal Lies About American History

You can read about his new book at Frontpagemag.com

Yorktown University’s Director of Admissions

If you contact Yorktown University, the first person to respond is Chris Evans.  Chris earned a BA Degree in Economics from California State University Northridge.  While there he also earned Secondary Education Teaching endorsements in Social Studies and Business Education.  During his tenure as a high school Social Studies teacher Chris was asked by the Colorado Department of Education to be a co-contributor and writer of a Secondary Education Curriculum Guide for teaching Economics in Colorado high schools.

Chris has done graduate work in History and Economics at the University of Colorado and the University of Denver.  Before joining Yorktown University, Chris had a successful ten year corporate career as a Facilities Planner and owned and operated three businesses.  Chris spent one year in Washington, DC at the National Journalism Center, founded by M. Stanton Evans, and at Human Events doing research and writing about politics.

Yorktown University’s Campus Newspaper

Here’s a list of some recent opinion essays published at the Yorktown Patriot 

“The Presidential Transition as a Noun,”

“Another Missile Crisis”

“How Big is Too Big?”

“Service and Sacrifice”

“My Friend, Milton Friedman”

“Hank Paulson, Vito Corleone?”