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April/May 2009
GW Makes Major Commitment to Education of Veterans
In 1944, Donald Balfour, B.A. ’45, became the first recipient of the GI Bill of Rights.Now 65 years later, GW is showing its support to veterans with a major commitment worth an estimated $2.5 million. On April 28 on Kogan Plaza, President Under the plan, GW will pay 50 percent of remaining tuition and fee costs for undergraduate veterans after base GI Bill benefits are applied, with the Department of Veterans Affairs also contributing 50 percent, a GW investment of approximately Dr. Knapp was joined for the announcement by Tammy Duckworth, M.A. ’92, assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), author of the Post-9/11 GI Bill; and GW junior Brian Hawthorne, a student veteran and District director of the Student Veterans of America. “With this investment in future leaders of our nation, we are honoring our veterans and we are proud to stand with them and their families,” said Dr. Knapp. “We know that the next generation of
veterans at GW will make our campus—and our Duckworth echoed those sentiments in her
remarks. “There is no better investment than education,”
she said. “The Post-9/11 Bill will provide
new opportunities that are essential to our
veterans, our workforce and our economy.” A World War II and Korean War veteran and
beneficiary of the original GI Bill, Warner said, “America made its greatest investment in the World
War II generation and successive generations by
passing this law.” Hawthorne thanked GW for participating in the
Yellow Ribbon Program and said the University’s
commitment to veterans’ education is more than just
money. “It sends a clear message to both the veteran
community and academia that those who have
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