[Oacrao-l] FW: URGENT: OK National Guard May Lose Federal Funding to Attend Your University (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Peaster, Rita]

Passing along some information from Gina regarding the DoD MOU governing federal tuition assistance for military.  In addition, I've included a link below to a recent AACRAO Transcript article about the DoD clarifications.  This article provides a brief overview along with a link to the DoD's website that lists the MOU clarifications.



http://www2.aacrao.org/transcript/index.cfm?fuseaction=show_view&doc_id=5211



Rita Gearhart Peaster
Associate Registrar
Oklahoma State University
322 Student Union
Phone: 405.744.3077
Fax: 405.744.8426
rita.peaster at okstate.edu<mailto:rita.peaster at okstate.edu>



-----Original Message-----
From: Wekke, Gina [mailto:gwekke at osrhe.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 1:16 PM
To: Peaster, Rita
Subject: URGENT: OK National Guard May Lose Federal Funding to Attend Your University (UNCLASSIFIED)



Rita, you likely received this already, but just in case you feel the need to share it with OACRAO.





Dear University/School Representative,



PLEASE FORWARD MESSAGE TO UNIVERSITY/SCHOOL BUSINESS OFFICIALS.



If you have not already been notified via the attached letter, the Department of Defense (DOD) has revised/updated the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) governing the acceptance of Federal Tuition Assistance (FTA) payments for Service Member's (SM) voluntary civilian education. DOD has placed a deadline of 31 December 2011 for all institutions to have a signed MOU on record. If a school/university does not have a signed MOU on file by 31 December 2011, then our Oklahoma National Guard SMs will not be able to utilize FTA to attend your institution on or after 1 January 2012. More information about this DOD MOU can be found at www.dodmou.com<http://www.dodmou.com>.



This office will be sending out the attached "FYI-Update" document via distribution email to as many National Guard Units as possible in order to inform our SMs about this issue and its' potential circumstances.



There is an understanding that schools/universities will make their decisions based on what is best for their institutions. Please review the DOD MOU and give proper attention and consideration. If your institution can agree to the conditions of the DOD MOU, then please perform the necessary steps to have a signed DOD MOU on record by 31 December 2011. If your institution has issues with signing the DOD MOU, then please address those issues through www.dodmou.com<http://www.dodmou.com> and/or State government officials. Thank you.



Howard C. Erikson

WO1, SC, OKARNG

Education Services Officer

Oklahoma Army National Guard (J1)

3537 Military Circle

Oklahoma City, OK 73111

DSN: 628-5251

COMM: 405-228-5251

FAX: 405-606-7219




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