If you live in the Capital District of NY, please consider coming to visit us on Wednesday, November 4th. We are holding an Open House at our campus, located at 7 Columbia Circle, Albany from 10am to 8pm. We will have representatives available from all of our schools and from Financial Aid to help you learn how best to take advantage of your GI Bill benefits. Refreshments will be served and there will be door prizes! For more information, please click here.

Need a little help to kick-start your social media marketing? Here are some tips from the Air Force. From a post by David Meerman Scott on WebInkNow, the U.S. Air Force is now Armed with Social Media. The Air Force apparently now has a team called the Air Force Emerging Technology team, led by Capt. David Faggard of the Air Force Public Affairs Agency in the Pentagon.

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The designation follows years of research, surveys and data analysis by G.I.Jobs, and places Excelsior among the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools serving the military nationwide. The surveys evaluated 7,000 institutions on their efforts to recruit and retain military and veteran students, recruitment results, academic accreditations and other factors.

The designation follows two consecutive years in which another publication, Military Advanced Education, named Excelsior among the top military-friendly colleges and universities nationwide in 2008 and 2009.

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Be sure to check out our Excelsior College – Military & Veterans Facebook page to see some the pictures our team took at the DOD Education Symposium last week in Atlanta, GA. Everyone had a great time!

Our team is headed to the DoD conference this week in Atlanta, GA. Stop by to visit our booth and say hello!

Richard Allgood, US Navy

Be sure to check out our Excelsior College – Military & Veterans Facebook page to see some of the pics of our military grads. What a great Commencement weekend we had – some really amazing stories. Congrats to all!