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POST-9/11 GI BILL YELLOW RIBBON PROGRAM
Service Central
Phone: 303-963-3230
Fax: 303-963-3231
E-mail:
VASupport@ccu.edu
Post-9/11 GI Bill
VA Yellow Ribbon Program
The Post-9/11 GI Bill is a new education benefit program for veterans who served on active duty on or after September 11, 2001. The Post-9/11 GI Bill is considered the most comprehensive education benefit package since the original GI Bill was signed into law in 1944.
Effective August 1, 2009, Colorado Christian University will participate in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Yellow Ribbon Program. The program is designed to help veteran-students offset the cost of attending a private or graduate school.
A provision of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, the Yellow Ribbon Program specifies that degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States may voluntarily fund up to 50 percent of their veteran-students’ tuition and fees that exceed the highest rate at a public, in-state school. In return, Veterans Affairs will match the contribution dollar for dollar, providing the remaining funds needed to cover the difference.
For all CCU students who qualify for the Yellow Ribbon Program, the University has agreed to contribute up to $2,500 per academic year for each veteran enrolled as an adult degree completion student or a graduate student in our College of Adult and Graduate Studies, and $5,000 per veteran enrolled as a traditional undergraduate student in our College of Undergraduate Studies. With Veterans Affairs matching in full, this means that qualifying students could receive between $5,000 and $10,000 each year toward financing their education.
As long as CCU remains a Yellow Ribbon institution, the benefit will be renewable annually for students who maintain satisfactory academic progress, conduct, and attendance. Awards will be presented in the form of scholarships.
