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Army Education Center

Mailing Address:
Rock Island Arsenal Education Center
Building 56, 1st Fl
ATTN:  AMSTA-RI-CF-EDU
Rock Island IL  61299-5000
Phone: (309) 782-1849
FAX:    (309) 782-1841
DSN:  793
Hours:  Monday-Friday, 0700-1630

NEW:  GoArmyEd.com  is a virtual gateway to request tuition assistance online anytime for classroom distance learning and earmyU online college course. 

NEW:  earmyU Statement of Undestanding(SOU).   (Requires Adobe Acrobat)
Save to PC, then fax to 309-782-1841 Attn: earmyU Counselor.   Commander must sign form.  Email responses scan be sent to earmyu@ria.army.mil

RIA Education Center (earmyU) services all active duty enlisted personnel, including AGR, physically located in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and the greater St. Louis area in Missouri. earmyU offers 146 degree and certification programs from 29 different educational institutions. Web-based courses allow soldiers to study at times that are most convenient for them, wherever they are stationed. Earmyu.com is the website for more information. 309-782-6343 is the number for RIA earmyU contact.

Rock Island Arsenal Education Center services all military personnel from Bloomington north to the Wisconsin Border in Illinois, and from the Illinois border west to DesMoines in Iowa.  We also serve dependents, retirees, and civilian employees on the Rock Island Arsenal.  This support includes:

• Post Secondary Education Goals
• Education Instruction
• Basic Skills
• Educational Counseling
• Testing (Clep, DSST, ACT, SAT, Certifications, Proctoring Services, etc.)
• MOS Library
• Distance Learning (Correspondence Courses (Paper), On-Line Internet Courses)
• Evaluation of Military Credits (AART's Transcripts, DD295 Evaluations)  
• Tuition Assistance Program....
  The Tuition Assistance (TA) program provides financial assistance for voluntary off-duty education programs in support of a soldier's professional and personal self-development goals. All soldiers (officers, warrant officers and enlisted) on active duty and National Guard and Army Reserve on active duty pursuant to Title 10 or Title 32 U.S. Code, are authorized to participate in the TA program. Active duty members of other Services who are supported by the Army under provisions of an Inter-service Support Agreement also are eligible. 
  
  Military on active duty can receive tuition assistance (TA) for $4,500 annually at the rate of 100% of tuition costs. There is a maximum cap of $250 per semester hour (SH) - [$167.50 per quarter hour (QH)]. 
  
  Before obtaining TA, soldiers must contact an education counselor to declare an educational goal and an education plan. The Army Continuing Education System (ACES) requires that a degree plan be in the Soldiers Education File DA form 669. A Degree Plan is an outline of required courses for a degree and is signed by a counselor from the college granting the degree.  It usually lists all transfer credit and CLEP credit courses accepted for a degree as well as courses that must be completed at the college. Courses listed on the DA form 2171 that correspond to courses on the approved degree plan will be approved if received before the last day of late registration.

Educational Helpful Links

http://gradcenter.org   - The GradCenter, through its member institutions, serves the graduate education needs of place-bound students whose work and family responsibilities make traditional on-campus study difficult to impossible. Choose from over 70 graduate degree programs scheduled locally by member institutions offered in convenient locations, utilizing flexible course scheduling

 http://aarts.army.mil  - AARTS - stands for Army/American Council on Education Registry Transcript System and represents a partnership between the Army and the American Council on Education (ACE).  The transcript translates a soldier's formal military education and job experience into civilian language and includes college equivalent credit recommendations.

http://atsc.army.mil/accp/aipd.htm - The Army Correspondence Course Program is the formal nonresident extension of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command service schools' curriculum. 

http://www.perscom.army.mil/education - contains information on Army Education regulations, policies, and directives and specific programs managed by Army, Loan Repayment Programs, Financial Aid, Answers to many questions concerning Education.

http://voled.doded.mil/   The DOD Voluntary Education Program site has materials on testing, Troops to Teachers program, National testing dates, DOD Policies and regulations on education, Distance Learning Information, DANTES Certification Programs,  and much more.

http://www.gibill.va/gov/ - Department of Veterans Affairs Education Service Home Page.  The GI bill and all questions concerning the use of VA funds for education.  Great resource to help answer those questions of who qualifies and how much you get, etc.

http://www.ed.gov - The U.S. Department of Education (ED) Home Page provides information on Pell Grants and other aid programs along with all the many areas that the Department covers.

http://www.finaid.org - The Financial Aid Information Page is a good search engine for discovering possible  resources to help pay the bills.

http://www.freschino.com - The Free Scholarship Search Service informs you of those wonderful no pay back grants to fund education.

http://www.ed.gov/offices/ope/students/accred.htm - The Nationally Recognized Accrediting Agencies checks out whether a school is accredited so that your money and hard work will mean something when you finish?  

http://www.collegenet.com - CollegeNET (Online college application and free financial aid search) - searches for a college that has the program that you want and whether or not you can get some, most or all of the program by distance education.

http://www.gibillexpress.com -  Helps to find veteran scholarships for you, your spouse and dependents of veterans.  It also has a lot of information on the GI Bill and veteran friendly schools that can give you some special attention.

http://www.students.gov -   Access America for Students contains Financial Aid Forms and other interesting stuff.  Lots of links to services.

http://www.uncwill.edu/stuaff/career - UNCW Career Services contains helpful information on what you can do with different college majors.  You don't have to be a student with the college to use some of the information.

DISCLAIMER OF EXTERNAL LINKS
The hyperlinks to other web sites on this page do not constitute endorsement by the Department of Defense or the Rock Island Arsenal.  External links are provided as a service to users of this web site.