OPM: Federal employees to get scholarships, tuition breaks at 4 colleges

Federal Times: The Office of Personnel Management established new agreements with four colleges and universities on March 14 to provide federal employees with scholarships and tuition breaks to fill skill gaps in the workforce.

The schools — College for America at Southern New Hampshire University, Drexel University Online, Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies and the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business — agreed to the benefits to help develop mission-critical job skills in areas like acquisition, human resources, financial auditing, economics and information technology, particularly in cybersecurity and STEM-related fields, or science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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