Coffee giant Starbucks announced zero-tuition price will now extend a 100 percent tuition-free four-year college benefit to the spouse or child of every U.S. veteran or active military reservist employed 20 or more hours a week. Read here more.
In a first of its kind collaboration with Arizona State University, in a leadership of the U.S. Department of Education, Starbucks offering full tuition coverage for every year of college to earn a bachelor’s degree. Read here how it works.
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Starbucks will also now be paying for up to 80 hours per year for service obligations of employees who are active duty or reservists in the U.S. Armed Forces or National Guard.
Starbucks also announced that it has already succeeded in hiring more than 5, 500 veterans and military spouses, fulfilling more than 50 percent of the commitment made just two years ago to employ at least 10, 000 vets and their spouses by 2018.
In order to achieve this, Starbucks has invested in several specific strategies: It hired four dedicated military recruiters in key focus cities across the country including Seattle, D.C. and Austin, established more than 80 connections with military bases, installation transition and educational offices across the country and overseas, attended more than 200 military hiring fairs across the nation that recruit veterans and military spouses, and expanded their employee affinity group, the Starbucks Armed Forces Network, from one to 12 regional chapters.
