According to the National Student Clearinghouse, around one-third of college students transfer between schools before earning their degree.
Published: Thursday, October 12th, 2023 @ 8:41 am
By: Ben Coulter, Ed.D.
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Program provides financial, academic support for engineering students
Published: Sunday, June 13th, 2021 @ 10:48 am
By: ECU News Services
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Today is no ordinary day at the rabbit patch-today is my fathers' eighty third birthday. People like to brag on their family, and I am no different ... but believe me, I have every right to.
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 6:27 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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It is now October, and "morning has broken". The day dawned fair and the air was crisp at the "early service".
Published: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017 @ 7:26 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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Joyner Library announced the winners of its annual W. Keats Sparrow Writing Award for student research during an Aug. 23 ceremony held in the Janice L. Faulkner Gallery, located on the second floor of the library
Published: Wednesday, August 30th, 2017 @ 11:31 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The following is Governor Roy Cooper's 2017 State of the State Address
Published: Wednesday, March 15th, 2017 @ 6:40 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Like hospital "superbugs" that grow increasingly deadly and difficult to kill, cheating by college students keeps morphing into new and more virulent forms
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2016 @ 3:49 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Western Carolina University senior Tyann Stubbs juggles two on-campus jobs to help pay her own way through school. And she loves her work
Published: Thursday, August 25th, 2016 @ 1:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has one of the most-polled electorates in the United States
Published: Tuesday, June 7th, 2016 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently I coached a bright high school senior on how to get his college admission essay into shape
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 @ 7:28 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The only thing some people dread more than public speaking is death. That's according to Dr. Pamela Hopkins, director of East Carolina University's Speech Communication Center, where students, faculty, staff and community members learn to overcome anxiety to make effective presentations.
Published: Friday, September 11th, 2015 @ 3:02 am
By: ECU News Services
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One of the things that most frightens non-tenured faculty members is the prospect of getting too low an average on end-of-term student course evaluations.
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2015 @ 3:01 am
By: John William Pope Center
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We first told you about this guy — representing Orange County in the General Assembly. He feel guilty about being white. And it’s earned him ridicule from a national audience that included Rush Limbaugh.
Published: Friday, May 29th, 2015 @ 7:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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If you remember (or have read about) Watergate, you'll see how closely that debacle resembles the current scandal at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Published: Thursday, April 9th, 2015 @ 5:56 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A day after President Obama unexpectedly unveiled a plan offering more than $34 billion in subsidies for community college tuition to millions of Americans, U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th District, chastened the president for his "bad habit" of creating programs without funding mechanisms.
Published: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 @ 4:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For a long time, those of us who argue that higher education’s standards are eroding had to point to anecdotes to support our case.
Published: Monday, October 20th, 2014 @ 6:29 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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My mother often told me “college is what you make of it.” When I arrived at UNC-Chapel Hill from Cullowhee, a small town in western North Carolina, I intended to do just that. But my first efforts were disastrous—trying to get at least a C in a very hard course brought down my other grades.
Published: Tuesday, July 1st, 2014 @ 12:28 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A hearing at Winston-Salem State University to investigate a professor's alleged misconduct raised more questions about the administration than it answered about the professor.
Published: Sunday, March 9th, 2014 @ 12:23 am
By: John William Pope Center
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It happens at the end of every semester. As final grades are computed and entered, faculty all across the United States hear those inner demons talking. Some expound quite loudly; others merely whisper.
Published: Friday, February 7th, 2014 @ 11:13 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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I worked at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) for more than four years, rising to the post of director of academic technology in the school's Information Technology Department. My first position at the school was that of instructional designer in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and...
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 @ 4:35 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Registrar's Office at Beaufort County Community College has released the honor roll for the 2011 Fall Semester. Full-time students maintaining a grade point average (GPA) of 4.0 were placed on the all A's list. Students maintaining a 3.5 GPA or better were placed on the Dean's List.
Published: Sunday, March 11th, 2012 @ 12:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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