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The final year of the U.S. Department of Education in the Obama administration is noteworthy for all its carnage
Published: Wednesday, December 21st, 2016 @ 2:55 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Accreditation is supposed to act as a quality guarantee for colleges and universities, but it works very poorly
Published: Wednesday, November 30th, 2016 @ 5:47 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Foremost among the criticisms of the way our administrative law system works is that bureaucratic agencies get to act as lawmaker, judge, jury, and executioner all rolled into one
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2016 @ 12:23 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Bipartisan agreement can be hard to find these days in Washington.
Published: Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 @ 11:45 am
By: jonah
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A federal bill that would require colleges and universities to provide applicants information about the costs and returns of higher education was approved on Monday by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2016 @ 4:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing students and parents at North Carolina public schools and universities filed suit Tuesday against the U.S. departments of Justice and Education.
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2016 @ 4:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The idea of free community college has become a topic of national debate in recent years, highlighted by Tennessee's and Oregon's enactment of statewide plans, and President Obama's advocacy for a nationwide program
Published: Monday, April 11th, 2016 @ 11:09 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Accreditation is like the pancreas: not very interesting, but a source of serious problems if it malfunctions
Published: Friday, April 8th, 2016 @ 7:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Looking back at all that happened in higher education this year is enough to make your head spin. One minute, state politicians are finally making good policies; the next, university officials are caving to irrational demands
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 10:04 am
By: John William Pope Center
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America's national obsession with raising our "educational attainment" level leads politicians and bureaucrats to focus on the silliest of things. Lately, that has been college accreditation.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:16 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee recently, I was asked by Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) if, with respect to higher education, I would favor eliminating the U.S. Department of Education.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 3:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The search for the next University of North Carolina system president has finally concluded.
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2015 @ 8:46 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Higher education has already become an important issue in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary race. It should receive considerable attention in the first primary date, scheduled for October 13 on CNN.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2015 @ 9:47 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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One day, Bill Bennett may be best remembered for saying (in 1987, while he was President Reagan's education secretary) that government student aid was largely responsible for the fact that the cost of going to college kept rising. What is called the "Bennett Hypothesis" has been heavily debated
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 10:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Division of Student Services at Beaufort County Community College announces the registration schedule for Summer 2015 Term and Fall 2015 Semester.
Published: Saturday, March 28th, 2015 @ 12:52 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Beaufort County Community College financial aid officers and specialists will be available 9 a.m. to noon at BCCC Saturday, Feb. 28, to help high school seniors and their families complete the necessary paperwork to apply for financial aid to attend college during the 2015-2016 academic year.
Published: Monday, February 2nd, 2015 @ 9:56 pm
By: Chris Downey
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At the end of October, the Department of Education released its much-awaited "gainful employment" rule.
Published: Friday, December 5th, 2014 @ 11:28 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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For all of the words devoted to our student loan mess (or "crisis" or "bubble"), little has been written on its origins. We know that student loan debt now exceeds $1 trillion and that many young Americans are struggling with a heavy burden, but how things got that way is largely a mystery.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 11:15 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Have a look at this “Financial Aid Offer” from a public university in the West
Published: Monday, September 15th, 2014 @ 5:39 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Ever since the obstreperous Occupy Wall Street protests of 2011, Americans have been getting an earful about the alleged crisis of student loan debt.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 12:12 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Until the mid-60s, the federal government had almost nothing to do with higher education, with college benefits for veterans under the GI Bill being the exception. But with the passage of the Higher Education Act, the government got massively into the student aid business.
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 1:30 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Sometimes a book is useful in ways that its author did not intend. That's the case with Why Higher Education Should Have a Leftist Bias by Donald Lazere, a professor emeritus in the English Department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 @ 11:05 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Every time a new study comes out regarding the "payoff" from college, I wonder: Will this finally be the one that takes note of widespread underemployment among recent grads and comprehends the impact of credential inflation?
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 6:48 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In his 1955 paper "The Role of Government in Education," Milton Friedman suggested the idea of equity contracts to finance college education. Friedman thought that loans were not the appropriate means of financing education. He argued that the better way was to advance the needed funds for...
Published: Friday, March 21st, 2014 @ 8:21 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The September issue of Money (a Time, Inc. publication) featured an article titled "Busting the 5 Myths of College Costs" by Penelope Wang. It claimed that many of the assumptions that parents hold on how to reduce the cost of college are outdated or wrong. Wang promised to give the...
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2013 @ 12:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Last September, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $3.3 million in grants for papers on the subject of federal student aid programs--specifically, how we should "reimagine" student aid. The papers were recently released, but there wasn't anything very imaginative in them.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 8:55 pm
By: George Leef
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When the New York Times finds a case of what economists call market failure, you can expect that its reporters will investigate it to the core. But when it stumbles across a clear case of government failure, expect at best a superficial and myopic investigation.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 @ 3:48 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Not long ago at a North Carolina community college, there always seemed to be fewer cars in the parking lot the week after Pell grant checks were sent out. And one instructor noticed that some students weren't taking the final in her class. Why? They hadn't studied and knew they were going to...
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2013 @ 9:42 pm
By: Duke Cheston
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In 2006, Patrick "Pat" Brown, a member of Mother of Mercy Catholic Church in Washington, found himself faced with an interesting problem.
Published: Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 @ 11:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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