Thanks to President Barack Obama’s debut as a contributor for the Journal of the American Medical Association, the “public option” has made its way back into the great health care debate
Published: Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 @ 10:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ethical treatment of Plants is just as important as it is for animals and humans.
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2016 @ 12:01 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Hamilton College has for years had an open curriculum, allowing students the freedom to shape their education as they think best. Whether that's a good idea is debatable, but the college is about to move in the opposite direction by instituting a "diversity requirement" for all students
Published: Tuesday, July 26th, 2016 @ 12:03 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In an attack on an Orlando, Florida, nightspot Sunday morning at about 2:00 a.m., 50 human being were left dead by one alleged Islamic terrorist
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 3:53 pm
By: Jim Kouri
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Payne credits her determination to a moment she says helped her to take control of her life. During the first semester of her senior year of high school, she received a rejection letter from East Carolina University, the only university she had set her sights on.
Published: Tuesday, May 24th, 2016 @ 4:33 am
By: ECU News Services
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The North Carolina Railroad Company has taken on a project that may be outside its core mission by announcing in January it would spend $13 million to purchase 875 acres of private land for the 1,500-acre Greensboro-Randolph Megasite project, an industrial site designed to attract a large automotive
Published: Tuesday, March 1st, 2016 @ 7:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Beginning in the 1960s, a movement developed in academia with the aim of transforming scholarly pursuits into instruments of social change
Published: Saturday, February 27th, 2016 @ 6:35 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation plans to continue its evaluation of CSX's request for $100 million toward a Johnston County intermodal project
Published: Thursday, February 4th, 2016 @ 2:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Obamacare's failing co-ops (consumer-operated and oriented health plans) simply reinforce the fact that government intervention in health care creates all sorts of problems.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 6:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Environmentalists like to preach that all life is connected - but they themselves are connected in an intricate web of activists, groups, money and influence. And our revamped Mapping the Left site kicks off by unveiling a new network showing how these links are spread across North Carolina.
Published: Friday, October 23rd, 2015 @ 6:12 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Higher education is often an ignored issue in presidential campaigns. The 2016 campaign, however, may be different.
Published: Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 @ 12:52 am
By: John William Pope Center
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It often seems as though the central mission of higher education today is promoting diversity. Diversity - which usually means racial, religious, and sexual diversity - is commonly accepted by most administrators as crucial to the success of the 21st-century university. More and more...
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2015 @ 1:21 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Yep. One has been founded on Capitol Hill. The founding group includes NINE Republican House members - with Mark Meadows (NC) and Mick Mulvaney (SC) being the only members from The Carolinas.
Published: Sunday, February 1st, 2015 @ 8:59 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The 1971 law reorganizing the University of North Carolina declared that the UNC system should "encourage an economical use of the state's resources" to further the state's constitutional mission of providing public higher education.
Published: Sunday, November 23rd, 2014 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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BCCC's Planning Committee has this week made available to our campus community the new Strategic Directions that were recently approved by the Board of Trustees.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 5:58 pm
By: Barbara Tansey
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In most states, community colleges offer only associate degrees in nursing, which require two to three years of education. But in five states Florida, Indiana, Nevada, New Mexico, and Washington they offer a four-year nursing bachelor's degree.
Published: Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014 @ 4:49 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The 1971 law reorganizing the University of North Carolina declared that the UNC system should "encourage an economical use of the state's resources" to further the state's constitutional mission of providing public higher education.
Published: Monday, September 22nd, 2014 @ 9:29 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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For all its power and political connections, America’s higher education establishment can be very thin-skinned.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 12:45 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Continuing fiscal challenges were front and center during the regular meeting of the East Carolina University Board of Trustees held July 17-18 at the East Carolina Heart Institute at ECU.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 4:34 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Standardized testing for public school students concluded last month, but the debate about the state's accountability system continues.
Published: Thursday, July 17th, 2014 @ 12:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Paul Gottfried's recent Pope Center essay The Academy Now and Then raises important issues regarding whether today's campus permits the expression of unpopular ideas. He argues that campus life was far more open when he began his academic career in the 1960s than it is in today's PC-dominated world.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 10:29 am
By: John William Pope Center
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At first glance, Fayetteville State University may seem like a run-of-the-mill institution. Out of the sixteen UNC system schools, FSU's enrollment ranks twelfth, and among the system's five historically black schools, it ranks third. The average SAT score for entering freshmen (844) is the...
Published: Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 @ 8:08 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Two hundred years ago, long before the days of parades with helium filled balloons, marathon football games and "Black Friday," a brave group of settlers came to North Carolina looking for a better life.
Published: Thursday, November 28th, 2013 @ 1:09 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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This year, a plan for a "gender-neutral" housing complex at UNC-Chapel Hill drew lots of attention, first from the state legislature, and then from the university system's governing body, the UNC Board of Governors. The plan was intended to permit gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, or transgendered...
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 @ 7:43 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The historian Polybius famously observed that empires deteriorate either internally or from without.
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2013 @ 8:34 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Liberal protesters at the General Assembly have been claiming they are acting in the name of morality, but a new Civitas study shows the role played by money – more than $100 million in state funds.
Published: Monday, July 8th, 2013 @ 10:06 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Everyone knows a little about Chicago, MIT, and Harvard, but few know about the country's tribal colleges. They are fairly new; Congress authorized and funded them in 1978; most of today's thirty-five colleges got their start even more recently.
Published: Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 @ 7:11 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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It is time to open up North Carolina’s government operations to the public view. The North Carolina legislature has a great opportunity this year to make state and local governments more ethical and efficient.
Published: Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 3:48 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The mission statement of Dix306.org, a lobbying group pushing to preserve a lease struck in December between the Perdue administration and the city of Raleigh, reads...
Published: Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 11:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Beaufort County Limited Voting Method Committee
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 @ 8:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's been weeks since children developed their wish lists, and they are about to find out if Santa has brought what they asked for. We here at the Pope Center have put together our own wish list...
Published: Friday, February 22nd, 2013 @ 7:09 am
By: Duke Cheston
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When does a crisis become the status quo? It's been 57 years since the landmark study "Why Johnny Can't Read" sounded a clarion call to correct the failures of our poor public education system.
Published: Thursday, February 7th, 2013 @ 2:49 pm
By: Jay Schalin
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In 1948, the University of Chicago Press published one of the foundational texts of the modern conservative movement: Ideas Have Consequences.
Published: Thursday, January 24th, 2013 @ 6:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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