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On Friday, the British police arrested Tommy Robinson, founder and former leader of the English Defence League, a far-right anti-Islam group
Published: Sunday, June 3rd, 2018 @ 2:04 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Like just about every university and college these days, mine — N.C. State University — spends millions each year on a sprawling bureaucracy advocating racial, gender, and other types of “cultural” diversity
Published: Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 @ 1:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper today signed Executive Order No. 25 to create jobs and expand economic opportunity for historically underutilized businesses in North Carolina
Published: Sunday, November 5th, 2017 @ 9:58 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Gov. Roy Cooper today signed a proclamation declaring September 15 - October 15, 2017 Hispanic Heritage Month in North Carolina
Published: Monday, October 9th, 2017 @ 9:08 am
By: Governor's Office
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So, I visited Berkeley last night. And it was terrific.
Published: Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 @ 8:19 am
By: Daily Wire
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Successfully transitioning from the military to the university is the focus of a new grant-funded program for student veterans at East Carolina University
Published: Monday, September 11th, 2017 @ 3:03 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Everyone seems to be talking about fake news these days. Enabled by social media, its originators deal in hoaxes and disinformation
Published: Wednesday, April 26th, 2017 @ 9:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the United States refuses to act with any conviction, this is what we get.
Published: Monday, January 2nd, 2017 @ 3:19 am
By: Ryan Case
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In his new video "Just Say 'Merry Christmas,'" Dennis Prager argues that efforts to replace "Merry Christmas" with "Happy Holidays" are misguided. In the name of "inclusivity," he says, we are excluding the roughly 90 percent of Americans who celebrate Christmas
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 11:26 am
By: John William Pope Center
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At the school where I taught for almost 35 years, the University of Wisconsin—Madison, campus leaders continue their rush to respond to the BlackOut demands put forth by black student leaders last spring
Published: Thursday, December 15th, 2016 @ 7:46 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The number of non-academic administrators at colleges and universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, far outpacing the growth in students and faculty
Published: Wednesday, December 14th, 2016 @ 3:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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It took less than a week into the 2016-2017 academic year for several outrageous stories to surface on college campuses.
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 11:11 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In 2006, I clipped a "Non Sequitur" cartoon that captured perfectly the mystique that surrounds our nation's universities
Published: Friday, October 28th, 2016 @ 10:16 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) advises trustees and alumni about higher education issues, identifies “oases of [educational] excellence,” and examines graduation requirements at various colleges to answer the question “What Will They Learn?”
Published: Monday, June 13th, 2016 @ 7:47 am
By: John William Pope Center
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As medieval Europeans placed their hope for salvation in the church and donated vast sums for the construction of splendidly ornate cathedrals, many modern Americans place their hope for a future better world in higher education and give accordingly
Published: Sunday, February 14th, 2016 @ 12:09 am
By: Christopher Maye
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According to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro catalog, the course "ELC 381, The Institution of Education" is "required of students seeking teacher licensure." Unfortunately, the course often goes far beyond what is politically acceptable for an education course at a public university.
Published: Friday, January 15th, 2016 @ 3:25 am
By: John William Pope Center
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This phenomenon has been spreading across the country - from campus to campus - whipping up a liberal frenzy just in time for election season. The developments have me drawing comparisons to George Orwell's classic "Animal Farm''.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 11:49 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Lately, tenure has come under heavy criticism, particularly from conservatives who maintain that it protects incompetent, ignorant, or indifferent teachers to the detriment of students
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 1:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2015 @ 5:56 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The average annual income in North Carolina is just over $40,000. But in September, senior-level bureaucrats in the University of North Carolina system's General Administration — who take home six-figure salaries — said they needed raises, and they got them. The system's Board of...
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2015 @ 6:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The average annual income in North Carolina is just over $40,000. But senior-level bureaucrats in the University of North Carolina system's General Administration (GA)-who take home six-figure salaries-say they need a raise. This Friday, the system's Board of Governors will vote on a proposed...
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 5:24 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The Common Core Standards is a private and federal initiative to reform public education into one that spits out workers, not thinkers
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 11:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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If one is looking for clues regarding what universities think a college education should be about, one obvious place to look is their freshman summer reading programs
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 4:35 am
By: John William Pope Center
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There was a time when one's initiation into the fraternity of journalism included a profound indoctrination into the value of the First Amendment to the survival of our Republic.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 11:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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When Columbia University's Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board complained a few weeks ago that "many texts in the Western canon [contain] triggering and offensive material that marginalizes student identities," I thought of China, whose education minister vowed to ban...
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 10:16 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Enrollment in the liberal arts and humanities continues to sink, particularly in languages and literature. At Harvard, for example, almost 60 percent of the students who start in the humanities switch disciplines by the end of their second year.
Published: Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 @ 10:17 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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It's a pleasure to announce that Jenna A. Robinson, currently director of outreach for the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, is about to become our new president. I am retiring, and my last day will be Friday, Feb. 13. I am joining the board of the Pope Center as vice-chairman.
Published: Thursday, February 12th, 2015 @ 4:16 am
By: John William Pope Center
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European civilization collapsed in the centuries following the fall of Rome. Barbarian hordes overran much of the continent. The vibrant intellectual life of Greece and Rome was no more; learning and literacy plummeted between the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas.
Published: Thursday, January 29th, 2015 @ 8:34 am
By: John William Pope Center
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In July, I wrote about the pressure that University of Wisconsin officials have been exerting on the faculty for greater "equity" on campus.
Published: Friday, December 19th, 2014 @ 1:40 am
By: John William Pope Center
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