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Pay increases that were awarded last week to seven UNC system chancellors reflect a national trend that tends to inflate salaries for public higher-education administrators, an expert on college affordability said
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2016 @ 8:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While the athletic departments at UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State University, and Appalachian State University prepare to collect extra revenue from the college football bowl games they'll play, a recent study by The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Huffington Post, "Sports At Any Cost," reveals...
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 4:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A barrage of articles in the popular press points out the escalating cost of higher education, rising student debt levels, and the financial struggles many colleges and universities face
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 4:45 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Those of us in the higher ed reform community have argued for years that the traditional college model is going to experience gale force winds of change.
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 @ 9:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Markets tend to work better than government in helping to solve problems. That's the idea economist Richard Vedder promoted to a group of North Carolina lawmakers during a recent visit to Raleigh. Vedder is a professor at Ohio University, director of the Center for College Affordability and...
Published: Tuesday, May 5th, 2015 @ 4:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Speaking at a Raleigh, North Carolina, luncheon on March 10, UNC system president Tom Ross warned of "dangerous" trends in higher education today, especially in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 12:11 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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People of all political persuasions have identified significant problems plaguing the American system of higher education. President Obama outlined some reform ideas during a back-to-school tour of New York and Pennsylvania colleges. But Ohio University economist Richard Vedder, director of the...
Published: Sunday, January 5th, 2014 @ 7:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Tuesday, December 24th, 2013 @ 1:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Every few years, The College Board releases a report entitled Education Pays: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society. It had not done so since 2010, until the latest version. These reports have a perfectly consistent message, namely that college education is all good. It...
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 @ 1:48 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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I am honored to be here today. Alas, my message is not altogether pleasant. Indeed, it may be the intellectual equivalent of having a hemorrhoid operation performed by an unlicensed French physician just returned from a wine-laden lunch.
Published: Saturday, September 21st, 2013 @ 9:47 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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It's been over 30 years since I finished my college education, where I majored in health-related fields. I found satisfaction in pursuing a long-held interest in medical science and saw how degrees in these areas were almost a guarantee of stable employment.
Published: Thursday, June 6th, 2013 @ 8:52 am
By: John William Pope Center
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I hope you had a merry Christmas! Here is Part II of our three-part Christmas policy reform wish list. The first four were posted earlier this week. Now for four more...
Published: Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 @ 12:32 pm
By: Duke Cheston
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The higher education reform world is starting to get crowded. It seems as if every time you blink your eyes, there's a new organization or website focusing on the reform of higher education.
Published: Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 @ 7:02 pm
By: Jay Schalin
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Philanthropic foundations usually do not bear the costs when the ideas they promote turn out to be wrong. Unlike business capital, which can be lost when executives back bad products, foundations lose nothing when their executives back bad ideas.
Published: Friday, February 8th, 2013 @ 5:50 pm
By: Jenna Ashley Robinson
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Two committees headed by UNC officials have signed off on a strategic plan that is better than past plans.
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 1:37 am
By: Jenna Ashley Robinson
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