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American college students have taken to saying that they need "safe spaces" on campus. They really don't, since all they're after is "safety" from ideas they dislike
Published: Thursday, November 24th, 2016 @ 10:02 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Many experts believe that the United States is facing a student loan crisis. Total student loan debt now exceeds $1.3 billion-more than total credit card debt for the country
Published: Tuesday, November 8th, 2016 @ 8:30 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Higher education reformers have long argued that colleges' admissions selectivity reveals little about their educational quality and how well they prepare students for the workforce and civic life
Published: Monday, October 24th, 2016 @ 10:13 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Last month I looked at Hillary Clinton’s higher education proposals in this Clarion Call, and found nothing to praise in them. They merely deepen the already ruinous federal involvement in subsidizing college.
Published: Saturday, August 6th, 2016 @ 11:13 am
By: John William Pope Center
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In the midst of Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe and the United States, and despite Americans' apprehension over large numbers of Muslim refugees being resettled in American cities and towns, the Obama administration is doling out taxpayer money to refugees to help them start their own businesses
Published: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016 @ 4:06 am
By: Jim Kouri
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North Carolina's public university system is a multi-billion-dollar organization that impacts virtually every region of North Carolina-socially and economically
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 6:30 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Even before she assumes control of the University of North Carolina system, former Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has become a lightening rod for attacks by faculty, students, and activists on the left
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A combination of factors has resulted in a dip in full-time enrollment at Beaufort County Community College for Fall 2015, but the news isn't all bad
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2015 @ 2:15 am
By: Barbara Tansey
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Student loan debt in North Carolina is not a good news-bad news story. It is a bad news-worse news story. Student debt, with a couple of exceptions, has been rising across the board at University of North Carolina schools, both in the percentage of students who need loans and the amount of their...
Published: Friday, September 11th, 2015 @ 2:05 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Richard Cornuelle, the Indianapolis libertarian activist who started United Student Aid Funds (USAF), had a fight on his hands. His organization, whose downfall led ultimately to the creation of today's college-access giant known as the Lumina Foundation, was created with the goal of competing...
Published: Thursday, April 16th, 2015 @ 7:22 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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East Carolina University has been named the No. 1 "Best Bang for the Buck" among colleges and universities in the Southeast in a new report that ranks universities on outcomes and the degree of opportunity afforded students.
Published: Monday, March 23rd, 2015 @ 6:53 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Frustration with the rising cost of health care gave politicians the ammo they needed to hang this ObamaCare monstrosity around our necks.
Published: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 @ 6:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The University of North Carolina is proposing to charge lower tuition to out-of-state students who live close to the state border. The UNC Board of Governors will consider the proposal, which is called "border tuition," at its January meeting.
Published: Friday, January 2nd, 2015 @ 8:10 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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Not all students can obtain federal loans for college because some community colleges do not participate in the federal lending program.
Published: Tuesday, September 16th, 2014 @ 6:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Funds from the federal government for college flow liberally, but there are limits.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 1:09 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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Until about five years ago, few people said much about America's federal student loan system. There was no talk of a "crisis," and discussions about change were pretty much limited to tinkering around the edges.
Published: Tuesday, December 31st, 2013 @ 1:48 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Big things were anticipated for higher education reform in 2013 - but the sizzle turned to fizzle in many cases. Landmark court decisions got pushed off for another year, bubbles didn't quite burst, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) did not take over vast swaths of the higher education...
Published: Saturday, December 28th, 2013 @ 1:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Student loan defaults continue to cause problems in this country. As recently as 2010, nearly 375,000 students defaulted within two years of beginning repayment. One idea put forward to address the issue involves assigning more responsibility for defaults to colleges and universities themselves...
Published: Sunday, December 8th, 2013 @ 2:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It often appears as if the country’s six regional accrediting agencies are the federal overseers of all things higher education. It’s time to put an end to their expansive role; doing so would very likely set off a great chain of positive reform. This is especially important now, as Congress is...
Published: Saturday, November 23rd, 2013 @ 2:11 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Students are defaulting on their college loans at worryingly high rates. Many observers of higher education believe that one reason for the defaults is that those most...
Published: Thursday, August 8th, 2013 @ 3:14 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A 1997 bill that exempted "payday lenders" from state usury laws was allowed to sunset in 2001, and the last storefront lenders were shut down in 2005.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 @ 1:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The just-completed legislative short session closes out the first biennium in nearly 100 years that Republicans comprised majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly.
Published: Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 @ 7:25 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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