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ECU Faculty Convocation kicks off the academic year
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 @ 2:32 pm
By: ECU News Services
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ECU students taking non-traditional routes to degrees enjoy journey
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2022 @ 12:31 pm
By: ECU News Services
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East Carolina University is sixth in the nation - and No. 1 in North Carolina - in an inaugural ranking of America's Top Online Colleges by Newsweek.
Published: Monday, November 29th, 2021 @ 3:55 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed.
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2020 @ 8:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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American universities are in jeopardy of becoming no better than finishing schools reserved for the rich, Mitch Daniels told an audience at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Published: Thursday, September 26th, 2019 @ 1:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Higher education is the object of aspiration and frustration. A lofty aim that, while promising opportunity, evokes feelings of anxiety from throngs of students neither academically nor financially secure
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2019 @ 4:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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The Innovator's Dilemma theory is based on the premise that incumbent firms in a given market tend to focus on making incremental improvements to existing products and services, rather than on providing new and possibly revolutionary ones
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2016 @ 11:42 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Many in academia bemoan the increasing and overwhelming focus on graduates’ job prospects.
Published: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 @ 9:44 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Bratwurst, Leica cameras, BMW automobiles, Beck's beer, and so on - great German imports to the U.S. Few people realize that our educational system was also imported from Germany. Unlike those fine products, however, the 19th century educational concepts we imported from Germany are not working...
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014 @ 4:51 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Technological change has made online coursework very competitive with the traditional means of teaching. Will it lead to dramatic change in college, or have only a minor impact? Consider the analogy to music.
Published: Sunday, January 5th, 2014 @ 6:31 am
By: John William Pope Center
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There has been tremendous buzz about online higher education in recent years, both from insiders and reformers. Much of it is deserved - obviously, there's a lot of new technology out there with great potential for teaching and learning. But there is also a lot of confusion.
Published: Tuesday, December 24th, 2013 @ 1:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Colleges and universities must adopt College 2020 if they want to remain in the game, says Vance Fried.
Published: Thursday, April 11th, 2013 @ 4:45 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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CollegeWeekLive SPRING (click on Events then event name), the world's largest college fair, will be held March 23 and 24, from 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 @ 10:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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