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A three-part plan delivers on President Biden’s promise to cancel $10,000 of student debt for low- to middle-income borrowers
Published: Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 @ 10:20 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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In a News & Observer article last week, a faculty member expressed concerns about UNC-Chapel Hill being “overwhelmingly liberal.”
Published: Sunday, May 6th, 2018 @ 2:10 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The PROSPER Act cuts financial assistance for undergraduates, a move that will hurt many, the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators said Jan. 24
Published: Tuesday, January 30th, 2018 @ 2:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Those are the words of former UNC Law School Dean Judith Wegner who spoke to a reporter from the (Raleigh) News & Observer in May about her opposition to a proposed UNC Board of Governors resolution to prohibit UNC Centers and Institutes from participating in litigation.
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 @ 5:47 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Martin Community College was at increased risk of fraud and its true financial picture was clouded because it lacked proper controls over financial reporting that resulted in a series of accounting errors, based on an audit of the 2014-15 school year by the Office of State Auditor
Published: Monday, September 19th, 2016 @ 11:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Western Carolina University senior Tyann Stubbs juggles two on-campus jobs to help pay her own way through school. And she loves her work
Published: Thursday, August 25th, 2016 @ 1:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The idea of free community college has become a topic of national debate in recent years, highlighted by Tennessee's and Oregon's enactment of statewide plans, and President Obama's advocacy for a nationwide program
Published: Monday, April 11th, 2016 @ 11:09 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Public and private universities in the United States are regulated to the nth degree
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2016 @ 2:23 am
By: John William Pope Center
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As the stock market gyrates and talk of a new recession begins, many universities have reason to worry
Published: Tuesday, February 9th, 2016 @ 9:00 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee recently, I was asked by Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) if, with respect to higher education, I would favor eliminating the U.S. Department of Education.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 3:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about why I thought President Obama's Community College Proposal was a bad idea. His plan to provide up to two years of free tuition to community college students who maintained a 2.5 G.P.A would cost $6 billion a year, is ill conceived, and based on fallacious assumptions.
Published: Sunday, April 19th, 2015 @ 1:00 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina routinely routes tax dollars to private service providers - both directly, in the form of Medicaid reimbursements and college tuition grants, as well as indirectly, in the form of public assistance that recipients spend themselves on food, clothing, shelter, and other goods.
Published: Tuesday, April 14th, 2015 @ 5:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Beaufort County Community College financial aid officers and specialists will be available 9 a.m. to noon at BCCC Saturday, Feb. 28, to help high school seniors and their families complete the necessary paperwork to apply for financial aid to attend college during the 2015-2016 academic year.
Published: Monday, February 2nd, 2015 @ 9:56 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Madam Chair, Ranking Member Hinojosa, and Distinguished Members of this committee, thank you for this opportunity. The Pell grant program faces two serious problems today: its increasing cost to the taxpayer, and its failure to serve students well. The program is too expensive and too few...
Published: Friday, December 6th, 2013 @ 8:10 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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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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In the six years I've been at the Pope Center, I've seen a number of new higher education reform organizations emerge. I view the growing numbers of allies as a sign that higher education reform is an idea whose time has come.
Published: Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 @ 4:36 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Lt. Col. (ret) Kenneth Brown Wheeler, 70, of Greenville and Bath died Thursday, September 12, 2013.
Published: Saturday, September 14th, 2013 @ 8:55 am
By: Announcements
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Last September, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $3.3 million in grants for papers on the subject of federal student aid programs--specifically, how we should "reimagine" student aid. The papers were recently released, but there wasn't anything very imaginative in them.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 8:55 pm
By: George Leef
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