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Locke produces award-winning short film on the 1898 Wilmington Coup
Published: Saturday, December 23rd, 2023 @ 3:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor McCrory Signs Legislation to Encourage Entrepreneurship and Innovation Through CrowdfundingGovernor Pat McCrory was joined by entrepreneurs, educators and elected officials today as he signed legislation to promote Crowdfunding in North Carolina at a local start-up on the Centennial Campus at North Carolina State University
Published: Tuesday, July 26th, 2016 @ 3:39 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Hundreds of supporters of the $2 billion Connect NC bond referendum on the March 15 ballot gathered Tuesday on N.C. State University’s Centennial Campus to kick off a campaign they say is essential for a growing North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory will be in Raleigh and Kinston tomorrow to sign the Connect NC Bond Act into law. The legislation will allow the people of North Carolina to vote on a $2 billion bond package to support investments in education, parks, National Guard facilities, and water and sewer...
Published: Wednesday, October 21st, 2015 @ 3:44 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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To hear some policymakers talk, one would think colleges and universities exist mainly to enhance economic growth rather than to educate.
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 10:17 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Higher education in the United States has long been geared toward aggrandizement. It seems like every president or chancellor wants to leave his or her stamp on his or her campus with a new building.
Published: Sunday, June 21st, 2015 @ 9:04 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The UNC Board of Governors voted April 10 to approve East Carolina University's request to designate four parcels of property it owns as a millennial campus-sites where the university can collaborate with private companies to commercialize research discoveries and offer advanced training to...
Published: Thursday, April 16th, 2015 @ 10:56 pm
By: ECU News Services
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East Carolina University is moving ahead with plans to rehabilitate a seven-block area in Greenville's warehouse district as a millennial campus - a site where the university can collaborate with private companies to commercialize research discoveries and offer advanced training to benefit the...
Published: Sunday, March 15th, 2015 @ 1:17 am
By: ECU News Services
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The number of outlandish classes offered by colleges and universities has surged in recent years. Faculty use their control of curricula to create whimsical and provocatively titled courses - courses designed to attract more students to cash-hungry departments, satisfy the narrow academic...
Published: Friday, June 13th, 2014 @ 11:51 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Sometimes our problems loom so large and seem so complex we can easily be disheartened or depressed about our state's future. And once sworn-in, our elected officials are constantly sworn at, like it is some kind of sport.
Published: Thursday, January 16th, 2014 @ 6:43 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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An agreement between the North Carolina Office of Information Technology Services and NC State University will provide students with real-world learning opportunities and allow state government to develop a pipeline of talent for its IT operations.
Published: Sunday, November 10th, 2013 @ 6:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The mission statement of Dix306.org, a lobbying group pushing to preserve a lease struck in December between the Perdue administration and the city of Raleigh, reads...
Published: Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 11:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democrats' last minute sweetheart deal to hand over Dix hospital property to the city of Raleigh is collapsing, and boys are those lefties upset.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 @ 9:46 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The new James B. Hunt Library at North Carolina State on the new Centennial Campus has been heralded as one of the finest college libraries in the nation -- "the plugged-in library of the future," according to one Scientific American blogger.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 9:02 pm
By: Jay Schalin
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Governor Perdue was wrong on several levels to have committed the state to an agreement over the Dorothea Dix property, but so is the legislature wrong in reneging on the deal.
Published: Monday, March 25th, 2013 @ 7:57 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The wild swings in North Carolina's higher education budget may have come to a halt. Last year, the University of North Carolina system absorbed roughly $400 million in cuts -- a few years before that, higher ed was getting annual increases of 5 percent and more.
Published: Monday, August 13th, 2012 @ 12:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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