Last month, PEN America, the U.S. branch of an international organization, published a strong defense of free speech on college campuses
Published: Thursday, November 17th, 2016 @ 12:45 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Last month, just before the new academic year began, the University of Chicago’s dean of students, John Ellison, sent a letter (reproduced in this piece) to all incoming students
Published: Thursday, November 3rd, 2016 @ 2:14 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Hyper-aggressive federal officials have taken the vague language in Title IX of the 1972 Education Act Amendments and treated it as if it gave them plenary authority to control anything on a college campus having in any way to do with sexual misbehavior
Published: Saturday, August 27th, 2016 @ 9:32 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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College officials should be praised when they curtail wasteful spending, but when they cut the budget by eliminating core educational programs, they deserve public scorn
Published: Monday, August 22nd, 2016 @ 11:31 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Businesses sometimes charge different customers different prices as a way to maximize revenue
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2016 @ 6:17 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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For the last several years, Big Labor has pushed for mandated higher pay for workers, rallying around the slogan "Fight for Fifteen!"
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2016 @ 1:54 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Just how bad colleges have become when it comes to free speech and toleration for anyone who disagrees with those who hold power cannot be underestimated
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2016 @ 7:42 am
By: John William Pope Center
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America's national obsession with raising our "educational attainment" level leads politicians and bureaucrats to focus on the silliest of things. Lately, that has been college accreditation.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:16 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Lately, tenure has come under heavy criticism, particularly from conservatives who maintain that it protects incompetent, ignorant, or indifferent teachers to the detriment of students
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 1:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Supreme Court held, in the 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger, that it is permissible for universities to give some students preference in admission on the basis of their race. That decision was a serious mistake and it is time to correct it.
Published: Friday, September 18th, 2015 @ 3:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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They say "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions," but that doesn't really describe the whole mechanism. The reason that good intentions can cause so many problems is because they lead to actions with unintended consequences.
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015 @ 3:46 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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One day, Bill Bennett may be best remembered for saying (in 1987, while he was President Reagan's education secretary) that government student aid was largely responsible for the fact that the cost of going to college kept rising. What is called the "Bennett Hypothesis" has been heavily debated
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 10:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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About 25 years ago, American higher education was swept up in the identity studies fad. A great many colleges and universities created courses, departments, degree programs, and related administrative posts in Women's Studies, African-American Studies, Latina/o Studies, Queer Studies, and others.
Published: Sunday, April 19th, 2015 @ 2:17 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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For as long as I've been working in the higher education policy world, people have been talking about the prospects for a breakout for distance learning (i.e., online courses) and how that would transform higher education.
Published: Thursday, March 26th, 2015 @ 10:36 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Duke Energy and Beaufort County Community College today announced a $248,302 investment from the Duke Energy Foundation to upgrade the equipment used in the Welding Technology Program at BCCC.
Published: Wednesday, February 4th, 2015 @ 1:40 am
By: Chris Downey
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Last year, I was one of the first to report that the 2012-13 community college remediation rate for recent graduates of North Carolina high schools was 63 percent. Thanks to the outstanding staff at the N.C. Community College System office in Raleigh, I have obtained the 2013-14 statewide rate.
Published: Saturday, December 6th, 2014 @ 11:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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BCCC has welcomed middle grades students from across Beaufort County during the past two weeks. Under the direction of Vice President of Student Services Rick Anderson and his team, the county's eighth grade students toured BCCC's nursing, cosmetology, agribusiness technology programs automotive...
Published: Monday, November 17th, 2014 @ 9:54 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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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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BCCC's Planning Committee has this week made available to our campus community the new Strategic Directions that were recently approved by the Board of Trustees.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 5:58 pm
By: Barbara Tansey
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Back in the early 1990s, while I was in the middle of a long business career, I recall reading that the University of Pennsylvania had decided to add an unusual essay requirement for their undergraduate applicants.
Published: Monday, November 10th, 2014 @ 6:39 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Due to demand, Beaufort County Community College has extended registration for Spring Semester 2015 which is scheduled to begin Wednesday, Jan. 7, college officials announced this week.
Published: Saturday, November 8th, 2014 @ 10:18 am
By: Judy Jennette
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Applications are now being accepted for the Basic Law Enforcement Training Day Academy at Beaufort County Community College that will begin in January, college officials announced this week.
Published: Friday, September 5th, 2014 @ 12:06 am
By: Judy Jennette
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Ever since the obstreperous Occupy Wall Street protests of 2011, Americans have been getting an earful about the alleged crisis of student loan debt.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 12:12 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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I hope everyone had a nice and safe Fourth of July holiday, despite the appearance of Hurricane Arthur. This week, as many of us return to our offices, we continue the task of preparing for a new semester at Beaufort County Community College.
Published: Sunday, July 13th, 2014 @ 11:08 am
By: Barbara Tansey
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About 200 incoming Beaufort County Community College students attended New Student Orientation sessions on Tuesday, June 24, where they met college officials, learned about student organizations and activities and had the chance to register for Fall Semester 2014 classes.
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 @ 9:36 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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Technological changes have a way of creating new possibilities, but also new problems. Cell phones have evolved to the point where they can be used to make excellent audio and visual reproductions of events. That can be beneficial, as for example when cell phone video can prove whether a person...
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 3:30 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Candidates facing primary challenges in N.C. Senate, N.C. House of Representatives, county commissioner and Beaufort County sheriff's races have been invited to Beaufort County Community College to meet with college officials to learn about issues facing the college in the coming year.
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 5:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Classes in a new Certified Production Technician program at Beaufort County Community College are scheduled to begin Monday, Jan. 27, college officials announced this week.
Published: Monday, January 6th, 2014 @ 9:28 am
By: Anna Deatherage
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Traditionally, college students, whether at the community college level or at four-year universities, have been expected to earn a prescribed number of credit hours by attending 16-week courses over multiple semesters. Students' post-graduation "competency" is indicated by the fact that they...
Published: Friday, December 27th, 2013 @ 10:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Today an employer at a minimum wants [graduates with] job-related skills or training, plus critical thinking and communication abilities," wrote Champion Mitchell, a member of the University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors, in a recent Pope Center featured. Mitchell, a former...
Published: Monday, December 16th, 2013 @ 3:59 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Classes in a new Certified Production Technician program at Beaufort County Community College are scheduled to begin Monday, Jan. 27, college officials announced this week.
Published: Saturday, December 7th, 2013 @ 10:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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With a few notable exceptions, government agencies in North Carolina do not expect a major hit from Obamacare mandates in the coming year. But that could change in 2015, when large employer requirements kick in for organizations such as the UNC system, where as many as 10,000 temporary employees...
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2013 @ 8:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Beaufort County Community College is seeking approval to offer course work in the field of Agribusiness Technology, a field that will provide many job opportunities for area residents, college officials announced this week.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 12:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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