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The Southeast Crescent Regional Commission (SCRC) – a federal-state partnership that promotes and encourages economic development in certain southeastern states – has announced $4,466,111 in available funding for 69 North Carolina counties to revitalize and transform communities
Published: Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023 @ 2:32 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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RALEIGH: Governor Roy Cooper announced North Carolina boards and commissions appointments today.
Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 @ 12:04 pm
By: Governor's Office
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With the Biden administration’s announcement this week that it would continue the moratorium on student loan payments through the beginning of next year and will forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt per student, student loan forgiveness is at the top of the current political agenda.
Published: Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Beaufort County Community College TRiO Student Support Services students celebrated National TRiO Day 2022 with an “Operation Care – Thinking of You” service project.
Published: Sunday, March 13th, 2022 @ 8:10 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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ECU introduces K-12 students to benefits of college education
Published: Tuesday, April 27th, 2021 @ 4:06 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Today, President Joe Biden named several key hires to the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Published: Saturday, February 20th, 2021 @ 9:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In North Carolina, the golden ticket for resident college hopefuls is $1,000 yearly tuition at a handful of public universities.
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 @ 3:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Strives to Meet Goal of 2 Million Residents with a High-Quality Postsecondary Degree or Credential by 2030
Published: Thursday, February 27th, 2020 @ 8:57 am
By: Governor's Office
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Just east of Asheville, Black Mountain College (BMC) was founded in 1933 and survived for 24 years until closing due to funding issues and a lack of students.
Published: Wednesday, April 17th, 2019 @ 6:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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East Carolina University is participating in a new effort in which 130 public universities and systems will work together to increase college access, close the achievement gap, and award hundreds of thousands more degrees by 2025
Published: Wednesday, November 21st, 2018 @ 12:27 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The University of North Carolina is in good shape, but the 17-school system is ever in need of improvement
Published: Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 @ 3:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Governor Roy Cooper visited Walter M. Williams High School in Alamance County today to announce a $2 million grant to support college and career readiness programs in middle and high schools through Communities In Schools of North Carolina
Published: Thursday, November 9th, 2017 @ 6:37 pm
By: Governor's Office
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It’s the idea that just won’t go away: free college tuition. Yesterday Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York proposed providing free tuition for low and middle income students at state colleges and universities
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2017 @ 8:50 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Anyone watching the higher education landscape these days can't help but note the proliferation of articles calling for free tuition. President Obama's January 2015 proposal to make the first two years of community college free spawned much of this discussion. While the proposal stalled, it did...
Published: Saturday, April 16th, 2016 @ 1:46 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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On a visit to his high school alma mater, Governor Pat McCrory announced his proposal to increase average teacher pay in North Carolina to more than $50,000 for the first time in state history by providing an average 5 percent pay increase
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2016 @ 1:04 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Two years ago I attended a student debate at North Carolina Central University, one of the state's five public historically black colleges and universities
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2016 @ 12:41 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The search for the next University of North Carolina system president has finally concluded.
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2015 @ 8:46 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Richard Burr (R-NC) applauded the UNC Board of Governors for electing former United States Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings as the next UNC System President.
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 4:06 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Higher education has already become an important issue in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary race. It should receive considerable attention in the first primary date, scheduled for October 13 on CNN.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2015 @ 9:47 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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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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Major donors like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Lumina Foundation dominate higher education philanthropy today. Most are aware of the Gates Foundation's roots in Bill's vast wealth, but the story of how Lumina came to be is more complicated.
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015 @ 3:36 am
By: John William Pope Center
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