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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored bipartisan legislation that would improve the GEAR UP federal grant program by giving grant recipients increased flexibility to cater to local students' needs, reducing administrative burdens for grant recipients, and ensuring a more fair.
Published: Sunday, February 10th, 2019 @ 9:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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A federal bill that would require colleges and universities to provide applicants information about the costs and returns of higher education was approved on Monday by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2016 @ 4:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The May 6 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education contains two illuminating and rather unexpected articles
Published: Friday, May 27th, 2016 @ 3:26 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The American higher education establishment suffers from the same problem as ruling establishments everywhere-the inability to look objectively at itself
Published: Thursday, April 14th, 2016 @ 4:23 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Listen to members of the education establishment, and you will hear that not enough people are going to college. Listen to higher education reformers, particularly political conservatives, and you will hear that too many are going to college
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 7:06 am
By: John William Pope Center
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America needs a better-educated work force - but President Obama's plan for "free" community college is not the way to get it.
Published: Wednesday, March 25th, 2015 @ 3:57 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina’s state budget tug-of-war concluded August 1 when the General Assembly passed a $21 billion appropriations bill for fiscal year 2014-15.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 1:20 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Everyone knows a little about Chicago, MIT, and Harvard, but few know about the country's tribal colleges. They are fairly new; Congress authorized and funded them in 1978; most of today's thirty-five colleges got their start even more recently.
Published: Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 @ 7:11 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Many campuses in the UNC system have a hunger for additional students. Administrators want their schools to grow, and, historically, specific state appropriations geared to growth have helped them do it.
Published: Thursday, February 21st, 2013 @ 8:50 am
By: Jenna Ashley Robinson
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