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Each year, the Golden LEAF Scholarship is awarded to 215 students who reside in a qualifying rural and economically distressed North Carolina County.
Published: Tuesday, January 17th, 2023 @ 11:34 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Edgecombe Early College High School Scholar Teachers Program is Training High School Students to Become Edgecombe County Teachers Upon College Graduation
Published: Saturday, September 24th, 2022 @ 11:05 am
By: Governor's Office
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The Board of Directors established the Golden LEAF Scholarship Program as a workforce strategy to broaden educational opportunities for students from rural counties.
Published: Friday, December 24th, 2021 @ 2:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Golden LEAF Foundation awards funds to provide scholarships for both high school and community college transfers entering a four-year college or university in North Carolina as well as for rural students attending community college in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2021 @ 11:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A sense of urgency has taken hold of higher education leaders nationwide. Reports of declining community college graduation rates and the lack of skilled workers have led policymakers and college leaders to sound the alarm
Published: Friday, November 22nd, 2019 @ 2:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As we near the end of President Trump’s third year in office, it’s worth looking back at some of the health care policies enacted by this administration so far.
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 @ 12:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Policy experts and lawmakers point to Senate Bill 609, K-12 Scholarship Changes, as a noteworthy way to advance school choice in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, June 14th, 2019 @ 6:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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My first article about how man creates these boundaries of time and location attracted such little attention that I almost threw this second edition in the trash bin.
Published: Tuesday, November 1st, 2016 @ 3:18 am
By: Bobby Tony
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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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The higher education establishment is growing worried about privatization. Should the rest of us do the same
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 10:10 am
By: John William Pope Center
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American higher education is a grand mess. But there is purpose in the apparent chaos of public universities; they are designed to protect free inquiry by equal citizens into the wide universe of subjects that concern a growing and vibrant country.
Published: Sunday, June 7th, 2015 @ 1:19 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Eduardo Porter, who writes "The Economic Scene" for the New York Times, says our country's higher education system is in crisis and that he has a solution.
Published: Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 @ 9:20 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 12:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When Republicans won their legislative majorities in 2010 and expanded them in 2012, they ran on a platform of fiscal conservatism and reform.
Published: Thursday, September 4th, 2014 @ 5:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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BCCC students and faculty have been away from campus this week enjoying Spring Break while staff members have taken the opportunity to catch up on their work while the campus is less busy than usual.
Published: Monday, April 28th, 2014 @ 1:00 am
By: Barbara Tansey
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Scott Ralls, president of the North Carolina Community College System, says he noticed a problem with remedial education in the state's community...
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 9:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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College graduation rates—particularly four-year rates— are low, both nationwide and in the UNC system. So many factors contribute to the low rates (students’ poor preparation, their need to earn money by working, lack of interest, schools’ failure to provide the right...
Published: Monday, April 29th, 2013 @ 6:51 pm
By: Jenna Ashley Robinson
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That America needs a better-educated workforce has become today's honored wisdom, so what better measurement of progress than rising college graduation rates?
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2013 @ 10:31 pm
By: Robert Weissberg
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The following article was originally written and distributed in January 2006.
Published: Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 @ 12:47 am
By: Fern Shubert
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