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The Beaufort Promise Scholarship has helped to increase the number of new healthcare technicians locally and offered the opportunity for new credentials to existing workers, as on display through the large class of program graduates.
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 10:49 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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Beaufort County Community College will continue its popular Beaufort Promise Scholarship Program for at least the next three academic years (2023-24 through 2025-26).
Published: Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 @ 4:35 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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Enrollment at Beaufort County Community College has surged since the college announced its Beaufort Promise program to cover tuition and fees through 2023.
Published: Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 @ 9:41 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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For the fall 2016 graduation ceremonies, East Carolina University's College of Engineering and Technology lived up to the university's promise: Tomorrow starts here
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2017 @ 12:44 pm
By: ECU News Services
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During her primary fight with Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton argued that his "free college" promise went too far. Now, however, Clinton has come out with a plan to make public colleges and universities free for families who earn less than $125,000 annually.
Published: Sunday, October 23rd, 2016 @ 11:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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In his State of the Union address, President Obama pitched his plan for making two years of community college as "free and universal in America as high school is today." He thinks it would be a great thing. But at the community college where I taught English from 2007 to 2010, Georgia Perimeter...
Published: Sunday, February 22nd, 2015 @ 2:37 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The federal proposal that the president is calling "America's College Promise" has inspired fanfare and controversy that go beyond President Obama's decision earlier this week not to interfere with so-called 529 savings plans.
Published: Saturday, January 31st, 2015 @ 10:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The new federal proposal that the president is calling "America's College Promise" is short on details but has inspired much commentary.
Published: Tuesday, January 20th, 2015 @ 9:35 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A day after President Obama unexpectedly unveiled a plan offering more than $34 billion in subsidies for community college tuition to millions of Americans, U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th District, chastened the president for his "bad habit" of creating programs without funding mechanisms.
Published: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 @ 4:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The September issue of Money (a Time, Inc. publication) featured an article titled "Busting the 5 Myths of College Costs" by Penelope Wang. It claimed that many of the assumptions that parents hold on how to reduce the cost of college are outdated or wrong. Wang promised to give the...
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2013 @ 12:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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In late May, my husband and I welcomed our first child, Edward James Robinson. We're calling him Ned. After the first few weeks of sleepless nights and a very steep learning curve, the hospital bills came. They're only the first of many expenses involved in raising a child - and they're chump...
Published: Monday, September 2nd, 2013 @ 12:42 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In a 2009 Pope Center article, Professor Robert Blumenthal poses several questions to parents and prospective college students: "Does the institution [you're considering] have sufficient financial resources to deliver the education it promises? Does it have sufficient operating funds to provide...
Published: Monday, August 26th, 2013 @ 11:03 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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An information session has been scheduled for March 11 at Beaufort County Community College for high school students, their parents and members of the public interested in learning more about Career and College Promise.
Published: Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 @ 1:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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