A new bipartisan bill would restore master's degree and doctoral pay for some public school teachers in the state.
Published: Saturday, February 9th, 2019 @ 1:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
East Carolina University's online bachelor's and master's degree programs have been recognized among the nation's best by U.S. News & World Report
Published: Saturday, January 14th, 2017 @ 12:01 am
By: ECU News Services
|
An unlikely champion of more university oversight emerged at a recent University of North Carolina system Board of Governors [BOG] meeting
Published: Monday, November 14th, 2016 @ 12:11 pm
By: John William Pope Center
|
For three years now, I've been defending the decision of the North Carolina General Assembly to end the longstanding practice of giving public-school teachers automatic pay boosts if they possess or obtain graduate degrees.
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 1:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
The family of a Pitt County man who died of cancer a few months before completing his bachelor's degree has been awarded a posthumous degree from East Carolina University.
Published: Wednesday, May 27th, 2015 @ 10:35 pm
By: ECU News Services
|
Fifty-one graduates of Beaufort County Community College’s Associate Degree Nursing program received their nursing school pins Thursday, May 14, in a ceremony, which is a traditional rite of passage for nursing school graduates across the country.
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2015 @ 8:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
|
U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced legislation to ensure that veterans, students serving in the armed forces, and their qualifying dependents, can take full advantage of the federal education benefits they have earned for themselves and their families.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2015 @ 12:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|
Each year, UNC officials pitch new degree programs to the system's Board of Governors. More often than not, the programs are approved, even though a casual observer - especially a non-academic - might snicker or guffaw upon hearing some of their descriptions.
Published: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015 @ 5:29 pm
By: John William Pope Center
|
Beaufort County Early College High School will hold an Open House at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in the Multi-Purpose Room of Building 10 on the Beaufort County Community College campus.
Published: Thursday, February 5th, 2015 @ 9:13 pm
By: Chris Downey
|
East Carolina University is joining an American Council on Education alternative credit consortium as part of an initiative to create a more flexible pathway toward a college degree for millions of nontraditional learners.
Published: Sunday, January 4th, 2015 @ 11:59 am
By: ECU News Services
|
Perhaps you have noticed that many jobs requiring only basic skills and a cooperative attitude are now walled off to Americans who don't possess a college degree.
Published: Sunday, December 28th, 2014 @ 12:55 pm
By: John William Pope Center
|
On the whole, U.S. colleges and universities don't get everything right. They're overpriced, operationally hidebound, and ideologically stagnant. But American higher education does some things very well-well enough that students from around the world still choose to come to the United States to...
Published: Saturday, December 13th, 2014 @ 8:43 pm
By: John William Pope Center
|
In most states, community colleges offer only associate degrees in nursing, which require two to three years of education.
Published: Saturday, December 13th, 2014 @ 11:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
The 1971 law reorganizing the University of North Carolina declared that the UNC system should "encourage an economical use of the state's resources" to further the state's constitutional mission of providing public higher education.
Published: Sunday, November 23rd, 2014 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
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
|
A persistent question about American higher education is what explains the apparent increase in demand for workers who have college credentials. It could be due to rising skill requirements for jobs, implying that the economy needs a larger number of people who have been through college...
Published: Monday, September 29th, 2014 @ 12:28 pm
By: John William Pope Center
|
The 1971 law reorganizing the University of North Carolina declared that the UNC system should "encourage an economical use of the state's resources" to further the state's constitutional mission of providing public higher education.
Published: Monday, September 22nd, 2014 @ 9:29 pm
By: John William Pope Center
|
I have had the advantage of having degrees in both biology and English. I know how each is taught, and the requirements of each.
Published: Friday, August 29th, 2014 @ 11:02 pm
By: John William Pope Center
|
Librarians don’t actually push book-laden carts or memorize the Dewey Decimal System.
Published: Tuesday, July 29th, 2014 @ 5:42 pm
By: John William Pope Center
|
There is a forgotten group of college students. These are the students who start out at a community college, leave it to earn a bachelor's degree, but drop out along the way.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 7:05 pm
By: John William Pope Center
|
Jeanne Martin, an instructor in the Associate Degree Nursing Program at Beaufort County Community College, who served as President of the Faculty Senate at BCCC for the 2013-2014 Academic Year will serve a second year as the organization's President in the 2014-2015 Academic Year.
Published: Saturday, July 19th, 2014 @ 1:06 am
By: Christopher Maye
|