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A new scholarship will help more North Carolina families attend university and offer them debt-free community college.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 @ 2:50 pm
By: Attila Nemecz
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Contained within the Democrats’ massive $3.5 trillion federal reconciliation bill is a provision that would allow illegal immigrants to receive free community college tuition.
Published: Thursday, December 9th, 2021 @ 7:19 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Earlier this year Governor Cooper toured Linamar Corporation, a precision machining and assembly company located outside Asheville, North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018 @ 3:44 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Roy Cooper today highlighted his proposed NC GROW (Getting Ready for Opportunities in the Workforce) Scholarship to help make North Carolina a Top 10 Educated state by 2025. Starting next year, good students who graduated high school with a 2.0 GPA or higher would get free tuition to any NC
Published: Friday, March 24th, 2017 @ 3:36 am
By: Governor's Office
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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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A few weeks ago, I wrote about why I thought President Obama's Community College Proposal was a bad idea. His plan to provide up to two years of free tuition to community college students who maintained a 2.5 G.P.A would cost $6 billion a year, is ill conceived, and based on fallacious assumptions.
Published: Sunday, April 19th, 2015 @ 1:00 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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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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Before all of you education industry zealots consider that I don't care about "The Children" getting more free education, or something as equally ridiculous, just hear me out on this one: Free Community College for everyone is an incredibly bad idea.
Published: Friday, February 20th, 2015 @ 2:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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BarryO has decided he wants to give everybody a free ride through community college. Heck. His radical overhaul of healthcare has worked *so well.* Why not meddle here?
Published: Saturday, January 31st, 2015 @ 2:39 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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President Obama is proposing that two years of community college education be provided by federal and state governments free to students who are enrolled at least half time and maintain a 2.5 GPA.
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2015 @ 6:28 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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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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New courses to help potential and existing business owners will be available online and free of charge through Beaufort County Community College beginning Jan. 1, 2015.
Published: Wednesday, December 17th, 2014 @ 3:08 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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focus on human rights will bring together musicians from around the world to perform in a free concert at Beaufort County Community College at noon on Thursday, Sept. 18, outside the lower level of Building 5.
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 5:39 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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