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
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East Carolina University welcomed its largest number of undergraduate students to campus with the start of the fall semester.
Published: Monday, September 15th, 2014 @ 7:56 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Twenty graduates of Beaufort County Community College's Practical Nursing program received their nursing school pins Wednesday, July 16, in a ceremony, which is a traditional rite of passage for nursing school graduates across the country.
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 @ 7:27 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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My title has two meanings. The first is that, since the 1980s at least, what calls itself literary criticism has consisted largely of abstract theory, less concerned with literature than with itself.
Published: Friday, May 30th, 2014 @ 11:59 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory and First Lady Ann McCrory hosted a group of women graduating from the Durham Rescue Mission's recovery program at the governor's mansion today.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:09 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Dr. Marilyn Sheerer urged East Carolina University graduates to embrace change, to lead and serve others in their search for success in the future.
Published: Friday, May 16th, 2014 @ 12:09 pm
By: ECU News Services
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People keep talking about the high burden of college debt, which now surpasses credit card debt. And the federal government is doing something to help.
Published: Monday, May 12th, 2014 @ 2:05 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The UNC School of the Arts and UNC-Greensboro want to create two new master of fine arts programs which - especially to those outside academia - appear to be duplicative. UNCSA wants to confer MFAs in filmmaking, and UNCG wants to confer MFAs in media production.
Published: Thursday, January 30th, 2014 @ 2:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Student loan defaults continue to cause problems in this country. As recently as 2010, nearly 375,000 students defaulted within two years of beginning repayment. One idea put forward to address the issue involves assigning more responsibility for defaults to colleges and universities themselves...
Published: Sunday, December 8th, 2013 @ 2:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A faculty member recognized by the University of North Carolina system for his work in cardiac psychology will deliver the commencement address at East Carolina University on Dec. 13.
Published: Saturday, December 7th, 2013 @ 6:19 am
By: ECU News Services
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The N.C. Community College System recently released its annual Developmental Enrollment of High School Graduates report.
Published: Saturday, November 2nd, 2013 @ 9:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Speakers at a recent conference at Wake Forest University agreed that it is hard for English majors (and other liberal arts majors) to find jobs after graduation. However, they maintained that, although colleges could do more to help them find jobs, liberal arts remains a worthwhile field of study.
Published: Wednesday, June 13th, 2012 @ 11:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I was surprised after I graduated from college that employers were not lining up outside my door fighting over me. That was the picture that my private, liberal-arts college depicted while I was completing my degree.
Published: Friday, April 27th, 2012 @ 3:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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