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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Seemingly, nothing now stands between Hillary Clinton and the Democratic nomination, so it's worth looking anew at her proposals regarding higher education
Published: Saturday, July 23rd, 2016 @ 9:58 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Innovator's Dilemma theory is based on the premise that incumbent firms in a given market tend to focus on making incremental improvements to existing products and services, rather than on providing new and possibly revolutionary ones
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2016 @ 11:42 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The Pope Center, for the most part, is about policy. Our mission is to conceive and promote policies that will improve higher education
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:37 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Until recently, I was a college "bubble hawk." I saw significant parallels between the housing bubble that triggered the Great Recession and higher education. I believed that the combination of easy student loan money, rapidly increasing tuition, "creative disruption" caused by education...
Published: Friday, May 29th, 2015 @ 9:43 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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For all its power and political connections, America’s higher education establishment can be very thin-skinned.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 12:45 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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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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Until about five years ago, few people said much about America's federal student loan system. There was no talk of a "crisis," and discussions about change were pretty much limited to tinkering around the edges.
Published: Tuesday, December 31st, 2013 @ 1:48 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Big things were anticipated for higher education reform in 2013 - but the sizzle turned to fizzle in many cases. Landmark court decisions got pushed off for another year, bubbles didn't quite burst, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) did not take over vast swaths of the higher education...
Published: Saturday, December 28th, 2013 @ 1:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Every few years, The College Board releases a report entitled Education Pays: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society. It had not done so since 2010, until the latest version. These reports have a perfectly consistent message, namely that college education is all good. It...
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 @ 1:48 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In the six years I've been at the Pope Center, I've seen a number of new higher education reform organizations emerge. I view the growing numbers of allies as a sign that higher education reform is an idea whose time has come.
Published: Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 @ 4:36 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A colleague at the Pope Center has sighted some interesting birds - "bubble hawks" and "bubble doves." Using language...
Published: Friday, August 2nd, 2013 @ 5:59 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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This is partly because I helped my nine younger siblings through the college process, from application to graduation, but also because I've spent much of my own life in various colleges and universities, either as a student (I have a B.A., M.A., and a Ph.D.), a teacher, or as a...
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 @ 8:24 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Philanthropic foundations usually do not bear the costs when the ideas they promote turn out to be wrong. Unlike business capital, which can be lost when executives back bad products, foundations lose nothing when their executives back bad ideas.
Published: Friday, February 8th, 2013 @ 5:50 pm
By: Jenna Ashley Robinson
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Some of the Democrats in the General Assembly have already begun The Whine about the "devastating cuts" Republicans are making to the UNC system. That's foolishness. They should, in fact, be much more substantial.
Published: Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 @ 2:10 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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