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Michael Brendan Dougherty ponders the pandemic’s potential impact on American higher education.
Published: Saturday, July 11th, 2020 @ 12:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The House Select Committee on COVID-19 Education working group has approved an education omnibus bill providing regulatory relief and support for North Carolina’s K-12 and higher education systems.
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2020 @ 12:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On most days and most roads, most drivers treat posted speed limits as the recommended speed
Published: Tuesday, May 15th, 2018 @ 7:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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University of North Carolina system campus leaders are entangled in regulations that waste time and money, and they should be free from such worries, system President Margaret Spellings said Friday
Published: Wednesday, January 18th, 2017 @ 3:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Community College System is poised to become a national leader in career and college readiness
Published: Monday, March 28th, 2016 @ 12:27 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Pope Center publishes this paper as part of our continuing effort to spur transparency in higher education. North Carolina citizens need to know if the UNC system is fulfilling its mission of discovering, creating, transmitting, and applying knowledge. The new edition of...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:57 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Higher education is changing rapidly, and the University of North Carolina system must adapt accordingly, said former U.S. secretary of education Margaret Spellings, who was elected Oct. 23 to be the sixth president of the consolidated UNC system.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 6:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ever since Republicans gained majorities in the North Carolina General Assembly in 2010 and won the governor's office in 2012, Democrats and Progressives have lamented the decline of higher education and especially the University of North Carolina System. Critics of North Carolina Republicans...
Published: Monday, June 8th, 2015 @ 11:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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During each legislative session, education is at the forefront of budget and policy discussions. Expenditures on elementary, secondary, and higher education (the University of North Carolina system plus the community college system) added up to more than $11.5 billion last year, or 58 percent of the
Published: Thursday, January 15th, 2015 @ 12:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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During each legislative session, education is at the forefront of budget and policy discussions. Expenditures on elementary, secondary, and higher education (the University of North Carolina plus the community college system) added up to more than $11.5 billion last year, or 58 percent of the North
Published: Friday, January 9th, 2015 @ 10:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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College students are heading home for the holidays, but the University of North Carolina's Board of Governors continues its work. The Pope Center for Higher Education Policy believes the BOG has plenty of opportunities to improve North Carolina's 16-campus university system. Jane Shaw, president...
Published: Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014 @ 11:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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
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When the Common Core state standards for K-12 were rolled out in 2009, few foresaw the impact on higher education. Alarms about the takeover of the entire educational system with the new national standards and tests in math and English language arts were often dismissed.
Published: Friday, September 19th, 2014 @ 10:34 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Too often, American college students face a one-question test, one based not on facts, but on ideology. The test: "Are you a liberal, or conservative?"
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 12:37 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Much of Governor Pat McCrory's policy on higher education revolves around a catch phrase: "closing the skills gap." Mirroring a national policy touted by President Obama and Vice President Biden, McCrory's drive to "close the skills gap" reflects his vision of the community college system as an unde
Published: Sunday, June 1st, 2014 @ 10:30 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement after the State Board of Community Colleges and University of North Carolina Board of Governors today signed a revised Comprehensive Articulation Agreement (CAA) between the two public higher education systems.
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 6:13 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Few state-level legislative sessions have garnered as much attention as North Carolina's did his year, as evidenced by the "Moral Monday" protests and a condescending New York Times editorial. For the first time since Reconstruction, Republicans controlled all branches of government, and...
Published: Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 @ 6:41 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The wild swings in North Carolina's higher education budget may have come to a halt. Last year, the University of North Carolina system absorbed roughly $400 million in cuts -- a few years before that, higher ed was getting annual increases of 5 percent and more.
Published: Monday, August 13th, 2012 @ 12:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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