On my first day in office in January, I directed the Department of Education to pause federal student loan repayments for millions of Americans through September.
Published: Thursday, October 28th, 2021 @ 2:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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American college students have taken to saying that they need "safe spaces" on campus. They really don't, since all they're after is "safety" from ideas they dislike
Published: Thursday, November 24th, 2016 @ 10:02 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Higher education reformers have long argued that colleges' admissions selectivity reveals little about their educational quality and how well they prepare students for the workforce and civic life
Published: Monday, October 24th, 2016 @ 10:13 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Foremost among the criticisms of the way our administrative law system works is that bureaucratic agencies get to act as lawmaker, judge, jury, and executioner all rolled into one
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2016 @ 12:23 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In the midst of Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe and the United States, and despite Americans' apprehension over large numbers of Muslim refugees being resettled in American cities and towns, the Obama administration is doling out taxpayer money to refugees to help them start their own businesses
Published: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016 @ 4:06 am
By: Jim Kouri
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North Carolina's public university system is a multi-billion-dollar organization that impacts virtually every region of North Carolina-socially and economically
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 6:30 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Even before she assumes control of the University of North Carolina system, former Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has become a lightening rod for attacks by faculty, students, and activists on the left
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Recently, the U.S. Department of Education unveiled its controversial College Scorecard website and accompanying data
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 9:51 am
By: John William Pope Center
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"I wish my job did not exist," wrote Nick Cooper, an administrative law attorney for Norwich University (Vermont), in an April 29 Pope Center article.
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 @ 10:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Student loan debt in North Carolina is not a good news-bad news story. It is a bad news-worse news story. Student debt, with a couple of exceptions, has been rising across the board at University of North Carolina schools, both in the percentage of students who need loans and the amount of their...
Published: Friday, September 11th, 2015 @ 2:05 am
By: John William Pope Center
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East Carolina University is ranked No.1 in Washington Monthly magazine's list of "Best Bang for the Buck Colleges in the Southeast" released Aug. 24.
Published: Sunday, August 30th, 2015 @ 1:18 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Indebtedness due to student loans is one of the most pressing issues in higher education today. I believe strongly that we must face this issue head on, and my institution, Adrian College, has developed a plan to do that.
Published: Thursday, April 2nd, 2015 @ 5:44 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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East Carolina University has been named the No. 1 "Best Bang for the Buck" among colleges and universities in the Southeast in a new report that ranks universities on outcomes and the degree of opportunity afforded students.
Published: Monday, March 23rd, 2015 @ 6:53 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Not all students can obtain federal loans for college because some community colleges do not participate in the federal lending program.
Published: Tuesday, September 16th, 2014 @ 6:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Funds from the federal government for college flow liberally, but there are limits.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 1:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Sometimes, we find ourselves debating whether Barry Obama is simply incompetent or willfully driving our economy into the toilet.
Published: Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 @ 10:24 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Beaufort County Board of Trustees on Thursday held its spring retreat with student loans and changes to the board's bylaws and constitution on its agenda.
Published: Saturday, March 22nd, 2014 @ 6:02 pm
By: Barbara Tansey
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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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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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It often appears as if the country’s six regional accrediting agencies are the federal overseers of all things higher education. It’s time to put an end to their expansive role; doing so would very likely set off a great chain of positive reform. This is especially important now, as Congress is...
Published: Saturday, November 23rd, 2013 @ 2:11 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, August 28th, 2013 @ 8:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Students are defaulting on their college loans at worryingly high rates. Many observers of higher education believe that one reason for the defaults is that those most...
Published: Thursday, August 8th, 2013 @ 3:14 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Last September, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $3.3 million in grants for papers on the subject of federal student aid programs--specifically, how we should "reimagine" student aid. The papers were recently released, but there wasn't anything very imaginative in them.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 8:55 pm
By: George Leef
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