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What if the qualifications that secure college and university accreditation instead secured accreditation for individual scholars?
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 1:45 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Students at a woman-only private liberal arts college in Massachusetts supported a non-binding referendum on Tuesday that would allow women who identify as men and “non-binary” individuals to apply to the institution.
Published: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 12:33 am
By: Daily Wire
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Homeschool students excel beyond their peers in private, charter, and public schools on the Classic Learning Test, according to a rigorous standardized college entrance exam oriented toward classically educated students.
Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 @ 7:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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Hillsdale College President Under Fire After Ripping State Of Public Education: Here’s What He Said.Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn tore into the state of public education last week during a private college event in Tennessee.
Published: Thursday, July 14th, 2022 @ 11:34 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A private military school’s woman’s rugby team is facing an investigation after reports surfaced that players on the squad were branded and waterboarded in March.
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2022 @ 2:00 pm
By: Daily Wire
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High school seniors could apply to any community college, nearly all private colleges, and six of the 10 public universities in North Carolina for free last week (October 15-19) as part of the annual NC Countdown to College
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2018 @ 3:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A recent study by the League of Women Voters reported "77 percent of private schools receiving vouchers are using curricula that do not comply with state standards, leaving many students unprepared for college-level coursework or careers in certain fields."
Published: Saturday, July 7th, 2018 @ 8:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The political interests of colleges and universities are adding to a growing list of problems for the schools over the past decade, and the free market will punish them accordingly, experts say
Published: Friday, October 13th, 2017 @ 10:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recent studies reveal a disturbing trend in higher education: colleges, both private and public, are increasingly devoting a significant amount of time and money to public relations.
Published: Monday, August 8th, 2016 @ 4:38 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A House committee on Tuesday approved a bill that would require the North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority to inform college applicants about the possible outcomes of a degree at any of the state's public or private colleges and universities
Published: Friday, June 17th, 2016 @ 9:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The higher education establishment is growing worried about privatization. Should the rest of us do the same
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 10:10 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A plan by prominent Stanly County government and private institutions to place a profit-making community college culinary arts program in a vacant building faces scrutiny, as critics say the proposal may violate state law.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2015 @ 5:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Academia is notoriously resistant to major changes. Whereas private sector firms rise, fall, merge, reorganize, acquire, and cast off unprofitable divisions with amazing speed, colleges and universities are hampered by unwieldy systems of governance, iron-bound traditions, and intense resistance...
Published: Thursday, June 25th, 2015 @ 5:35 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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"Drawing on a variety of government and private data sources, this report presents a provisional analysis of college value-added with respect to the economic success of the college's graduates, measured by the incomes graduates earn, the occupations in which they work, and their loan repayment rates
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 9:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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North Carolina routinely routes tax dollars to private service providers - both directly, in the form of Medicaid reimbursements and college tuition grants, as well as indirectly, in the form of public assistance that recipients spend themselves on food, clothing, shelter, and other goods.
Published: Tuesday, April 14th, 2015 @ 5:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Noted independent filmmaker Cynthia Hill will spend two days at East Carolina University to speak with students about her documentary on domestic violence and her PBS cooking series, "A Chef's Life."
Published: Thursday, March 26th, 2015 @ 12:43 am
By: ECU News Services
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The Benedictine monks who founded Belmont Abbey College 138 years ago are better known for peacefulness than for trend-setting.
Published: Monday, January 26th, 2015 @ 5:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Public universities have stability that private colleges do not. Cushioned by state appropriations, they don't rely on tuition the way private colleges do and their lower tuition makes them competitive.
Published: Monday, March 10th, 2014 @ 5:49 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Why does the Left oppose school choice? It can't be because they oppose tax dollars going to private, even faith-based institutions. For decades, state and federal subsidies have flowed to private colleges and universities, including sectarian institutions. For decades, Medicare and Medicaid...
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The September issue of Money (a Time, Inc. publication) featured an article titled "Busting the 5 Myths of College Costs" by Penelope Wang. It claimed that many of the assumptions that parents hold on how to reduce the cost of college are outdated or wrong. Wang promised to give the...
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2013 @ 12:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Early June is alumni weekend time at many private colleges, where past graduates gather to revisit old haunts, compare notes with fellow classmates, and hear stirring pronouncements from current administrators. It is also where donation-seeking alumni offices hope to inspire alumni to step up...
Published: Saturday, August 24th, 2013 @ 2:19 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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For decades, rising college tuition rates have been almost as reliable a feature of American life as death and taxes. A substantial part of the increase has underwritten student aid, often in the form of merit scholarships.
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2012 @ 3:20 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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