Deborah Ross needs to explain what an "unsuccessful rape" is and apologize to the victim for describing her brutal rape in these terms, and also apologize to the public for fighting to get the attacker back on the streets.
Published: Friday, October 14th, 2016 @ 12:14 am
By: jonah
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East Carolina University has been named a 2017 Top 100 Best Value College in a new listing by Educate to Career.
Published: Monday, September 26th, 2016 @ 8:45 pm
By: ECU News Services
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An old baseball coach once taught his players a formula: P + O = S; Preparation plus Opportunity equals Success. David and Pamela Leonard aren't baseball coaches, but they are using that same formula to help East Carolina University business students become successful.
Published: Wednesday, June 1st, 2016 @ 3:39 am
By: ECU News Services
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Sixty-plus days past a July 1st deadline and North Carolina still has no state budget. One issue that many think is prolonging the current stalemate is what to do about teacher assistants (TAs). The best way to break the impasse is for the General Assembly to follow the state Senate's lead and...
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 8:13 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Yesterday, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted against H.R. 5, the Student Success Act, which extends No Child Left Behind (NCLB) programs and big-government education.
Published: Friday, July 10th, 2015 @ 5:32 am
By: Christopher Maye
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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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Keana C. Triplett, an English teacher from Ashe County High School, has been named the 2015 North Carolina Teacher of the Year. Triplett was chosen among eight regional teachers of the year as well as the charter school teacher of the year.
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015 @ 10:15 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Beaufort County Community College is celebrating Black History Month with a series of events that includes an appearance by one of the nation's most dynamic and uplifting motivational speakers.
Published: Tuesday, February 10th, 2015 @ 10:04 pm
By: Chris Downey
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A Goldsboro-based organization headed by the Rev. William Barber this year received nearly $350,000 of your tax dollars. Yes, that William Barber — the ringleader of highly partisan political protests against the General Assembly the past few years.
Published: Monday, January 19th, 2015 @ 8:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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East Carolina University has earned higher education's top honor for community engagement. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching announced Jan. 7 that ECU received the 2015 Community Engagement Classification.
Published: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 @ 4:29 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Last year, I was one of the first to report that the 2012-13 community college remediation rate for recent graduates of North Carolina high schools was 63 percent. Thanks to the outstanding staff at the N.C. Community College System office in Raleigh, I have obtained the 2013-14 statewide rate.
Published: Saturday, December 6th, 2014 @ 11:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Members of Men of Success, the minority male mentoring group at Beaufort County Community College, gave a presentation to the college's Board of Trustees and members of its Foundation Board of Directors recently at a joint retreat of the two boards.
Published: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014 @ 9:42 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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In his first address to Congress President Obama argued that the United States needs to put far more people through college so that our economy will remain competitive with those of other nations. He set forth a goal of again having "the highest proportion of college graduates in the world."
Published: Thursday, February 13th, 2014 @ 12:07 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Madam Chair, Ranking Member Hinojosa, and Distinguished Members of this committee, thank you for this opportunity. The Pell grant program faces two serious problems today: its increasing cost to the taxpayer, and its failure to serve students well. The program is too expensive and too few...
Published: Friday, December 6th, 2013 @ 8:10 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Students may think that arriving at East Carolina University means escaping from parents and constant reminders to "Do your homework!" However, those out-of-class exercises could affect college students' academic success - at least if they're studying economics.
Published: Saturday, August 24th, 2013 @ 5:40 pm
By: ECU News Services
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I worked at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) for more than four years, rising to the post of director of academic technology in the school's Information Technology Department. My first position at the school was that of instructional designer in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and...
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2013 @ 4:35 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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During the years that North Carolina was riding high - particularly the 1980s and 1990s - state policymakers wrung their hands about the problems associated with a fast-growing, successful economy.
Published: Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 @ 11:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Story of the best pulp fiction writer in "The Whole Wide World" was a whale of a tale. Pulp fiction writer Robert Ervin Howard, who in life was successful in the most difficult of times.
Published: Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 @ 10:54 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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