Under the House General Fund budget for the University of North Carolina, the system would get a spending increase of $57 million over last year, bringing the budget up to $3.1 billion for the 17 campus system in 2019-20.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 12:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Here come the Democrats, and they're dragging behind them a big bag of socialism.
Published: Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 @ 1:59 am
By: Daily Wire
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The East Carolina University Board of Trustees approved the university's tuition and fees for the 2019-2020 academic year during its regular meeting on Friday, Nov. 2
Published: Sunday, November 11th, 2018 @ 7:09 am
By: ECU News Services
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Major tuition cuts are paying off at three North Carolina universities
Published: Wednesday, September 12th, 2018 @ 10:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lawmakers may give students from neighboring Georgia and Tennessee in-state tuition rates at one of North Carolina's two-year institutions
Published: Tuesday, June 19th, 2018 @ 10:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Fees but not tuition will increase for in-state East Carolina University undergraduate students during the 2018-19 year
Published: Friday, November 24th, 2017 @ 2:18 am
By: ECU News Services
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It’s the idea that just won’t go away: free college tuition. Yesterday Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York proposed providing free tuition for low and middle income students at state colleges and universities
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2017 @ 8:50 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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If you're a Conservative or Republican there's a lot to like in the state budget.
Published: Wednesday, December 28th, 2016 @ 1:16 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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This week saw the Burr campaign unveil its "Students for Burr" leadership team, its second leadership team in as many weeks.
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2016 @ 6:08 pm
By: Russell Allen
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What Parents, Students And Higher Ed Leaders Are Saying
Published: Monday, July 18th, 2016 @ 5:38 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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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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Senate leaders on Tuesday began unveiling their $22.2 billion General Fund budget, including a nearly 20 percent pay boost for teachers over two years, a middle-class tax cut, and a tuition freeze for UNC system students
Published: Thursday, June 2nd, 2016 @ 3:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What do a billionaire and a socialist have in common?
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2016 @ 3:59 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Anyone watching the higher education landscape these days can't help but note the proliferation of articles calling for free tuition. President Obama's January 2015 proposal to make the first two years of community college free spawned much of this discussion. While the proposal stalled, it did...
Published: Saturday, April 16th, 2016 @ 1:46 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Politicians around the nation like to say that they have held down tuition at their state universities. Michigan's are no different, and to validate their claim, in 2011 they added incentive-based funding to university appropriations.
Published: Tuesday, March 1st, 2016 @ 3:00 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) are taxpayer-funded accounts established to provide an education for qualified students. While the state oversees the deposit of state funds, parents have discretion over how the funds are spent...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 9:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Access to higher education has emerged as a major campaign issue this year-a heartening development. But the proposals for free or debt-free college being touted by Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders fail to address some of the biggest problems in higher education access
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 @ 4:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory has signed the following bills into law.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2015 @ 10:31 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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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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Governor Pat McCrory signed two bills into law today to support veterans and military families through in-state tuition at University of North Carolina (UNC) system universities and North Carolina Community Colleges and by improving job opportunities for veterans by extending the time period...
Published: Thursday, June 25th, 2015 @ 6:32 am
By: McCrory Communications
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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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Tuition keeps rising, yet millions of young people continue to pursue college degrees. Defenders of a traditional degree say it's the gateway to a successful career and life, and they bristle at any criticism of the system. But is it really all it's cracked up to be?
Published: Saturday, May 23rd, 2015 @ 1:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about why I thought President Obama's Community College Proposal was a bad idea. His plan to provide up to two years of free tuition to community college students who maintained a 2.5 G.P.A would cost $6 billion a year, is ill conceived, and based on fallacious assumptions.
Published: Sunday, April 19th, 2015 @ 1:00 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Frustration with the rising cost of health care gave politicians the ammo they needed to hang this ObamaCare monstrosity around our necks.
Published: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 @ 6:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The University of North Carolina is proposing to charge lower tuition to out-of-state students who live close to the state border. The UNC Board of Governors will consider the proposal, which is called "border tuition," at its January meeting.
Published: Friday, January 2nd, 2015 @ 8:10 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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