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What does Independence Day - the 4th of July - mean to you?
Published: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 9:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Perhaps what Independence Day is all about is to reflect on our history and to rekindle our revolutionary spirit every year... our great love of liberty.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Learning a new language is a difficult task, especially later in life, but this skill can be essential for navigating life and fostering connections.
Published: Tuesday, September 20th, 2022 @ 11:28 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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As a project manager, you are always striving to grow and prove yourself to your colleagues and superiors.
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2022 @ 12:57 pm
By: Jessica Fender
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Dr. Denise Donica doesn’t live in the negative. Positive outcomes fuel Donica, an associate professor and chair of the East Carolina University Department of Occupational Therapy.
Published: Friday, June 11th, 2021 @ 4:34 pm
By: ECU News Services
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ECU’s English department values inclusivity, diversity
Published: Sunday, February 28th, 2021 @ 8:46 am
By: ECU News Services
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Weather has always fascinated East Carolina University student Mckenzie Swindle. Now, she is paving her way to a future career in meteorology.
Published: Friday, April 3rd, 2020 @ 6:23 am
By: ECU News Services
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On Friday, GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced new academic standards for the state, shoving out the Common Core standards that had been implemented in the state in 2010, just one year after he started pushing for jettisoning those standards.
Published: Wednesday, January 29th, 2020 @ 10:29 am
By: Daily Wire
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Seven underrepresented minority in medicine (URMM) junior faculty members from family medicine departments across the nation spent several days this week at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine for mentorship in scholarship and manuscript writing.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 @ 8:17 am
By: ECU News Services
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Beaufort County Community College congratulates Leah Beth Warren for winning the Phi Theta Kappa All-USA Scholarship.
Published: Sunday, March 24th, 2019 @ 9:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Classic literature has fallen from favor in English class. The movement away from the literary canon, begun decades ago, has accelerated rapidly following adoption of Common Core standards by most states eight years ago
Published: Saturday, September 1st, 2018 @ 7:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Joyner Library announced the winners of its annual W. Keats Sparrow Writing Award for student research during an Aug. 23 ceremony held in the Janice L. Faulkner Gallery, located on the second floor of the library
Published: Wednesday, August 30th, 2017 @ 11:31 pm
By: ECU News Services
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After spending thirty years in a corporate environment, I embarked on a second career as a member of the faculty and staff of a liberal arts college
Published: Sunday, December 4th, 2016 @ 4:48 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Greenville attorney James F. Hopf has been named Chief of Staff to the Chancellor at East Carolina University, following unanimous approval by the Board of Trustees Aug. 31.
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2016 @ 9:08 am
By: ECU News Services
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Whether it's Princeton Review, which grades schools based on students' evaluations, or U.S News and World Report, where rankings rely heavily on graduation and retention rates, schools celebrate a high position as an indication of a quality education
Published: Sunday, April 24th, 2016 @ 6:14 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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North Carolina lawmakers pushed back against Common Core education standards by passing legislation to require the teaching of cursive handwriting in elementary schools
Published: Friday, April 1st, 2016 @ 11:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At the Pope Center we spend a lot of time recommending changes to higher education policy. It's in our name. But there are ways you-as a citizen, parent, student, or employer-can pressure higher education to change.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 4:17 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Looking back at all that happened in higher education this year is enough to make your head spin. One minute, state politicians are finally making good policies; the next, university officials are caving to irrational demands
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 10:04 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Fun with the Thesaurus and other Trivialities
Published: Tuesday, January 26th, 2016 @ 9:51 am
By: Bobby Tony
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The opening message was roundly cheered—it was exactly what the crowd of roughly 150 professors and alumni came to hear at the “Public Universities, the Humanities, and Education in North Carolina” event held on October 10 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Published: Wednesday, October 21st, 2015 @ 3:55 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Results from an employer survey recently released by the University of North Carolina system suggest that graduates of the state's 16 public universities - especially those from less selective schools - are deficient in terms of their written and oral communication, work ethic, and workplace etiquet
Published: Sunday, September 6th, 2015 @ 9:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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People in and out of the academic world have been pointing to a glaring defect in our education system for many years. That defect is the failure to teach students to write competently.
Published: Saturday, August 29th, 2015 @ 5:10 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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If organizers of East Carolina University's first Eastern North Carolina Writing Symposium have their way, future classes of incoming students will arrive on campus with significant writing skills.
Published: Saturday, August 15th, 2015 @ 2:13 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Results from an employer survey recently released by the University of North Carolina system suggest that graduates of the state's 16 public universities - especially those from less selective schools - are deficient in terms of their written and oral communication, work ethic, and workplace...
Published: Thursday, August 13th, 2015 @ 5:38 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Over the past two years, the University of North Carolina has been implementing recommendations laid out by the General Administration and Board of Governors in their 2013 report, Our Time, Our Future: the UNC Compact with North Carolina. For example, the system has streamlined the transfer...
Published: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 @ 10:55 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Every field of study has its standard way of teaching it to students. Science is mostly taught through lectures and labs. Literature and philosophy are mostly taught through classroom discussion. And English composition is mostly taught through students writing essays and bringing them to class...
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 7:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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