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It seems shocking that, in 2015, it is difficult to fully answer the question, "What are college students learning?" After all, people can find out about admissions policies, degree programs, student debt levels, graduation rates, campus amenities, and financial aid options with the click of a mouse
Published: Tuesday, September 15th, 2015 @ 3:27 am
By: John William Pope Center
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One of the things that most frightens non-tenured faculty members is the prospect of getting too low an average on end-of-term student course evaluations.
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2015 @ 3:01 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Listen to members of the education establishment, and you will hear that not enough people are going to college. Listen to higher education reformers, particularly political conservatives, and you will hear that too many are going to college
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 7:06 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Commencement season is an often-controversial time. Last year was conspicuous for its wave of politically motivated disinvitations, with students trying, sometimes with success, to get their universities to rescind invitations to commencement speakers such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Condoleezza Rice.
Published: Monday, May 11th, 2015 @ 6:34 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Ten years ago, Ruth Simmons, then president of Brown University, said in a speech to students that she was concerned about reports about “the lack of diversity of opinion on campus.” People at Brown need to ask themselves, she said, “why the university has a reputation for ‘limiting debate’ and ‘fos
Published: Sunday, May 10th, 2015 @ 4:50 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Among the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill there are two quite different views of the university's recent athletic/academic scandal.
Published: Tuesday, May 5th, 2015 @ 4:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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For as long as I've been working in the higher education policy world, people have been talking about the prospects for a breakout for distance learning (i.e., online courses) and how that would transform higher education.
Published: Thursday, March 26th, 2015 @ 10:36 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A sad fact about some of today’s college students—particularly those of the leftist variety—is that they place greater value on their emotions and ideology than they do on tolerance, sensibility, and free speech.
Published: Wednesday, March 25th, 2015 @ 4:17 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The beginning of 2015 has been consequential for the University of North Carolina system. In January, the Board of Governors forced president Thomas Ross to resign from his position (he'll leave in early 2016), and in February the board garnered national attention after voting to close three centers
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 @ 5:52 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Last week, a working group from the UNC system's Board of Governors drew national attention and student and faculty protest after it announced plans to discontinue three of the system's 237 centers and increase oversight of thirteen others.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 11:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The University of North Carolina system recently took a step to make professors with tenure — the contractual arrangement granting job security to veteran faculty members — more accountable by revising its policy on post-tenure review.
Published: Friday, August 29th, 2014 @ 12:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is a forgotten group of college students. These are the students who start out at a community college, leave it to earn a bachelor's degree, but drop out along the way.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 7:05 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The John William Pope Foundation, one of the top-giving philanthropies in North Carolina, is proud to announce the 2014 class of Pope Family Eagle Scout scholars.
Published: Sunday, July 6th, 2014 @ 8:25 am
By: John William Pope Foundation
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The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) has received a grant from the John William Pope Foundation for $25,000 in support of the Museum's School Bus Scholarship Fund.
Published: Thursday, March 20th, 2014 @ 1:49 pm
By: John William Pope Foundation
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An MBA graduate from Duke University, Jim had spent the last four years working as a brokerage professional in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles when he decided to move his family back to North Carolina.
Published: Monday, March 10th, 2014 @ 5:53 am
By: John William Pope Foundation
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As an advocate for expanding parental choice in education, Terry has been a minority in a world dominated by education bureaucrats.
Published: Friday, January 31st, 2014 @ 1:56 pm
By: John William Pope Foundation
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The story began in the early 1990s, when Baker lived in Houston, Texas, with his family. He had recently sold his computer company and was looking for a new pursuit to spice up retirement.
Published: Sunday, January 26th, 2014 @ 1:13 pm
By: John William Pope Foundation
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