Dr. Jenna Ashley Robinson and Duke Cheston of the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy share highlights from their recent report, Pell Grants: Where Does All the Money Go? Robinson and Cheston offered these comments during a June 25, 2012, speech to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. To watch full-length presentations of JLF events, click here.
Opinion
Job needs propel college reforms
I’ve long been bullish on North Carolina’s community colleges. In the past, I’ve praised the system’s cost-effectiveness, its capacity to serve nontraditional students, and the impressive labor-market returns for associate degrees and certificates in such fields as industrial technology, home repair, computer sciences, and health care. Today, I’ll offer you three pieces of good news...