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Excellent Program in Business and Economics Where You Wouldn’t Expect One

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Fayetteville State University is part of the University of North Carolina system. It’s an HBCU, and the typical student who enrolls has a pretty weak academic background. Nevertheless, an excellent program in economics and business has sprouted at FSU. In today’s Pope Center piece, Jesse Saffron writes about it.

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George Leef — George Leef is the director of research for the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy.

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