Recent news stories and commentary have questioned the cost versus the benefits of going to college. This is because many students leave after attending big schools and graduate (or not!) with tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt. Meanwhile, the argument goes, the starting salary of graduates with a bachelor’s degree is not much higher than that of high school graduates. So what...

Lenoir Community College graduate Sarah Suggs of Snow Hill is excited to take her place in the classroom teaching after she finishes her four-year degree. Homeschooled part time, she attended Mount Calvary Christian Academy in Hookerton in May 2017, but she had already started her LCC education two years earlier by taking classes online during her junior and senior years of high school through the...