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Every year, millionaire college presidents and lobbyists come to Washington, D. C. to plead for more federal money from American taxpayers in order to educate the public but you get a different story when you actually go to a few college towns.

Ohio University Economics professor and author Richard K. Vedder will be the keynote speaker at the annual John W. Pope Center Higher Education Conference, to be held Saturday, Oct. 8, at the Hilton Hotel in Research Triangle Park.

School officials have no trouble finding projects to spend budget dollars on: Duke University, for example, gives each freshman a cutting-edge high tech i-pod for no particular reason.

In what looks like a naked power grab, the Obama Administration is poised to extend its dominion over a higher education establishment that already tilts left.

Discussing President Obama’s goal that America would “once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world,” an Education Department official recently argued that increased funding for minority-serving institutions—and historically-black colleges and universities, in particular—was the key to increasing the number of American graduates.