Daniel Luzer

Several American civil rights organizations, including MANA: A National Latina Organization, the National Black Chamber of Commerce, the National Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women, and the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators, have eagerly supported for-profit colleges, arguing that because such companies have many minority students, further regulation would be harmful. This is evidently […]

The Great Recession has triggered a huge increase in the demand for community colleges. While some of this has to do with unemployed people eager for job training, a lot of this increase just comes from traditional college students hoping to save their parents some cash. These are different community college students. These students are […]

Wow, those high levels of undergraduate debt are really bringing this country down. How much longer can this last? How long will this country stand for a situation in which college tuition increases at twice the rate of inflation? While the situation looks dire, sadly history suggests this can last a lot longer. According to […]

Attending a for-profit college is a waste of money. Law school might be a waste of money too. Some argue that even college itself is oversold. Had enough yet>? Well now it seems that in many cases even the famously lucrative Master of Business Administration might be just another useless, overpriced degree. Philip Delves Broughton […]

More in awkward moments in student journalism. Copy editing errors happen everywhere, even Harvard. The front page of the January 31, 2010 student paper: [Image via]

America now has a number for Pell Grants next year. According to an article by Daniel de Vise in the Washington Post: The U.S. Department of Education set the maximum Pell Grant award at $5,550 for the 2011-12 academic year, signaling that the largest grant program for low-income students will be fully funded. This is […]

It turns out Americans might be a little too focused on the notion that college leads to upward mobility. According to an article by Joyce Jones in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: According to a report released today by Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, the United States’ increasing emphasis on a single pathway to […]

New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, promises that he won’t allow tuition at the state’s public universities to increase. According to an article in the Auburn Citizen: Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he is rejecting any increase in tuition at the public universities. The State University of New York has sought the authority from Albany to increase […]

High student loan default rates for people who attended for-profit schools are old news. Both detractors and advocates of such schools have debated the implications of the debt extensively. Supporters of for-profit schools generally point out that default rates aren’t their fault; the students they enroll are from low-income families in which “financial responsibility is […]

While Nevada may be too poor to fund its colleges, some universities are still quite rich. A report from the Commonfund and the National Association of College and University Business Officers indicates that college endowments increased an average 11.9 percent this fiscal year. Last year endowments declined 18.7 percent. According to a piece in Inside […]