Daniel Luzer

Nevada’s higher education chief warns, yet again, that budget cuts to state colleges will be trouble. A year ago Nevada Higher Education Chancellor Dan Klaich pushed hard against proposed cuts, saying angrily that, If you want to continue to live in a state that consistently ranks in the bottom of every education and quality of […]

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC-5th), the new Republican chair of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness, is now letting people know what issues she may focus on as she runs her committee. She seems to indicate that she’s eager to cut spending, kind of. According to an article by Eric Kelderman […]

Hope College, a conservative Christian college in Holland, Michigan, now has a new, rather tortured policy on sexual orientation. According to the school: Hope College promotes the indispensable value of intellectual freedom and recognizes that there are Christians who take scripture seriously and hold other views. HopeCollege affirms the scholarly examination and discussion of all […]

Texas community colleges may soon take advantage of (or suffer from) a new funding formula that favors graduation rates. According to a piece by Karissa Rodriguez in The Accent, the student newspaper of Austin community colleges: Student success rates at Texas community colleges will determine how much state funding colleges will receive under a new […]

Just because there can seriously not be enough James Franco news in the academy, right? After a thrilling early academic career in the creative writing programs at several Ivy schools, Franco will apparently now be helping to teach a real class. Sorta. According to a piece in Movieline: Academy Award-nominated actor James Franco has partnered […]

The State of Washington plans to dramatically cut funding for higher education in the state to deal with the state’s continuing inability to balance the budget. The Evergreen State now has a $4.6 billion budget deficit. And so Governor Christine Gregoire has given Washington higher education some pretty scary cuts in her new financial plan. […]

If college students live in dormitories are they more likely to graduate? Apparently some colleges are now betting that this might work. According to an article by Lekan Oguntoyinbo in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: Many urban and commuter universities have their sights set on…young, vulnerable first-generation students unlikely to connect with the college and […]

A student group at Washington University in St. Louis apparently invited celebrity dancer and, um, abstinence expert Bristol Palin to campus to appear on a panel to discuss sexual abstinence. And then the school had to retract the invitation. According to an article by Elizabeth Holland at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Washington University’s Student Health […]

Despite the fact that the price of public colleges has skyrocketed in the last two decades, and some argue that America’s state schools have forgotten their missions, David Leonhardt over at the New York Times wonders if maybe America’s state universities are too cheap. They aren’t. As he writes: Gary Becker, the Nobel laureate economist, […]

James Wood has an interesting commentary over at the Chronicle of Higher Education about the recent efforts of Lumina Foundation (which is, full disclosure, a Monthly funder) to help define what colleges are supposed to do. Wood’s piece addresses a fundamental question of American public policy: If America gives institutions incredible freedom to deliver services, […]