Daniel Luzer

The front page of the New York Times features a story about the stress levels of American college students. College freshmen are apparently just overmedicated, tightly-wound balls of tension and fear. But then, they’re also not learning anything. This disturbing stress information comes from the Higher Education Research Institute’s “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall […]

Bruce Fleming, the English professor at Annapolis who in May argued that service academies like Annapolis shouldn’t exist, has decided to end his official complaint against his employer. He had previously charged that the U.S. Naval Academy was denying him a raise after he, you know, wrote publicly that his school shouldn’t exist. According to […]

Cornell University has a $4.4 billion endowment. It also says it’s under considerable financial stress. In October it began to shut down its education department. In November it had to put up $350,000 worth of suicide-prevention fences. In December it began to consolidate programs. All of this budgeting information led the school’s Student Assembly to […]

Apparently Harrison David, one of the five Columbia students arrested in December for running a small ring on campus (“to pay tuition”), is planning to leave Columbia. Jail time looks unlikely. According to an article by Sammy Roth in the Columbia Spectator: “If the prosecutors feel as though some sort of period of jail would […]

While it’s rather unfortunate that President Obama didn’t say many of the things the Monthly recommended in his State of the Union speech on January 25. But he did do something unexpected; he praised community colleges. He said: Last month, I saw the promise of these schools at Forsyth Tech in North Carolina. Many of […]

Inspired by a May report by the Tellus Foundation about financial strategies at America’s most exclusive private colleges, Massachusetts State Senator Patricia Jehlen has proposed a new bill about college investments. According to an Associated Press article in the Boston Globe: Tax-exempt colleges and universities in Massachusetts would be required to turn over more financial […]

For-profit education corporation the Apollo Group, which owns the University of Phoenix, announced this week that it’s shutting down its Canadian franchise, Meritus University. According to the press release: Meritus will discontinue offering new courses to currently enrolled students, and the last day of classes for currently running courses is March 14, 2011. While this […]

It’s time for schools of education to prepare teachers to teach in the 21st century classroom, or something. According to an editorial by Tawn Hauptli in Community College Week: Research shows that even when the barriers of lack of time, support, and access were removed, some teachers simply did not care to use technology or […]

The Lumina Foundation has now started to define what college is actually supposed to do. On Tuesday the foundation issued a report about what everyone who graduates from college should know and be able to do, sort of. This is apparently the first time anyone’s really attempted to figure this out (at least in this […]

In 2004 Robert Burton gave the University of Connecticut $2.5 million to help create a football facility. The building (right) has Burton’s name on it. Now Burton wants his money back because he’s dissatisfied with the school’s athletic director. According to an article by Paul Doyle in the Hartford Courant: In a scathing letter to […]