Daniel Luzer

A whole lot of things about Arizona’s Republican Governor, Jan Brewer, don’t make much sense. As Jezabel’s Irin Carmon wrote back in September “Brewer is reminding us of Sarah Palin inasmuch as she makes all women in politics look bad and makes their defenders queasy. She’s also reactionary — and has a way with words.” […]

So I know we all love the People’s Republic of China lately but this is just your occasional reminder that it’s still totally a Communist dictatorship. According to Secrecy News, a project of the Federation of American Scientists, China is still pretty intrusive as far as students are concerned. According to a Secrecy News post […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published a fascinating graphic about college attainment in this country. About 27.5 percent of adults in the country have attainted bachelor’s degrees. The map the Chronicle provides is interactive, so one can ascertain education levels by individual country, and for different ethnic groups. The education rates vary across the […]

If some Republicans in Congress had their way, there would be a lot of education programs cut off from federal support. Last Thursday the Republican Study Committee, a group of budget-cutting House Republicans, presented its plan to cut spending. The cuts wouldn’t help much at all. The committee’s plan would eliminate the National Endowment for […]

New York State apparently has more for-profit schools than it can regulate. Now in other states they don’t really try to regulate such schools but, since the 1940s an agency has been in charge of monitoring the for-profit schools located in the Empire State. New York State’s Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision (BPSS): ……Oversees and […]

Despite looming state budget cuts, it appears that the University of California system will continue to provide generous incentive pay and salaries, many of them to staff who already appear to be fairly well compensated. According to an article by Nanette Asimov in the San Francisco Chronicle: UC has still found a way to reward […]

Are college courses too focused? Too vocational? Even America’s best college students aren’t really so good at dealing with the hard questions that America’s leaders will face. So writes Heather Wilson, former congressman from New Mexico (and Rhodes Scholar), in an editorial for the Washington Post: An outstanding biochemistry major wants to be a doctor […]

Whatever happened to the state part of state universities? It’s getting increasingly difficult for families to find good deals on higher education, even when they concentrate on state schools. According to an article by Tamar Lewin in the New York Times, state support for state universities is now pretty low. As she writes: According to […]

The Faculty Senate at Carolina State University, a historically black university in Orangeburg, South Carolina, recently gave president George Cooper a no confidence vote. And now some state legislators are saying Cooper should resign. Cooper doesn’t think so. According to an article by Dale Linder-Altman in the Times and Democrat: Last week, the Faculty Senate […]

Keiser University, the controversial for-profit college that in October tried to sue an administrator at a Florida state college for “colluding with opponents of for-profit colleges in a targeted smear campaign against the school” will now become a nonprofit institution. According to a piece by Kelly Field in the Chronicle of Higher Education: The sale […]