Daniel Luzer

Facing continuing state budget cuts, the University of California, Berkeley announced last week that it is planning to lay off almost 150 of its employees. According to an article by Matt Krupnick in the Contra Costa Times: Some of the workers have already been notified, university spokeswoman Claire Holmes said, and most will be let […]

A recent report from the American Enterprise Institute indicates that providing American high school students and their families with more information might dramatically change college applications in the United States. According to the paper, by Andrew Kelly and Mark Schneider: When faced with the choice between two colleges with different records of success, students and […]

One of the enduring worries teachers and researchers have about high-stakes standardized tests is that they don’t really reflect student knowledge because students are so nervous when they take the tests. Well there might be a way to fix the anxiety problem. According to a study published in Science by researches from the University of […]

Residents of New York State worry that the budget deficit inherited by Governor Andrew Cuomo will force him to push for tuition increases at the state’s public colleges. According to an Associated Press article in the Wall Street Journal: Legislative leaders and advocates fear that a crushing deficit will force Gov. Andrew Cuomo to propose […]

On Monday this week Robert Birgeneau, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, sent an email to campus about the Arizona shooting. It was, well, an odd email. According to a piece by Howard Blume in the Los Angeles Times: In the e-mail, sent Monday, Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau condemned a “climate in which demonization […]

This is why headlines matter. As part of an otherwise very commendable effort to address sexual assault on campus, earlier this week the Iowa State Daily, the campus newspaper of Iowa State University, published a sidebar intended to list the conditions in which people were unable to give consent to sex. Due to a highly […]

It’s not only tuition that’s going up. Students are increasingly paying for college costs through higher student activity fees. Student fees are the bills charged to students at a school, in addition to normal tuition, to pay for non-academic activities and programs. According to an article by Yesenia Robles in the Denver Post: Despite constantly […]

All of those drug busts at Ivy League schools get a lot of press because, you know, those schools are really famous. But it turns out that, despite the fact that Columbia has five students recently charged with serious drug offenses, the school actually doesn’t have that many reported drug incidents. According to a piece […]

North Central College in Naperville, Illinois plans to have filmmaker Spike Lee speak at the college’s celebration of Martin Luther King Day. A local Italian-American group is offended. According to a piece by Mick Swasko in the Chicago Tribune: Bill Dal Cerro, president of the Italic Institute of America, said the filmmaker’s portrayal of Italian-Americans […]

In light of the new study demonstrating the surprising potency of legacy preferences in college admissions, Peter Sacks over at Minding the Campus takes the unusual step of considering how colleges and universities actually justify legacy preferences. He still misses the mark. As Sacks writes: Closely related to the claim of a private property right […]