Daniel Luzer

In one of the more depressing statements ever uttered by a public figure, Louisiana’s chairman of the Board of Regents warned the state that his time in office was likely to be rather grim. According to an article by Mike Hasten in the (Monroe, Louisiana) News Star: In his initial address as the new chairman […]

Thanks to the miracles of college marketing and overpriced athletic gear, Americans can buy Ivy League sneakers. Well, at least for 75 percent of the schools. According to a piece by Eve Binder at Ivy Gate: According to EUKicks, a blog for sneaker fans (hey, it takes all kinds), [New Balance] …will be releasing a […]

Despite increasing college attendance rates over the last 20 years, there’s a major barrier to achieving President Obama’s goal of producing five million more college graduates by 2020: we’re too damn poor. According to an editorial by Marc Morial in the Washington Post: Statistics show that there are more Americans below the poverty line now […]

The town of Narragansett, Rhode Island can continue to place large orange stickers (right) on the doors of houses in the community, almost exclusively occupied by University of Rhode Island students, that have large parties. According to an article by Katie Mulvaney in the Providence Journal: A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled constitutional Narragansett’s controversial […]

The Research Triangle, located in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina, has for decades been the model for the idea of economic development driven by academia. This part of the state, where Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, are all located, is home to numerous high-tech […]

Just in case Americans were looking for a few more reasons to distrust academia. According to an article by Benedict Carey in the New York Times, one of the country’s top psychology journals has agreed to publish an article outlining the case for ESP. Right, extrasensory perception (ESP), feeling things beyond the five senses. This […]

With the change in political power in the House of Representative come many changes for higher education. Colleges and universities may want to pay attention to the career of a little-known, very conservative, woman from rural North Carolina who will now administer some federal policy on higher education. The Chronicle of Higher Education conducted an […]

Washington, like several other states, is apparently now considering allowing its state universities to hike tuition in response to declining money from its state legislature. According to an article by Katherine Long in the Seattle Times: If the Legislature won’t cough up more money to grow the state’s four-year colleges and universities, the schools should […]

Last month the American Sociological Association announced that it wasn’t going to be able to hold its annual meeting this year in Chicago as planned. Some 5,000 academics were scheduled to stay at two Chicago-area Hilton hotels. But after protracted Hilton labor disputes over contracts and a one-day strike at one of the hotels, the […]

Apparently the idea of letting applicants submit videos of themselves as part of their admissions packages is becoming more popular. According to a piece by Jenna Johnson in the Washington Post: Videos have been a small part of the admissions process for years, especially for students applying to arts programs. But as cameras and editing […]