Daniel Luzer

It turns out it’s pretty high. Apparently just attending a cheap school isn’t assurance that the student won’t default on student loans. According to a piece by Joanne Jacobs at the Hechinger Report: New Education Department data shows 15.6 percent of community college students default on federal loans over the lifetime of the loan, reports […]

With predictions flying around about the need for more college degrees (by 2018 we will need 22 million new workers with college degrees, says a report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce), some states are eager to increase the number of college graduates. Colorado is one of those states. Outgoing Governor […]

Arkansas officials join those from other states calling for a change in how the states fund public colleges. According to an article by Evie Blad in the Northwest Arkansas Times: Arkansas’ higher-education director wants to change the formula the state uses to fund colleges and universities, doling out more public money to campuses that meet […]

More budget cuts are coming for Connecticut colleges. And legislators and college administrators aren’t being terribly reassuring about it. Basically, get ready for it, they say. According to an article by Jacqueline Rabe in the Connecticut Mirror: Officials at Connecticut’s public colleges and universities are bracing for another tough budget year as the legislature and […]

Reporters at the University of Texas at Austin’s paper looked into the school’s majors, and what the payoff from them turns out to be. It’s pretty grim. According to an article by Nadia Macias at The Horn: The worst paying degree? Child and Family Studies. On average, starting pay was $29,500. At mid-career, the average […]

Part of the trouble with covering the ongoing fight about for-profit colleges is that it all starts to seem so sordid. Iowa senator Tom Harkin decides to investigate proprietary schools, citing a damning Government Accountability Office report about the companies. And then the for-profit college advocates investigate the GAO, finding that, “ The entire credibility […]

The Los Angeles Times is apparently helping the University of California defend the status quo. This is understandable, but disturbingly short-sighted. According to an editorial in the Times Colleges and universities across the nation, prompted by ubiquitous rankings based on factors that often have nothing to do with the quality of education, have been engaging […]

College is a really good investment. This is according to a piece by Francesco Cesareo in Massachusetts’s Worcester Telegram & Gazette: A slowly recovering economy, a challenging job market and a strong media focus on student loan repayment and default rates have some parents and student borrowers asking, “Was it worth it?” I offer a […]

Despite the failure of the DREAM Act, California, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Texas, and Utah are proposing making college degrees a little easier for illegal immigrants to obtain. Maryland is the latest state to join the group. According to an article by Shankar Vedanta in the Washington Post: Maryland would offer in-state […]

It turns out this may have been the year in which Americans figured out that college isn’t exactly the golden ticker we once thought it was. According to an article by Victoria Reitano at the Huffington Post: With the current recession still in effect as we lurch towards 2011, your career choices have become less […]