Daniel Luzer

How should students go about finding the right college? Something about the current process doesn’t quite seem to work. According to an article by Jennifer Feals in the Portsmouth Herald: Preparing for college is an exciting time, but as costs and student debt continue to rise, it’s also a financially daunting time that requires students […]

Some people at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is trying to crack down on grade inflation, the increase over time of American college students’ grades. According to a New York Times article by Tamar Lewin in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: If everybody in the class gets an A, what does an A mean? […]

For several decades efforts to get more Americans through college have primarily focused on access. Just getting to college was a point. But now that policymakers are starting to understand that college students drop out, a lot, it might be time to focus on college graduation rates. “Access is critical,” said U.S. Education Secretary Arne […]

It’s very, very hard to get into an American medical school. Even college students with very high GPAs and standardized test scores find it very hard to get accepted into medical school. Some 42,000 students apply to U.S. medical schools but less than 19,000 matriculate. For students who don’t have good grades or standardized test […]

Earlier this year Rutgers student Tyler Clementi killed himself after an acquaintance recorded him having sex with another male student in his dorm room. Despite the school’s candlelight vigil, and the fact that several politicians seem to think Rutgers’s policies on intimidation and harassment are a great model for the rest of the country, Clementi’s […]

Companies that run for-profit colleges are involved in some heavy lobbying in an effort to help prevent or minimize the impact of new regulations from the Department of Education. According to an article by John Lauerman and Jonathan Salant in Bloomberg News: For-profit colleges more than doubled spending on lobbying and hired six former members […]

The storied University of the District of Columbia now plans to offer some students the opportunity to earn a special bachelor’s degree, in only two years. According to an article by Daniel de Vise in the Washington Post: The University of the District of Columbia is preparing a pilot program that would offer students at […]

Nearly 34 million American adults list their highest level of education as “some college, no degree.” All of those people with “some college” education, you know when they left college? Right about now. Alan Tripp writes in the Washington Post that winter break is high dropout season: One of the things we’ve noticed in our […]

Americans know that college is important and the surest way to secure a professional job. But how should we be paying for it? The American system long ago moved into debt financing as one of the primary methods students pay for college. But this is becoming untenable. As former National Education Association President Reg Weaver […]

Despite the fact that undergraduates and professors form the basic financial and intellectual structure of a university, it’s not going so well for them. The average student now pays $15,213 a year (tuition plus room and board) to attend a public college and a total $35,636 annually to attend a private college. The average adjunct […]