Daniel Luzer

For-profit colleges and their advocates are now attempting to exploit minor problems with a GAO report about career colleges to argue that “the GAO should immediately retract its study and testimony [and] the Department of Education should push the ‘pause button’ on the entire rule [limiting the amount of debt for-profit colleges can force on […]

Wondering how the United States should be supporting higher education? Well collegiate education opponent Richard Vedder argues in the Chronicle of Higher Education that it might be a good idea to look at ancient Rome for lessons about college financing. He writes that : In ancient times, the Romans engaged in enormous building programs, particularly […]

Things continue to look bad for Kaplan, the education management corporation owned by the Washington Post Company. Apparently now would-be employees are suing the company for discrimination. According to a piece by Miami’s David Volz in Examiner.com: Kaplan Higher Education Corp., which has 2,600 employees in the Miami area was sued by the U.S. Equal […]

More in Ivy drug sales gone horribly awry: according to a piece by Maureen O’Connor in Gawker, on Monday December 21, police arrested a Cornell student for selling heroin. As O’Connor writes: An English major and transfer student from Rutgers, [Cornell senior] Keri [Blakinger] was arrested in an Ithaca parking lot with a Tupperware container […]

With the recession continuing and many states still struggling to balance budgets, the expenses of state universities are increasingly subject to scrutiny. Why do these schools spend so much, legislators wonder. These institutions should operate efficiently, more like businesses. This discussion is particularly relevant in Maryland, where many colleges are now increasingly class size and […]

On Monday the University of Connecticut picked Georgia academic administrator Susan Herbst to be the university’s next president. It’s something of a family business. Her brother, Jeffrey Herbst, is the president of Colgate University. Inside Higher Ed pointed out that the Herbsts aren’t the only college president sibling pairs. Kenneth Ender is the president of […]

College students are very depressed. American colleges are increasingly dealing with severe psychological problems. According to an article by Trip Gabriel in the New York Times: [SUNY] Stony Brook is typical of American colleges and universities these days, where national surveys show that nearly half of the students who visit counseling centers are coping with […]

With the repeal of the military’s controversial Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy on sexual orientation expected for early this week, Yale announces that it’s considering bringing a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program back to campus. According to an article by Mary O’Leary in the New Haven Register: Yale President Richard C. Levin, in a […]

On December 10th researchers at the University of Maryland released a study about voters and their opinions. The report indicated that people who regularly watched Fox News were likely to be misinformed about major issues. Daily viewers were more likely to believe that “most economists” think the stimulus caused job losses. They were also more […]

StraighterLine, a Baltimore-based company offering $99 a month online college courses through agreements with traditional colleges, looks rather promising. Earlier this year the Washington Post’s Daniel de Vise wrote that the business is “a serious education company and a force that could disrupt half a millennium of higher-education tradition.” And as Kevin Carey wrote for […]