Daniel Luzer

Campus police at the University of California, Berkeley have apparently become really interested in issuing hefty citations for minor bicycle violations. According to a piece by Lee Romney in the Los Angeles Times: UC Berkeley students — already squeezed by steep tuition increases — are banding together to protest campus citations for bike infractions that […]

Apparently some lawmakers in California think that if they have more control over the state’s higher education finances, that’ll keep education costs in the state lower. According to an article by Michael Mishak in the Los Angeles Times: Angered by years of student fee hikes at California’s public universities and colleges, lawmakers are pursuing legislation […]

The chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and strident investigator of for-profit colleges, Tom Harkin of Iowa, is now saying which education delivery companies are bad for America. According to a piece by Stephen Burd at the New America Foundation, Harkin said: Like Bridgepoint, schools that have large online […]

Not that anyone’s really surprised, but the DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act)—a bill that would have allowed undocumented immigrants to (essentially) become citizens if they complete two years of college or military service—was not passed by the U.S. Senate on Saturday. As Naftali Bendavid writes in the Wall Street Journal: […]

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is headed for a position at New York University. Well, sort of. According to an article by Lisa Foderaro in the New York Times: Mr. Brown, the university announced, has been named N.Y.U.’s inaugural “distinguished global leader in residence.” Still a member of Parliament, he will bring the cachet […]

One of the few real measures of effectiveness Americans have to gauge colleges is the gradation rate. The standard measure used for bachelor’s degree completion is graduation within six years of starting school, or 150 percent of normal time. Six years is a damn long time to earn a four year degree; if a student […]

Yesterday the weird saga of Harvard con student Adam Wheeler finally ended. According to an article by Tracy Jan in the Boston Globe: Wheeler, 24, was sentenced to 10 years of probation, ordered to pay restitution of more than $45,800, ordered to continue attending counseling, and forbidden to make a profit from his story. “I’m […]

Colleges apparently aren’t expecting to raise much money from tuition increases in coming years. This is according to a survey by Moody’s Investors Service. As Paul Fain explained in the Chronicle of Higher Education: When looking forward, a growing share of public-college officials were pessimistic about net tuition. About one in five public institutions projected […]

An apparently anonymous group of graduate students created “The Ph.D. Challenge,” an annual contest designed to get grad students to do something original, very original: All men and women who are currently graduate students at an accredited University or Institute of higher-learning are welcome and encouraged to participate. The idea of the PhD Challenge is […]

The Patriot League, a college athletic conference made up of schools including American University, Bucknell, and Lafayette, as well as West Point and Annapolis, has decided its schools will not be offering football scholarships, at least not for the next two years. According to an article by Brad Wilson in the (Easton, Pennsylvania) Express-Times: In […]