Daniel Luzer

On Thursday the for-profit University of Phoenix released its third annual report on its students and how well they perform. According to the company’s report: The completion rates for the University show a slight decline from the rates shown in the 2009 Academic Annual Report in the percentage of students graduating in 150 percent of […]

On Thursday Sister Marie E. Thornton, formerly the vice president of finance at New York’s Iona College, surrendered to authorities on charges that she embezzled $1.2 million from the college. According to an article by Brue Golding in the New York Post Sister Marie Thornton, 62, allegedly stole the money over the course of a […]

The U.S. is no longer number one in college attainment. It’s 18th (or 6th depending on how you measure) in the world. These are the statistics frequently bemoaned by the Obama administration and used to back up all new education initiatives. But it’s not just the U.S. that’s losing the education race. A look at […]

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Americans like education improvement in theory; they just don’t want to pay more money for it. This sounds hypocritical but it might actually make sense. According to an Associated Press article by Eric Gorski and Alan Fram: Eighty-eight percent say a country’s education system has a major effect on its economic health. Nearly as many […]

As it appears everyone knows by now, many people in Britain are very, very angry about the collation government’s push to impose higher tuition on students attending British universities. On Thursday the House of Commons passed a bill to increase tuition. Three ministerial aides resigned in protest. Last night tuition protestors apparently attacked a car […]

Apparently the next stage of Iowa Senator Tom Harkin’s inquiry into for-profit colleges will be about military money. Some 40 percent of the federal tuition money for active-duty military personnel pays for for-profit online colleges. According to an Associated Press article in the Idaho Statesman: For-profit college companies are taking in enormous amounts of federal […]

Apparently students at the University of Maine stopped a class from making a documentary film about killing and skinning rabbits. According to an article by Abigail Curtis in the Bangor Daily News: The rabbit’s close call happened during final presentations for the Camden International Film Festival Course in the Arthur Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall. […]

Earning a vocational certificate is the only reliable way to get unprepared, reasonably low-achieving students on the path to a steady job and a good salary. According to a piece in The Hechinger Report’s Community College Spotlight: “Some college” doesn’t help drop-outs get a job. An associate degree in general education doesn’t help, unless it’s […]

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