Daniel Luzer

Despite big fears among university staff about colleges cutting language programs, students themselves are apparently quite eager to keep studying them. According to an Associated Press article at KKUT in Alaska: A new study by the Modern Language Association says enrollment in foreign language courses grew 6.6 percent between 2006 and 2009 to reach the […]

The American public apparently blames college students for low college graduation rates. According to an article by Eric Gorski in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The public pins most of the blame for poor college graduation rates on students and their parents and gives a pass to colleges, government officials and others, a new Associated Press-Stanford University […]

Five Columbia undergraduates were arrested Tuesday on charges that they sold drugs to fellow students. According to an article by Chris Dolmetsch and Karen Freifeld in Bloomberg News: The indictment of the students and three other people followed a five-month investigation called “Operation Ivy League,” authorities said yesterday. Undercover officers spent $11,000 in 31 purchases […]

Oregon’s Lane Community College was going to offer a course in the spring called “What Is Islam?” And then it decided not to. That’s because people found out the adjunct the community college hired to teach it, Barry Sommer, turns out to be the head of a local chapter of what some say is an […]

So what’s the future of the University of California look like? Well, according to a piece in the Contra Costa Times, not so great. As Matt Krupnick writes: The University of California should increase the number of out-of-state students and boost online enrollment, a UC panel has recommended. In its report released Monday, the UC […]

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Last week the University of Phoenix announced it was planning to lay off some 700 employees, because it was expecting enrollment at the for-profit school to decline due to coming federal regulations about how much government-backed debt for-profit schools can force upon students. Well yesterday the Washington Post Company’s Kaplan Higher Education, which owns several […]

Several American colleges are apparently helping students get degrees by awarding college credit for “life experience.” According to an article by Jon Marcus in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: Universities and colleges are being pressed to increase graduation rates and speed up the time it takes for students to complete degrees by awarding college credit […]

The United States needs more college graduates, President Obama emphasized Monday in a speech he gave at North Carolina’s Forsyth Technical Community College. That’s because the country is facing a “Sputnik moment,” Obama said: Our generation’s Sputnik moment is back. This is our moment. If the recession has taught us anything, it’s that we cannot […]

Apparently the more education you have, the more “faith” you have in the institution of marriage. According to a CNN piece: The 2010 edition of “The State of Our Unions” — a report on attitudes toward marriage — indicates highly educated Americans are “embracing a pro-marriage mindset” even as middle Americans lose faith in the […]