Daniel Luzer

On Wednesday Robert L. Harris Jr. resigned from his position as director of the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell. This apparently came about because Cornell decided to make the research center part of the College of Arts and Sciences. It’s currently independent. According to an article by Lawrence Lan and Ben Gitlin in […]

Despite talk about getting more students through college, and despite the fact that America is increasingly ethnically diverse, it’s pretty much the same students who are doing well in college. Earlier this week the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released a report about college graduation, and it doesn’t look so great. According to the […]

Earlier this week the New York Times, in its famous Room for Debate section, posed an interesting question: Does It Matter Where You Go to College? Seven people weighted in, and all their responses were interesting but, looking at it again, I wonder if it really might just be the wrong question. Maybe it’s not […]

On November 12 Melinda Gates (right) resigned from the Washington Post Company’s board of directors. She’s been on the board since 2004. According to the Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch: Donald E. Graham, chairman and chief executive officer of The Washington Post Company said: “With her knowledge of technology, education and media, Melinda Gates has […]

The Dutch University of Amsterdam agreed Tuesday to grant a replacement diploma to Justus Eisfeld, a Dutch man living in New York who graduated from the school 2001. He was, however, a woman back then. According to an Associated Press article in the Columbus Dispatch: Justus Eisfeld will get a new diploma after Education Minister […]

This is a little late now, but from Arizona comes the odd news that the University of Arizona is now charging its students extra for being smart and working hard. According to an article by Michelle Monroe in the student paper, the Arizona Daily Wildcat: There are 629 fewer Honors College students this year than […]

Apparently the University of Maryland now has its own eating club. But despite the fact that UMD has become more expensive recently (students faced a 4.5 percent fee increase this year), it’s not one of those eating clubs. You know, the fancy social kind they have at Princeton. Not quite. According to an article by […]

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Earlier this week the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of an earlier federal appeals court ruling that held that Virginia’s alcohol regulatory board could ban alcohol advertisements in student newspapers. According to an Associated Press article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: The U.S. Supreme Court is leaving in place a ban on alcohol […]

University of Georgia student Daniel Burnett (right), the editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper, the Red & Black, resigned Monday after an awkward incident in the president’s box at the school’s football stadium. According to an article by Jaime Sarrio and Jim Galloway in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The editor-in-chief of the University of Georgia’s campus newspaper […]