Daniel Luzer

In a rare display of a college accreditor actually flexing its muscles, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education is warning Elmira College that it may remove accreditation unless the school improves. According to an article by Ray Finger in the Star-Gazette: Elmira College has been warned by a higher education certifying organization that its […]

Business is no longer booming at the storied University of Phoenix, America’s largest for-profit college. According to an Associated Press article in the Boston Globe: Apollo Group Inc. [which owns Phoenix], the country’s largest for-profit school company, said Monday that it has laid off 700 full-time employees, mostly in student admissions, as enrollment drops off […]

Today marks the second day the Monthly’s annual fundraising drive. Thanks so much to everyone who has already contributed yesterday. For those who haven’t, your tax-deductible donation can make a big difference. If you’re a regular reader of this site and the print magazine, you know that the Washington Monthly offers the kind of cutting-edge […]

Earlier this month the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, worried about the popular Four Loko drink, said that caffeine-infused alcoholic beverages were a “public health concern” and took them off the market. There will be no more Four Loko for college kids (and the roughly .04 percent of other Americans who regularly enjoy the beverage) […]

It’s not just other higher education institutions with similar names that colleges find troublesome. According to an article by Adam Himmelsbach in the New York Times, some colleges are now threatening to sue high schools, with similar mascots or other symbols, because surely they’re a threat or something. As Himmelsbach explains: As high school sports […]

There are an awful lot of people interested in attending community colleges now. According to an article by Peter Whoriskey in the Washington Post: Just as workers have turned to community colleges, states have cut their budgets, forcing the institutions to turn away legions of students and stymieing the efforts to retrain the workforce. Unemployment […]

With continuing funding problems, many are beginning to wonder if the state of New York can afford its university system anymore. As Daniel Massey and Miriam Kreinin Souccar explain in an article in Crain’s New York Business: The growing protests on the campuses of New York’s public university are just one indication of a simmering […]

The DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act) is a bill that would allow undocumented immigrants to (essentially) become citizens if they complete two years of college or military service. This bill does not represent a major change in the philosophy behind American immigration. It merely provides a straightforward path to help […]

Here at the Monthly we host an annual fundraising drive. It’s back, and in this season of giving, your tax-deductible donation can make a big difference. If you’re a regular reader of the College Guide, Steve Benen’s Political Animal, or the print magazine, you know that the Washington Monthly offers the kind of cutting-edge reporting […]

The appeal of a prepaid tuition program is that parents start saving up for college early, no matter what universities technically end up charging when their children finally start. This was the Tennessee BEST college savings account program. Basically families could buy college credits at current in-state tuition rates and then redeem them when their […]