Daniel Luzer

Alumni from across the country are apparently suing their fraternity, Tau Epsilon Phi, a small society founded at Columbia in 1910. According to an article by John Eligon in the New York Times: The lawsuit, filed in September by dozens of fraternity members, seeks, among other things, to remove the national executive director, George Hasenberg, […]

Some California public colleges are now eager to publicize how much their schools are “worth.” According to a piece by Lisa Krieger in the San Jose Mercury News: What’s a degree worth? It’s no longer measured by the number of days devoted to Milton, Marxism and margaritas. New data show that the midcareer median salary […]

Writing in the Washington Post today, Oklahoma State University Provost Robert Sternberg warns that admissions officers pay too much attention to the SAT. This is the sort of sentiment that strikes students, academics, and parents as rather obvious. For admissions personal, however, it’s irrelevant. Sternberg writes convincingly that, We can do a much better job […]

Most all American universities now believe that racial diversity in a general sense is sort of a good thing. Various universities have done away with specific affirmative action policies, and racial quotas are actually illegal, but diversity itself is good for colleges, right? The trouble is it turns out that vague diversity goals don’t really […]

Duke University has enjoyed a steady rise in status since it was converted from Trinity College by a huge bequest in 1924. But then, every once in awhile, something goes terribly wrong and people start to hate Duke again. There was that whole lacrosse trouble back in 2006. Earlier this year a medical researcher at […]

American college students are taking a lot more online courses. According to a piece by Kevin Carey at Education Sector: The Sloan Consortium Report on online higher education… found that the number of college students taking at least one online course increased from 3.9 million in Fall 2007 to 4.6 million in Fall 2008, a […]

The notorious dropout factories that are the City Colleges of Chicago are going to change, this time for real, Chicago politicians promise. According to a press release by the mayor’s office: Mayor Richard M. Daley and officials of City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) today launched the reinvention of the 99-year old community college system set […]

In the aftermath of the suicide of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi in September, New Jersey’s congressional representatives are working on a national anti-bullying bill. Oddly, however, the bill closely mirrors the existing policies in place at Rutgers University, polices that didn’t help Clementi. According to an article by Kelly Heyboer in the Star-Ledger: Colleges and […]

In the continuing battle over higher education funding in Louisiana, one of Republican Governor Bobby Jindal’s primary weapons was his argument about efficiency. Why should the state university system be getting so much money from the state (Louisana public universities are among the cheapest in the nation), Jindal asks, if they don’t do a very […]

Surely you’ve seen this one already. On Tuesday, November 16, Cornell University’s Mark Talbert yelled at a student for yawning during a class Talbert was teaching. According to the write-up in Inside Higher Education: He asks that the person who made the noise, which he later identifies as loud yawning, apologize, and asks other students […]