Daniel Luzer

Apparently students who manage to complete courses at any of Colorado’s 13 community colleges can go to University of Colorado, basically automatically. According to an article by Colleen O’Connor in the Denver Post: Starting next spring, students at Colorado’s 13 community colleges will be guaranteed admission to any Arts and Sciences program at the University […]

Well this is interesting. In further news of Florida’s storied for-profit college, Keiser University, it turns out that one state legislator may have something of a conflict of interest regarding the school. According to an article by Sally Kestin and Scott Travis in the Sun Sentinel: Keiser University’s general counsel, Jim Waldman, …is a state […]

There’s currently not enough money to fully fund Pell next year. Without more money for Pell, it’ll be hard for poor students to go to college, since the grant is an essential part of the way they pay for college. Oh, don’t worry about that, says the Heritage Foundation; Pell is really bad anyway. Lindsey […]

Maybe companies will soon starting employing all those college graduates with so much debt. According to a piece by the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University: Despite the gloomy national labor market situation, the college segment of the market is poised to rebound this year. While overall hiring across all degrees is expected […]

In light of the California Supreme Court’s recent decision that illegal immigrants qualify for in-state tuition at California state colleges, one Texas college plans to make a judgment about that soon too. According to an article by Reeve Hamilton in the Texas Tribune: Texas A&M University’s Student Senate is set to take a final vote […]

A piece by George Leef in the Pope Center’s Clarion Call makes the case that accreditation of institutions of higher learning is essentially worthless. As he explains, a recent paper notes that, …College accreditation depends overwhelmingly on the assessment of its inputs and procedures rather than on outcomes. Schools that appear to be following the […]

A trustee of one Michigan college is instituting a plan to cut off funding for a theater group because he opposes some plays the college has produced in the past. According to an article by Dave Murray in the Grand Rapids Press: Trustee Richard Ryskamp in the summer was turned back after questioning whether a […]

Despite the fact that no one’s interested in actually trying to fix the problem, the validity of the crisis in college costs is pretty much unchallenged. We all know college costs too much. We know college costs seem to rise faster than the cost of everything else. Maybe there’s no crisis, however. Maybe it’s all […]

In preparation for this weekend’s Harvard-Yale game—we’re now in the midst of week of hilarious antics (and it seems no students have any actual school work to do)—Harvard students have created a video mocking Yale. It isn’t exactly difficult to do. Harvard students created a parody inspired by Yale’s heavily ridiculed video from this winter, […]

On Monday the California Supreme Court ruled that illegal immigrants qualify for in-state tuition at California public colleges. According to an editorial in the Los Angeles Times: Economically, it makes sense to encourage these students to go to college; if they become successful professionals, business owners and taxpayers in California, they will contribute to the […]