Daniel Luzer

Columbia University is considering a more stringent anti-smoking policy on campus. According to an article by Amber Tunnell in the Columbia Spectator, the campus newspaper: A proposed resolution to ban smoking within 50 feet of all buildings on Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus has become a contentious issue in the University Senate. The resolution, proposed by […]

Apparently several American universities are already gearing up to make pitches to host the Barack Obama Presidential Library (yes, weirdly there’s already a website). According to an Associated Press article by Herbert Sample in the Daily Caller: Barack Obama hasn’t even finished the second year of his first term in the White House, but officials […]

College admissions is going to change a little next year, according to a piece at U.S. News & World Report. Kim Clark reports that: Interviews with admissions officers at some of the nation’s most popular colleges reveal recent and important shifts in the weighting of traditional admission factors. Recommendations and high school class rank matter […]

There’s yet another yet another new effort to improve America’s teacher training programs. This comes out of a report warning that teachers colleges are (still) not doing a very good job. According to a piece by Stephanie Banchero in the Wall Street Journal: We need large, bold, systemic changes,” said James Cibulka, president of the […]

The governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels recently introduced a plan to essentially pay students who graduate from high school early. According to an article by Can Carden in the Northwest Indiana Times: The Republican governor said the details of the idea still need to be worked out, but… [he] said he’d like to make early […]

In other naked library news, administrators at Brooklyn Law School are apparently very annoyed with Diesel for a photo shoot the law school agreed to let the design company perform in its library. According to an article by Kevin Fasick and Dan Mangan in the New York Post: Brooklyn Law School officials rented Diesel its […]

According to an article in the News & Observer, one student at North Carolina State University was behaving rather oddly last week: N.C. State University officials say a student was cited for simple assault and indecent exposure after knocking hundreds of books off the shelves of the D.H. Hill Library while naked earlier this week. […]

With the future of higher education in jeopardy, the Arizona Regents are taking charge. Well, in a way. According to a piece in the Arizona Republic: Revenue options are drying up. Incoming freshmen at Arizona State University and the University of Arizona are paying 40 to 50 percent more in tuition than freshmen in 2008. […]

Some American academics are astoundingly well compensated. According to an article by Andrea Fuller in the Chronicle of Higher Education: The [The Chronicle‘s review of federal tax documents from the 2008-9 fiscal year] which included 448 chief executives, found 30 private college leaders who received more than $1-million in total compensation. In the previous year’s […]

Despite a lot of talk about the need to make more Americans college graduates, the country is spending less and less public money on higher education. Is there a way to fix this problem? Well there might be, according to a new paper prepared by McKinsey & Company, the management consulting corporation. As the report […]