Daniel Luzer

America wants more students to go to college. America is also devoting less and less public money to pay for people to go to college. There’s no way this can end well. According to a piece by Derek Spellman in the (Joplin, Missouri) Joplin Globe: That Catch-22 is not lost on state and higher education […]

Goldie Blumenstyk has an interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education looking at the future of for-profit schools. They probably won’t suffer that much, but they’ll still suffer. Part of this has to do with coming federal regulations, not to mention legal investigations, but part of this may be related to the fact that […]

It’s still a few weeks before Thanksgiving but it’d sure be nice to have a Christmas bonus early, wouldn’t it? Well you can if you’re a college football coach. Turns out these guys don’t have salaries like most people. They have base salaries, and then they can really cash in if their teams make significant […]

Earlier this week students in Great Britain took to the streets to protest a government plan to raise the fees students have to pay for university education. It’s protest with an odd history. According to an article by Sarah Lyall in the New York Times: A demonstration against government proposals to cut education spending and […]

George W. Bush (A.B. Yale, M.B.A. Harvard), the president who just keeps hanging around the news cycle, apparently hates the Ivy League. In his new memoir, Decision Points, he writes that Harriet Miers (B.A. and J.D. Southern Methodist University) couldn’t get confirmed because of her lack of Ivy League credentials: It seemed to me that […]

With the release of deficit commission report by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson earlier this week, everyone now wonders what this will mean for government programs and taxes. The report has implications for higher education too. According to a piece by Forrest Hinton at Education Sector, one recommendation could have serious implications for American colleges: […]

The executives who head for profit colleges are incredibly generously compensated, it turns out. According to an article by John Hechinger and John Lauerman at Bloomberg News: Strayer Education Inc., a chain of for-profit colleges that receives three-quarters of its revenue from U.S. taxpayers, paid Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert Silberman $41.9 million last […]

Guess who’s monitoring information about America’s borders and protecting its security? It turns out it’s a whole bunch of people who attended open admission for-profit colleges, mostly online. According to a piece by John Cook at Gawker: The National Security Agency, the supersecretive spy agency that’s supposed to be staffed with hypercompetent ubergeeks who are […]

The Illinois schools of education are not so great. That’s the conclusion of a new study by the National Council on Teacher Quality. According to an article by Bonnie Miller Rubin and Tara Malone in the Chicago Tribune: [The study] examined 111 undergraduate and graduate programs in 53 education schools across the state and found […]

Community colleges are maybe a little pricier than we realize. Or maybe they’re not. According to a piece by Eric Kelderman in the Chronicle of Higher Education: A new study, by a former community-college administrator…Richard M. Romano, examined federal data compiled by the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education, Costs, Productivity, and Accountability, and it found […]