Daniel Luzer

Goucher College is now running this advertisement: Well you better hope it isn’t dead; the MFA program costs $27,550.

Kaplan University is in trouble. With Congress and the Obama administration continuing their scrutiny of for-profit education, Kaplan now faces internal changes, from its own parent company. According to an article by Tamar Lewin in the New York Times: But the bad publicity, and growing scrutiny, have taken their toll. Since its recent high last […]

The Atlantic recently conducted a survey of American college presidents on the future of education. While this particular sampling is not exactly reflective of the United States (or, well, any valid predictor of what will actually happen), the results are kind of interesting. Despite widespread concern about the proliferation of students taking remedial courses, many […]

With the Republicans controlling the House, the next few years of education policy will be a little different, as College Guide has noted before. In particular, student loan rates are going to rise. Earlier this week Education Sector’s Ben Miller took a closer look at how education politics are likely to look in the next […]

Through a generous gift made possible largely by Yale University, any moderately successful student who graduates from a New Haven public school can now go to Connecticut state colleges for free. According to a piece by Winnie Hu in the New York Times: City and school officials announced on Tuesday that a new program, called […]

Colleges in general might not be too worried about drinking, but apparently Duke sure is. According to an article by Matt Ehlers and Eric Ferreri in the News & Observer: “Tailgate,” Duke University’s officially sanctioned pre-game football party, tried to corral boisterous, beer-drinking college students in a manner that was tolerable to campus administrators. To […]

Yesterday the College Guide reported on the t-shirt Yale students created for the Harvard-Yale game later this month. The shirt mocks the school and one of its former students, current Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Great concept. Harvard still wins. According to a piece by Bari Saltman in the Harvard Crimson, this is the winner of […]

California State University says the hell with it. Okay, fine. The system charges tuition. On Monday Cal State issued a statement that said, in part: At this week’s California State University Board of Trustees meeting, the trustees will review an agenda item that will inform them of the CSU’s intention to change the terminology used […]

With the cost of textbooks continuing to rise, and many students struggling to make ends meet in today’s economy, many schools are trying to offer deals on textbooks. Most of them aren’t terribly helpful. Textbook alternatives are created by textbook publishers and, while perhaps slightly cheaper than the new versions, are still very expensive. Washington […]

In anticipation of the 127th Harvard-Yale Football Game on November 20 Yale has made t-shirts. Really mean t-shirts. According to Ryan Tate at Gawker: Yale’s freshman class went right for the jugular with an official t-shirt mocking Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg as “antisocial.” As opposed to, say, Yale freshmen. The shirt… calls Harvard “the antisocial […]