Daniel Luzer

America’s for-profit colleges have a new strategy: Republican alliances. According to a piece by Joanne Jacobs of the Hechinger Report: Fast-growing for-profit colleges, under fire for saddling students with unmanageable debt, are rolling out new policies aimed at raising graduation rates while also hoping a Republican-controlled House will block unfavorable legislation. “We have a great […]

Every university in the world, it seems, wants to move up a little in the rankings, whatever rankings they use. Now apparently there’s a computer program to make it a little easier. Phil Baty reports in the Times Higher Education that: Academics in Taiwan have developed a tool that predicts the outcome of different management […]

Harvard University has become concerned that too many of the portraits that decorate campus are of white men. There are 750 oil portraits on campus. Some 690 of them are of white dudes. So it’s time to diversify, reports the Boston Globe. According to an article by Tracy Jan: Groundwork for the minority-portraiture project was […]

Don Draper of “Mad Men” attends a typical college orientation session: See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

No matter what training someone has, sometimes the jobs still just aren’t there. While going back to school seems like a good way to help improve job prospects, further training doesn’t guarantee real employment. According to an article by Frank Schultz in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The new marketing slogan for Blackhawk Technical College is […]

About half of college bookstores now offer some form of textbook rentals to students. But according to an Associated Press piece in today’s Wall Street Journal, it doesn’t really work very well: Textbook rental programs at many of the nation’s colleges — touted as money-savers for students — are limited by the number of available […]

Although the Washington Post Company is facing a lot of scrutiny from Congress for its business practices, apparently it’s still doing rather well financially. According to an article by Brett Pulley and Dan Golden in Bloomberg News: Washington Post Co. said third- quarter profit more than tripled on sales growth in its higher- education unit, […]

Colleges, virtually all of them, get more selective every year. While American colleges often tout this as evidence of their success, Eric Hoover writes in the New York Times that it’s actually more complicated, and not so positive: The college-bound population has grown, and so, too, has the number of applications students file, thanks in […]

In a truly novel budget cutting measure, two Minnesota state colleges, Anoka Technical College and Anoka-Ramsey Community College, will now share the same president. According to a press release by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system: To better serve students in the northern suburbs and the Cambridge area, Anoka Technical College and Anoka-Ramsey Community […]

One dormitory at Seton Hall University has now prohibited students from putting up any decorations, including those on their own doors. It’s apparently designed to teach students a lesson, or something, though it just seems patronizing to me. According to Peter Bonilla at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) one resident assistant (RA) […]