Daniel Luzer

Forbes has just put out an interesting new article about the worst student debt colleges in America. According to the piece, by Chris Barth: The Project on Student Debt Report looks at trends and averages in student loan debt. The report identifies colleges and states that graduated students with the highest and lowest debts in […]

Back in April the College Guide looked into Latimer Education, the company working to create a for-profit college designed specifically for black students. Another entrepreneur is now working to create a specifically black online college experience. According to a piece by Marlon Walker in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: Launched by radio personality and longtime […]

The popularity of the entirely online class, despite questions about quality, is spreading. Now even many regular colleges are developing courses that students can access without ever leaving their rooms. According to an article by Trip Gabriel in the New York Times: Online education is best known for serving older, nontraditional students who can not […]

On Wednesday, in the aftermath of sweeping Republican victories in the House, President Obama said that education and research will continue to be high priorities for his administration. Well, at least he’ll try. At his “solemn and contrite” press conference he explained, We already had a big deficit that I inherited, and that has been […]

The battle over higher education tuition caps in the United Kingdom has resulted in some useful information. Last month the British coalition government issued a report that, according to the Economist: …Concluded that the current cap on tuition fees of £3,290 per year should be removed (though he suggested the Treasury claw back funds from […]

For-profit colleges have a lot of adversaries. Some of the most vocal advocates of the industry, however, often come from within. Instructors, administrators, and even students at for-profit schools are quite vocal about how good these schools are and how important it is to keep them open and operating more or less as they do […]

No surprise: with the economy still just limping along, more and more Americans are returning to college. Interestingly, however, it’s not going so well. According to an article by Marc Parry in the Chronicle of Higher Education: This lack of basic computer knowledge is an increasingly common predicament as community colleges accommodate workers displaced by […]

Community colleges in Indiana are now starting to offer an associate degree really, really fast. While such programs usually take two academic years, or 18 months, Ivy Tech Community College is now working on offering them in a mere 12 months. According to a piece in Inside Indiana Business: Ivy Tech Community College-Northeast is now […]

Despite the fact that many now see law school itself as a mostly wasteful endeavor, Arizona is working on a new plan that will likely make the law school at Arizona State University dramatically more expensive. It costs so much money for the state to run the school. Why not just privatize it? According to […]

Minorities are no big deal in college. Universities have been dealing with minority groups for decades (who’s a “minority” changes every generation, but still) but some minorities are easier than others. There are the minorities universities want to attract because they add to campus diversity. There are other minorities colleges don’t particularly need to attract; […]