Daniel Luzer

More information is coming out about the strange situation with bank cards and financial aid programs in Colorado. Students in the Colorado Community College System were told they could access their financial aid refunds faster if they signed up for one particular debit card, the one offered by financial services company Higher One. Well apparently […]

Apparently the Obama administration’s summit on community colleges last month is starting to have at least a little impact. Tabitha Whissemore writes in Community College Times that, Nearly a month after the summit, many of those top-level college administrators are already at work developing strategies to help more of their students succeed, from short-term efforts […]

The 112th United States Congress will be a very different place for higher education issues. With Republicans making significant gains in the House, Jennifer Epstein in Inside Higher Education points out, many colleges will face (more) funding cuts: In September, a group of House Republican leaders including Representative John Boehner (Ohio), the party’s apparent choice […]

So text font matters. While this is not exactly a revelation to graphic designers or even, say, a nine-year-olds who thought it might be fun to type homework out in Bauhaus 93 (not a good idea), no one was quite sure how font really worked. You could read it easily or you couldn’t, that was […]

Many colleges are trying to attract more adults to study at their institutions. For decades the pattern went something like this: unprepared students started college and then dropped out after a semester or two. By the time they returned to college they had other things going on in their lives (jobs, children, etc.) and often […]

According to a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education, America’s for-profit colleges are contributing generously to political campaigns this season. One of the top recipients? Old Governor Moonbeam: In the Golden State, Jerry Brown, the Democratic candidate for governor, has received the largest contributions from the Apollo Group to any individual state candidate. The […]

This doesn’t look very good Kaplan University. According to an article by Daniel Golden in Bloomberg News, Kaplan is particularly interested in recruiting military veterans, though perhaps not so good at educating them. Formed in 2004, Kaplan’s military team has 300 admissions advisers, financial aid counselors, and academic advisers based in Florida and Chicago…. Admissions […]

One sign from Saturday’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Keep Fear Alive: [Image via]

In one of the more surprising career paths of academics, yesterday Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed was sworn in as the new prime minister of Somalia. Mohammed, 48, was born in Mogadishu but spent many years in the United States. Mohammed, a U.S. citizen, earned a master’s degree in political science from SUNY Buffalo. He taught leadership […]

Facing with mounting financial problems, Louisiana‘s struggling to find ways to come up with funding for higher education. Wait, one state lawmaker says, wasn’t gambling supposed to make the state flush? According to a piece by Nate Monroe in the Daily Comet: Voters approved a constitutional amendment in 1990 creating the state Lottery, and the […]