Daniel Luzer

Remember that whole “college and career” thing? The idea is that the Obama administration wants to replace some provisions of the No Child Left Behind, which requires that public elementary and secondary school students make educational progress every year, with something more absolute: every student will graduate from high school prepared to attend college or […]

Students got more financial aid money this year, but boy did they need it. According to a piece by Tamar Lewin in the New York Times: As their state financing dwindled, four-year public universities increased their published tuition and fees almost 8 percent this year, to an average of $7,605, according to the College Board’s […]

The senior class gift, a present from the members of one graduating class to the university itself, is often a little foolish. While senior gifts are sometimes used for scholarships or disaster relief, they’re more often used for useless projects. There are only so many engraved benches and Beaux Arts gates a university needs, right? […]

Indiana University briefly considered a plan to make all employees fill out an “online assessment of health risks” or pay extra in health care premiums. The school scrapped the plan. According to an Associated Press article in the Chicago Tribune: About 400 faculty and staff signed an online petition asking President Michael A. McRobbie to […]

Administrators at the University of Iowa were worried that many students began their weekends early. The school wanted to crack down on binge drinking, particularly common at Midwestern universities where there are limited social opportunities that aren’t alcohol-related. At Iowa Thursday night drinking became such a problem that the school decided to schedule a whole […]

You know what would be great? If some college students could tell anxious high school kids all about college. This is just what the world needs. According to a piece by Caralee Adams in Education Week, our prayers are answered: We can give students all the advice we want about the college-application process, but what […]

The College Guide has published a great deal about the role of for-profit colleges. We’ve devoted less time to the for-profit providers who enjoy contracts with regular colleges. For the last decade or so traditional colleges have been hiring independent companies to build and run online programs. Well now two of the largest online education […]

The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), a Washington, DC-based nonprofit, has created a new postsecondary education group, one specifically targeted toward the concerns of nontraditional students. According to an article by Joyce Jones in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: [CLASP] has launched a new Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES), which will […]

Joseph Agnew, a former football player for Rice University, is suing the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Agnew alleges that the association’s rules are in violation of federal antitrust laws. According to an article by Thomas O’Toole in USA Today: [Agnew] was a freshman on scholarship for the 2006 season, appearing in all 13 games, according […]

There are now more ethnic minorities than ever in American medical schools. According to an article by Carolyne Krupa in American Medical News: Looking at allopathic schools’ minority enrollment, there are 1,539 first-year Hispanic students this year, up 9.1% over 2009. The number of black medical students rose to 1,350, a 2.9% increase from 2009. […]