Daniel Luzer

No, kid. No you don’t:

Just in case there was any ambiguity about this issue remaining, Northwestern University has made it official: do not wear costumes that reflect cultural stereotypes at Halloween this year. This morning Northwestern’s dean of students, Burgwell Howard, sent the following email to campus: From: Burgwell J. Howard Date: Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:00 AM […]

Congress still hasn’t taken care of that peaky Pell Grant problem that’s been building up since the summer. In July the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies approved a bill that provided only $169.6 billion in discretionary funding. That meant that Pell was still about $5.7 billion short […]

Almost 50,000 low-income New Jersey students are apparently in danger of losing their financial aid because they didn’t fill out some form. According to an article by Kelly Heyboer in The Star-Ledger: College financial aid officials and the state Higher Education Student Assistance Authority [HESAA] are in a last-minute scramble to track down the students […]

Can we just stop with this farce? Both candidates running for governor of California, Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Meg Whitman, have campaign plans to “save” higher education. But it doesn’t matter who wins the election, neither of their plans matter. According to a piece by Josh Keller in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Jerry […]

The state of college admissions has changed a little in the last few years. The National Association for College Admission Counseling recently released its annual report on college admissions. According to NACAC: The 2010 State of College Admission… documents changes in application volume and enrollment management strategies that may reflect the response of both students […]

Meth labs, maybe not confined to trailer parks anymore. Apparently Georgetown University was forced to evacuate an entire dormitory this weekend after two students were found to be running what police thought was a methamphetamine laboratory out of room 926 of Harbin Hall. According to an article by Daniel de Vise in the Washington Post: […]

The latest issue of the Washington Monthly is now live. There are a number of compelling features to check out in this issue. Our cover story, Patrick Doherty and Christopher Leinberger’s “The Next Real Estate Boom,” looks at how the country could benefit from creating the sort of real estate people actually want, dense walkable […]

Apparently going to college may put people at risk for a rare form of diabetes. According to a Reuters article by Alison McCook: People who attend college may be at greater risk of developing a less common form of diabetes associated with autoimmunity, new study findings suggest. Among more than 56,000 adults living in Norway, […]

Lawmakers in New Mexico worry that the state just has too many damn colleges. So many that they’re becoming a drain on the state budget. According to an article by James Monteleone in the Albuquerque Journal: Lawmakers on Friday blasted the growth of community colleges and branch campuses in the state and threatened to shut […]