Daniel Luzer

Affirmative Action has come a long way, baby. It’s come so far that eventually sometimes it starts to work in the other direction. Apparently many Canadian universities are now adjusting medical school admissions procedures so that they target men. According to an article by Carolyn Abraham and Kate Hammer in the Globe and Mail: Dr. […]

Richard Vedder, an economist at Ohio University who’s very, very interested in proving that college is overrated, has an fascinating new piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. He’s created a fun new chart that seems to prove that, yes, too many people are going to college. As he writes: Two sets of information have […]

The (apparent) writer of one Syracuse University Law School blog is now under investigation for harassment. Apparently some people think a satirical website constitutes harassment. According to a piece by Dara McBride in the school’s student newspaper, the Daily Orange: SUCOLitis, a WordPress blog, began publishing online at the beginning of October. A group of […]

With the Obama administration’s interest in community colleges representatives of many schools are coming together to define community college success. According to an article by Matthew Dembicki in Community College Times: A federal committee charged with recommending to the U.S. education secretary what measures would best gauge student success at community colleges used its first […]

Average student debt rose to $24,000 for the class of 2009. The Project on Student Debt, which has for the last five years released information about total college debt information, has just published its latest report. According to the study: [This] $24,000 in student loan debt [is] up six percent from the previous year.1 The […]

Years and years of Affirmative Action have made colleges more diverse, but they’re still not all that good at educating ethnic minorities. According to an Associated Press article by Eric Gorski in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: A biannual report card on minority educational attainment by the American Council on Education (ACE)… pays special attention […]

One student at George Washington University is really annoyed that, in order to accommodate Muslim students, the school is allowing a one-hour period in which only women can use the gym pool. Writing for the school’s conservative student-run newspaper, The Patriot, Erin Mew complains: The fundamental issues I have with female-only swim hours are as […]

Drunkorexia, a slang term for a condition where people (mostly women) routinely avoid food in order to free up more calories for alcohol, is apparently big on college campuses. According to a piece by Kristen Browning-Blas that appeared in the Los Angeles Times: And as the college semester is in full swing, campus counselors hear […]

It’s no great surprise that there’s a big difference between the earnings of people who went to college and people who didn’t. According to the latest available data, the average high-school graduate earns $25,900 a year while the average college graduate earns much more, $45,400 annually. Increasingly, however, it looks like educated people are clustering […]

Going to law school, or going to most law schools, is now kind of a bad idea. The plethora of lucrative job offers is a thing of the mythical past. For many graduates a law degree now just means a great big pile of debt. And so one law student wants out. According to a […]