Daniel Luzer

California State University has ordered one study aid company to cease operations, citing an obscure state law. According to an article by Claudia Buck in the Sacramento Bee: NoteUtopia, a startup company for college students founded by a young Sacramento State graduate, has been ordered to “cease and desist” by the CSU chancellor’s office. In […]

One of the major features of education lately is the evaluation data. How do we know schools and colleges are performing effectively? What are their measurable outcomes? How can colleges show success or, lacking that, improvement? While Americans still have no idea how much students in individual schools actually learn, colleges now trip all over […]

The U.S. Department of Education will apparently host two days of public meetings on the Department’s proposed “gainful employment” provisions, the controversial regulations that would cut vocational colleges off from federal funding if more than 35 percent of former students aren’t paying off their loans and/or if the average former student spends more than 8 […]

Back in September technology billionaire Peter Thiel (founder of PayPal) announced a kind of anti-scholarship: he would give $100,000 to kids to drop out of college and become entrepreneurs. Slate editor Jacob Weisberg writes that he totally objects to the Thiel plan, or maybe just Thiel himself: To describe Peter Thiel as simply a libertarian […]

As congressmen (and their opponents) debate the merits of various financial bailouts of the last few years, one opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times considers that it might be time for another bailout, this time for student loans. The piece is a year old, but still actually very timely. David Lazarus wrote: I’m sympathetic, […]

While universities have long been home to departments and programs devoted to studying various subgroups—women, African Americans, even Jews and Armenians—Columbia University has decided to devote some of its attention to studying one (kind of) neglected American subgroup: rich people. According to an article by Paul Sullivan in the New York Times: It was a […]

Back in February the University of Mississippi voted to get rid of their mascot, Racist Treasonous Anachronism-Man Colonel Rebel, and replace him with something a little less offensive. Well Ole Miss has chosen his replacement. According to a piece in Gawker by Adrian Chen: Rebel Black Bear won 62 percent of the vote, beating out […]

Some for-profit schools believe that the Obama administration’s new focus on community colleges undermines the role that their schools play in education and the economy. According to a Fox News piece: President Obama’s takeover of the student loan industry this year along with his push to boost community college graduation rates have come under fire […]

Some colleges have started to encourage students to apply for public assistance to buy food. The recession touches everyone. But maybe Michigan college students are using food stamps to buy junk food! A piece in the Lansing State Journal indicates that a lot of people think college students misuse the state’s assistance program, called Bridge […]

American public colleges generate a higher return on investment. According to a piece in The American, a publication of the American Enterprise Institute, by Andrew Kelly: In a new, thought-provoking analysis of previously unreleased data, my colleague Mark Schneider calculates an estimated “return on investment” (ROI) for more than 500 colleges and universities. Using data […]