Daniel Luzer

Forgive Student Loan Debt, the organization created by Robert Applebaum dedicated to the radical idea that the best way to stimulate the economy is to forgive all students loans, will host an event on the national mall as part of John Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity on October 30. According to Applebaum: I’m now encouraging […]

Stocks in for-profit education companies aren’t doing so well lately. According to a piece in Reuters yesterday: U.S. for-profit education stocks tumbled to 6-week lows on Thursday after sector bellwether Apollo Group withdrew its 2011 outlook amid regulatory uncertainty, and forecast sharp falls in new student enrollments. Apollo shares slumped 25 percent to a near […]

In the latest news of problems at the University of California system, apparently many campuses have rather questionable relationships with big oil. According to a piece by Laurel Rosenhall in the Sacramento Bee: Under the contracts [between oil companies and universities, including those between UC Davis and Chevron, UC Berkeley and BP, and Stanford and […]

Surprise, right? Only it’s apparently not the fun drugs people worry about anymore. Now it’s the stimulants students take to study that’s the big new scandal in campus life. Oh, Ritalin. Such an important part of college were you. Little and round and white, the source of, and solution to, so much anxiety during exam […]

New Orleans’ Tulane University acted within its legal rights when it eliminated its women-only undergraduate institution, Newcomb College, in 2006. According to an article by John Pope in The Times-Picayune: By a 3-2 vote, a state appeals court today sided with Tulane University in a suit seeking to force the university to reopen Newcomb College. […]

Just because it’s innovative doesn’t mean it works. Something hovering around the edges of discussions about colleges is that higher education needs a “new model.” Sometimes it’s a new financial model and sometimes it’s a new form of delivery but either way a lot of people seem to think there’s something wrong with the status […]

As part of Obama’s negotiations about tax policy for this year he’s trying to extend some of the Bush tax cuts: those that allow tax credits for college expenses. According to an article by Jennifer Waters in the Wall Street Journal: The president, who says he wants the U.S. to lead the world with the […]

How much can you pay for college? Remember when $50,000 a year was a lot of money? Now that’s not even surprising. Cost is still going up, a lot, and now $60,000 is right around the corner. A lot of people were really concerned with the fate of American higher education when the total annual […]

Ohio’s state universities are running out of room for books. Rather than keeping all materials physically in libraries, universities generally store little-used materials in off-site storage facilities. But these are filling up too fast in Ohio. According to an article by Gina Potthoff in the Columbus Dispatch, the solution is just to throw stuff out: […]

From the department of Back When They Were in College comes news that Republican politician and weirdo libertarian Rand Paul was once a big devotee of Ayn Rand. According to an article by Greg Sargent in the Washington Post: In a 1982 Op ed Paul published in [his college] paper, he wrote worshipfully about the […]