Daniel Luzer

Remediation, the process where students enter college but are then forced to take ramp-up classes for which they cannot earn credit, has long been a problem at community colleges. Everyone is admitted, but only a few start college prepared to earn credits. Most are tracked into a series of remedial math and reading courses. As […]

Colorado students can now access their financial aid money through a credit card company-for a hefty little fee. According to an article by David Migoya in the Denver Post: Community college students statewide are being pitched a debit MasterCard promising faster financial aid and tuition refunds, but with steep hidden fees to access the cash. […]

Because community colleges and for-profit schools tend to enroll more or less the same populations, they’re often in competition- for students, for dollars, and for attention. This fact is an important one to proponents of for-profit schools who can point out, quite legitimately, that community colleges simply don’t have the resources to enroll and educate […]

Despite the fact that so many of its students are apparently drug addled, Columbia University is the most sexually healthy campuses in the nation. According to a piece in PR Newswire: New research from the makers of Trojan brand condoms, Sperling’s BestPlaces and Rock the Vote shed light on the state of sexual health at […]

Michai Freeman sued John F. Kennedy University, a Pleasant Hill, California school where she earned a master’s degree recently, because one of the campus gardens wasn’t handicap accessible. Freeman, who is confined to a wheelchair, wanted the university to make garden accessible so that she and other handicapped students could use it for classes in […]

“Think education is expensive, try ignorance.” That popular bumper-sticker phrase is generally attributed to Derek Bok, scholar and occasional president of Harvard University. But if Bok’s phrase has been fashionable, the sentiments behind it have generally proven unpopular. Eh, never mind; we’ll go with ignorance, say the American people. According to a recent publication from […]

America’s historically black colleges were founded as a way to help provide educational opportunities to black students at a time when they were largely prevented from accessing traditional colleges. The historically black schools that still exist continue to serve the disadvantaged, but it’s not just black students anymore. According to an article by Samieh Shalash […]

It’s apparently still just too damn difficult for Americans to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form, the document that college students fill out in order to determine eligibility for student aid. The secretary of education, Arne Duncan, recently complained about FAFSA during a teleconference with student journalists. According to an article […]

Columbia Business School, which costs a total $84,751 a year to attend, has recently received a gift of $100 million dollars. This is the largest gift to the school ever. According to to Columbia: The gift will be used to support the construction of the School’s new facilities, which will be part of Columbia University’s […]

Apparently Keiser University, a proprietary school in Florida, believes that it has been horribly wronged by one state college. And so Keiser has taken the unusual step of suing the president of that college. According to an article by Matt Coleman in the Florida Times-Union: Keiser… sued Florida State College at Jacksonville President Steven Wallace […]