Daniel Luzer

In an effort to save money due to fiscal constraints imposed by the state, the University of California, Berkeley plans to eliminate five sports teams. According to the school: At the end of this academic year, baseball, men’s and women’s gymnastics, and women’s lacrosse will no longer represent UC Berkeley in intercollegiate competition. In addition, […]

While perhaps this is a little too late to be especially useful—since it’s now the end of September and students have not only selected their schools but actually started classes there—Lynn O’Shaughnessy over at U.S. News & World Report believes that a lot of Americans are choosing colleges for the wrong reasons. As she writes: […]

Richard Vedder over at the Center for College Affordability and Productivity has an interesting piece today about trying to find a “bottom line” for college quality. What do colleges actually produce ? As Vedder explains: I have a modest proposal of three ways that we could get immensely important information that would make for more […]

College, despite its rapidly escalating price, is still totally worth it, right? This is certainly true in the aggregate but when making individual financial decisions college value becomes a little more troublesome. The hell with prices, it’s always pays off, say some. According to an editorial by Barry Glassner, the incoming president of Lewis & […]

Many American public universities have attempted to address funding shortages through complicated restructuring agreements. Under such plans, like in Louisiana and like policymakers tried in New York, state legislatures give up their control over tuition and state universities get great independence to raise their own money. This may not be such great solution for students […]

Honorary degrees are a little silly. They’re generally awarded to big donors or accomplished alumni at commencement each year and then immediately forgotten. Well unless you’re British academic administrator David Kennedy. He’s not only really serious about his honorary degree; he’s really worried about other people’s too. According to a recent BBC piece: David Kennedy….said […]

Columbia is overrun by drugs. Oddly, this time it’s not Colombia, the famous Spanish-speaking narco-state in South America. No no, it’s Columbia, the 250-year old university in Manhattan. According to a piece in Gawker, Columbia University is apparently the best place to score drugs in New York. As Jeff Neumann writes: The drugs are easy […]

The governor of Texas, Republican Rick Perry, is on a campaign to treat public colleges like businesses. Well, sort of. According to an article by Katherine Mangan in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Mr. Perry, a Republican who came to office in 2000, when then-Gov. George W. Bush was elected president, has promoted his conservative […]

The one thing so many people want to know about college graduates is what their job prospects really look like. This is true whether graduates went to the oft-maligned for-profit schools or regular colleges. According to a new report by the Government Accountability Office, however, many states already collect information about employment. As the GAO […]

College students are working more than they used to. According to a piece by Laura Perna in Academe: The share of full-time, traditional-age undergraduates working fewer than twenty hours per week has declined during the past decade (to about 15 percent in 2007), while the number working between twenty and thirty-four hours per week has […]