Daniel Luzer

At the same time that the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) is paying $1.3 million to help people who don’t quite have a college degree earn the extra credits they need, one technology entrepreneur is saying the hell with it. If you’ve got a better idea, just skip college. According to a piece in […]

Apparently for-profit colleges are making another effort to help stave off the “gainful employment” rule. According to the Career College Association: This Wednesday, September 29, 2010, over one thousand students from private sector colleges and universities will converge on Capitol Hill to demand that Washington allow them to make their own educational choices. Students will […]

Yes, this election is going to matter. While perhaps the political breakdown of Congress will have no immediate impact on America’s colleges, the ballot questions in many states, it turns out, are going to matter a lot. According to a piece by Kevin Kiley in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Voters in a dozen states […]

In Nevada, hurting from major financial problems, higher education funding is turning out to be something of an issue in the gubernatorial election. According to an article by Ray Hagar in the Reno Gazette-Journal: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid [far right] unveiled his plan for higher education Thursday at the University of Nevada, Reno, telling […]

Apparently people who attend online colleges have very high dropout rates. More interestingly, it doesn’t appear there’s any way to stop it. According to an article by Marc Parry in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Students drop out of online classes at rates 15 percent to 20 percent higher than traditional ones…. Kennesaw State saw […]

The ongoing fight to end the bowl system of college football final games and create a formal playoff season just got a little more serious. According to an Associated Press article by Frederic Frommer in the Austin American-Statesman: Playoff PAC, a political action committee that wants the bowls replaced with a championship playoff system, plans […]

How did college get so expensive? And what can America do to fix the problem. Megan McArdle over at the Atlantic has an interesting piece on the cost of college. As she points out, college costs have skyrocketed, and most of that growth is subsidized by student loans. The trouble with this development is that […]

The Department of Education announced today that it will delay putting into action “gainful employment” rules—under which schools wouldn’t be eligible for federal financial aid if average graduates need to spend more than 8 percent of starting salaries to service student loans—for for-profit colleges. According to an article by Jennifer Epstein in Inside Higher Ed: […]

William Ayers, the former member of the Weather Underground who retired this summer as an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will not be granted emeritus professor status. “Emeritus professor” is the title often given to professors who retire from institutions in good standing and continue to teach or do research. According […]

For-profit higher education company Corinthian Colleges Inc. has created a national advertising campaign apparently designed to convince Americans that the Department of Education’s new rules for proprietary colleges will hurt working Americans. The campaign, called My Career Counts, states that 100,000 Americans would lose their jobs if the Department enacts the rules that will limit […]