Daniel Luzer

Kansas State University was very briefly in Newsweek’s list of the 25 Most Desirable Large Schools. And then it was off the list. According to an article by Mara Rose Williams in the Kansas City Star: The Kaplan/Newsweek 2010 college rankings listed the Manhattan campus as the 16th most desirable. But it turns out that […]

The College Guide has written before about the idea of a new form of affirmative action in education, one with the potential to address social class, not merely race. It looks like that might actually be happening, slowly. According to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Socioeconomic class is no longer dismissed as […]

At the same time many American colleges are making SAT submissions voluntary (perhaps in a cynical move to appear more selective) one academic offers an interesting take on the appropriate role of standardized testing in college admission. According to a book review in Miller-McCune: Robert Sternberg argues that the SAT and ACT, the standard achievement […]

Displaying another example of interesting donations, Terrence Pegula has given $88 million to Pennsylvania State University. According to an article by Robert Moran in the Philadelphia Inquirer: In 1973, Pegula earned a bachelor’s degree in petroleum and natural gas engineering from Penn State. He formed his company 10 years later. Pegula was born and raised […]

Surprise, the Wall Street Journal says, it turns out college graduates, even with all that debt, still make more money than anyone else. Perhaps more importantly in this economy, people with college degrees are more likely to keep their jobs. According to an article by Conor Dougherty: [There is] a divide between the fortunes of […]

The Department of Education’s proposed new rules for for-profit colleges has sent armies of lobbyists to the hill, inspired interesting campaign contributions, generated articles by education pundits across America, and even fueled Senate hearings. But the actual regulations—under which schools wouldn’t be eligible for federal financial aid if average graduates need to spend more than […]

Ah, a long last. Someone has come up to the truly novel idea of combining rock music and college. According to an article by Jacques Steinberg in the New York Times: [MTV], the music channel and the College Board are scheduled to announce this morning that they are joining together to stage a contest, the […]

Here’s another reminder about the college graduation rate event, scheduled for tomorrow. The Obama administration—along with many other policymakers—talks about the shamefully low graduation rates of certain public high schools, dubbed “dropout factories,” as a key barrier to opportunity. But it turns out the new focus on these low-performing schools obscures what happens later on, […]

People involved in public higher education across the country have talked about the need for a new public education funding model. The candidates for governor of Colorado are apparently also trying to come up with new funding models for the state. According to an article by Kevin Duggan in The Coloradoan: Higher education in Colorado […]

College Guide often focuses on the rising price families pay for college, particularly due to declining state support for public higher education. But why does this happen? It’s not because states have just mysteriously become less generous. According to Peter Orszag, the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2009 to 2010, it’s […]