Daniel Luzer

The University of Wyoming will apparently continue to schedule, pay, and cancel campus speakers on a totally ad hoc basis because, you know, it’s worked so well in the past. After the controversial visits of Dick Cheney and William Ayers (one would think they’d cancel each other out) to campus earlier this year, several school […]

The University of California is supposed to investigate each case involving potentially controversial stocks it holds as part of its endowment. This is designed to ensure that the state university’s financial investments are in line with its ethical commitments. Except it turns out it the university system generally doesn’t bother. According to an article by […]

The Department of Education has announced that it’s planning to convene a summit, a very ambitious summit. According to the Department: The U.S. Department of Education will host the “Sustainability Education Summit: Citizenship and Pathways for a Green Economy” Monday and Tuesday in Washington, D.C. More than 300 experts will come together to begin developing […]

With the economy in freefall, many are worried about the employment prospects of college graduates. Related to this, some Americans wonder if students are actually learning the skills they need in college to even get jobs. Marybeth Gasman writes in Diverse Issues in Higher Education that: Johnny Taylor [of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund]… recently […]

When considering how much it costs to actually attend college, critics often forget that there’s a big difference between how much colleges officially charge and how much most families actually pay. According to a piece by Jacob Goldstein at NPR: But the sticker price for a year of college is a lot different than what […]

Christine O’Donnell, the crazy ideologue and unstable failure Tea Party-backed candidate who won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Delaware earlier this week, was apparently very, very concerned with the proliferation of coeducational dormitories, now very common across America. According to a piece by Justin Elliott at Salon, back in 2003 O’Donnell, then working […]

After a decade of college costs (the actual cost of running an institution, not the price of tuition) increasing at the rate of two to five percent a year, they barely rose at all last year. According to a piece by Rachel Louise Ensign in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Plummeting utility prices and stagnant […]

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, when students graduate. Students who actually manage to graduate from the country’s […]

Georgetown University, which already has an endowment of some $957 million, just got a hell of a lot richer. According to the school: Georgetown University on Tuesday announced its largest gift: $87 million to support medical research. The gift originated with a $1.2 million charitable trust created by the will of the late Harry J. […]

Chicago State University, which has a graduation rate slightly under 13 percent, has apparently managed to (just barely) hold on to its accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. According to an article by Jodi Cohen in the Chicago Tribune: Chicago State University’s accreditation has been reaffirmed […]