Daniel Luzer

The White House announced yesterday that it’s planning to host a summit on American community colleges on October 5. The host of the event will be the vice president’s wife, Jill Biden, who teaches English at Northern Virginia Community College. Biden (right) writes that, Obama asked me to convene the first-ever White House Summit on […]

Professors who manage a blog at the University of Toledo have announced plans for a national peer-reviewed journal. That’s a national peer-reviewed journal devoted entirely to critiquing the way academic administrators screw up colleges. According to a post at the blog, called the Arts & Sciences College Forum: Recognizing that the temper of our times […]

The University of California, Los Angeles has proposed privatizing its Anderson School of Management. According to an article by Larry Gordon in the Los Angeles Times: UCLA’s Anderson School of Management is seeking to end any reliance on state funds under a controversial proposal that would be the first such shift to self-sufficiency in the […]

Americans have to much student loan debt. What should the country do to fix that problem? Joining the chorus of those understandably worried about education debt is American Student Assistance, a non-profit loan guarantor. ASA has just published a new report about student loans, “Approaching the Tippling Point,” that is both informative and very wrong. […]

Apparently the New Pornographers, a Vancouver indie rock band, will not be allowed to play at Calvin College, an evangelical liberal arts school in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This is because people are too obtuse to understand the name of the band. Really. According to an article by John Serba in the Grand Rapids Press: The […]

Along with the Bush tax cuts, several tax benefits for college savings plans will also expire at the end of this year. According to an article by Sandra Block in USA Today: You can take some of the sting out of college bills by taking advantage of the credits, deductions and other tax-advantaged programs Congress […]

Well this is… interesting. David Glovin writes in Bloomberg News that New York University does not have to grant accountant and convicted felon Ayal Rosenthal the MBA degree he earned: A certified public accountant who hid his conviction for insider trading from his teachers at New York University’s graduate business school wasn’t entitled to the […]

One college in Pennsylvania has decided to skip most forms of online interaction for a week. According to an article by Kourtney Geers in the Patriot-News: Harrisburg University of Science and Technology blocked access to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Skype and other instant messaging services at 8 a.m. Monday for its campus network, banning social media […]

Earlier this month the Washington Monthly released its annual college ranking, which evaluates at American colleges and universities in part based on their commitment to service. Social entrepreneur Alan Khazei, CEO of Be the Change, Inc., an organization that works to create national coalitions of non-profits and citizens to address issues like poverty and education, […]

Women are earning more PhDs than men. According to a piece by Daniel de Vise in the Washington Post: The number of women at every level of academia has been rising for decades. Women now hold a nearly 3-to-2 majority in undergraduate and graduate education. Doctoral study was the last holdout – the only remaining […]