Daniel Luzer

The default rate on student loans is actually rising. According to a piece by Tamar Lewin in the New York Times: The default rate on federal student loans continued to rise last year, with the rate for students at for-profit colleges — already the highest — rising the fastest. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday […]

Some students and alumni at Texas Southern University are annoyed with the school’s president, John Rudley, after he decided to paint over several campus murals, apparently due to their political content. According to an article by Sarah Raslan in the Houston Chronicle: Two murals painted by a Texas Southern University student 40 years ago were […]

For-profit schools are doing a lot of interesting thing as they try to avoid facing near-certain punishment under the Department of Education’s new gainful employment rule, which will limit the amount of debt students in those schools can assume. Some companies created fake student advocates. Some made their employees write the Department. And now there’s […]

That out-of-state education may not be worth it. It turns out state school graduates do pretty well in the job market. According to an article by Jennifer Merritt: U.S. companies largely favor graduates of big state universities over Ivy League and other elite liberal-arts schools when hiring to fill entry-level jobs, a Wall Street Journal […]

Newsweek has just put out another college ranking. This new release looks at the top 25 most service-oriented colleges in the country. This ranking may look somewhat familiar to regular College Guide readers. That’s because the Newsweek ranking comes from the service data the Monthly complied for our own college issue. The Newsweek ranking merged […]

New York State’s for-profit colleges are asking to be exempt from new Department of Education rules on gainful employment, under which proprietary 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. According to an article by Daniel Massey in […]

Cuts to college employees’ benefits packages this last academic year meant that health care premiums—the amount insured people have to pay out of pocket—have become more expensive. According to the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR): The percentage increase in the median annual cost of healthcare was substantially higher this year than […]

An Arkansas politician was forced to edit some campaign advertisements because they seemed to suggest he enjoyed the endorsement of state’s flagship university. He does not. According to an article by John Lyon in the Arkansas News: Republican John Boozman’s U.S. Senate campaign is scrambling to come up with a new television ad to replace […]

The relationship between journalists and American colleges and universities has changed a great deal in the last 60 years, according to a recent paper by Kalev Leetaru, the coordinator of information technology and research at the Cline Center for Democracy at the University of Illinois. According to Leetaru’s research More than 18 million documents comprising […]

Despite the fact that boards of trustees exert incredible power over their colleges, College Guide doesn’t look into their influence too often. This is unfortunate; because it turns out college trustees might have a real role in higher education reform. The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) has just released its new […]