Daniel Luzer

Only a few weeks after the University of Virginia decided it didn’t need to pay for landline service in student dormitories, the school has branched out to new, incredibly sophisticated telephone technology. According to a piece in Charlottesville’s Newsplex: Over the weekend, Apple approved the University of Virginia’s “app” – an application for use on […]

In a depressing update to the story of Quincy College, the Massachusetts community college with a board of trustees so incompetent it couldn’t hire a president, the school still doesn’t have leader. The board (at Quincy it’s called the Board of Governors) briefly got it together long enough to hire an administrator but it looks […]

Lasell College, a 1300-student school in Newton, Massachusetts, has agreed to pay almost $200,000 to students for its own role in pushing improper student loans. According to an article by Todd Wallack in the Boston Globe: Lasell College agreed to pay more than $191,000 to students to settle allegations it steered student loan applicants to […]

So higher education costs keep going up even though most people have less money now than in past years. So how do people buy college now? While many parents and students are (thankfully) a little more skeptical about the wisdom of education loans, it looks like some families are making other risky financial decisions. According […]

Something is going very wrong with American public universities. According to an article by David Glenn in the Chronicle of Higher Education: The ideal of American public higher education may have entered a death spiral, several scholars said here Thursday during a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. That […]

When California State University unexpectedly increased the education fee in July 2009 one student, communications major Angela Yuen Uyeda, sued the school in small claims court, hoping to get back the $336 extra dollars she was forced to pay. Well no, San Francisco Superior Court Commissioner Paul Slavit decided Monday. Cal State doesn’t owe Uyeda […]

Even if the A–themed campaigns common in education organizations are a little tiresome, at least there’s a certain logic to them. A’s are the grades one earns for doing a good job in school. So when Drake University introduced its D+ advertising campaign for the 2010 academic year, marketing people were quick to recoil in […]

A small college in Michigan has taken the remarkable step of guaranteeing that its students will get jobs if they finish school. And not just any jobs, good jobs. According to a piece by Daniel de Vise at the Washington Post: Albion College… may be the first institution of its sort to guarantee students “meaningful […]

In 2008 some people affiliated with the University of Phoenix decided to create a nonprofit research institution to study issues at for-profit schools. The institution, first called the National Research Center and now known as the Nexus Research and Policy Center, recruited major scholars for advice. According to the University of Phoenix, the new center […]

In a very loose sense, American jobs are now divided into two types, those that require a college degree and those that don’t. Some people, after all, simply don’t need to go to college to do their jobs effectively. But what if a bachelor’s degree helps people do their jobs better. This appears to be […]