Daniel Luzer

In the aftermath of news that Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX-30th) distributed questionable Congressional Black Caucus Foundation scholarships to relatives, the foundation announced that it’s now going to audit its scholarship program. According to an article by Todd Gillman in the Dallas Morning News: No other lawmakers have been accused of similar violations, but to […]

New York State is making it easier for families to save for college. According to a Bloomberg article by Alexis Leondis and Margaret Collins: New Yorkers who participate in the state’s 529 college savings direct plan will see fees cut by almost 50 percent, New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said. The direct plan’s total […]

Joining the chorus of people who wonder if we focus on college too much is social critic Camille Paglia, who thinks Americans have got college all wrong. Writing in the Chronicle Review, Paglia says: The pressuring of middle-class young people into officebound, paper-pushing jobs is cruelly shortsighted. Concrete manual skills, once gained through the master-apprentice […]

How are America’s proprietary schools looking to help preserve their profit margins now that the Department of Education’s getting a little nosy? There are several tactics. There’s the “student voices” tactic, in which highly coached students at for-profit schools argue that more scrutiny might limit their chances to get ahead. There’s the “honest broker” tactic, […]

The process of applying for and actually obtaining financial aid is (a little) better. According to an article by Elizabeth Fuller in the Christian Science Monitor: The federal stimulus included $100 billion for higher education, much of which colleges and universities have used to prevent or minimize planned tuition increases. Earlier this year, Congress voted […]

Maryland’s Towson University is now totally smoke-free. That means no smoking inside and it means no smoking outside. According to an article by Carly Wellham in The Towerlight, the campus newspaper: Towson is officially smoke free, and some students and faculty may take this time to cut back or even kick the habit. Those students […]

It’s just gotten more expensive for poor students in New Jersey to go to college. According to an article by Kelly Heyboer the Star-Ledger: Low-income college students who rely on New Jersey’s popular Tuition Aid Grant [TAG]program to help pay their tuition bills will see their aid checks slashed by nearly 8 percent as they […]

College Guide has written before about the interesting battle going on with regard to Ultrinsic, a Web site where students can make money betting on their own grades. Colleges are generally opposed to the site, arguing that the site is dangerous, illegal or, as a Stanford University spokesman said “the concept of betting on academic […]

Having trouble with that pesky town-gown relationship? or maybe your school has a reputation for racial intolerance. Why not solve the problems by offering more scholarships to local students? That’s apparently a popular tactic at a number of private colleges across America. According to an Associated Press article by Eric Gorski in the Washington Post: […]

It looks like Washington Post Company Chairman Donald Graham knows all too well how important for-profit colleges are to keeping his business alive. Yesterday the College Guide ran a piece looking at the relationship between the Washington Post and Kaplan University, the for-profit college it owns. As the Columbia Journalism Review’s Justin Peters said: What […]