Daniel Luzer

The Army will no longer be offering its GED program to new recruits. According to an Associated Press article by Susanne Schafer: The Army is ending a program that helped nearly 3,000 high school dropouts earn high school equivalency certificates and become soldiers. The GED pilot program known as the Army’s prep school started here […]

Regrettable as it may be, both college students and businesses basically understand the internship to be an essential part of today’s career path. People now have to take internships because they’re a way to enter into a particular industry and because they’re often the only entry-level jobs available. But for college students there are two […]

There’s a new program to help people who don’t quite have a diploma take that extra step to finally get a degree. According to an article by Patrick Boyle in Youth Today: A new project announced [last week] seeks to boost the number of college degrees awarded in the United States by finding people who […]

You want to be the commissioner of higher education? Melinda Deslatte reports in the Leesville Daily Leader that Louisiana is having a very hard time finding someone willing to serve as the state’s next commissioner of higher education. The problem is that the job is sort of terrible. As Deslatte writes: Wanted: Strong, well-educated and […]

On August 22 the Washington Post ran an editorial about American for-profit colleges. The Obama administration’s efforts to crack down on abuses of proprietary colleges, and the new gainful employment rule—under which colleges would be ineligible for federal financial aid if the average graduate needs to spend more than 8 percent of his starting salary […]

College costs go up for a variety of reasons. One is that state funding is declining. Administrative costs are also increasing. But these aren’t the only things that jack up college prices. It’s the dorms. As David Randall writes in Forbes: While there are obvious costs like annual upkeep and heating, the biggest single reason […]

Media doyenne Arianna Huffington has decided that college students aren’t getting enough sleep to function effectively. As she put it in the Huffington Post: This week, I loaded up a U-Haul van to take my youngest daughter to college for her freshman year…. It’s a big transition, not just for them but for their mom…. […]

The Huffington Post has compiled a photo essay of some American colleges that are really great. According to the introduction: We’ll begin at the Ivy League. The hallowed Northeastern enclave of schools has dominated rankings of best colleges for, well, as long as colleges have been ranked. But beyond the Ivy-clad hype, there exist many […]

Some people, not all of them affiliated with the for-profit education industry, are beginning to wonder if maybe all the latest focus on abuse at these schools actually obscures a greater problem: fraud and waste at regular colleges. According to an article by Daniel Bennett and Zac Bissonnette in Forbes: Instances of fraud and abuse […]

The University of Notre Dame fired a tenured engineering professor for inappropriate spending. Very inappropriate spending. According to an article by Margaret Fosmoe in the South Bend Tribune: University of Notre Dame officials say they fired a tenured professor because he spent more than $190,000 in research grant money and university funds on unauthorized equipment, […]