Daniel Luzer

Nevada higher education is, as College Guide has noted before, dealing with major funding problems. Today the Nevada Higher Education Chancellor, Dan Klaich, presented his new budget to the Board of Regents. According to an article by Lenita Powers in the Reno Gazette-Journal: The proposed budget… doesn’t include the 10 percent reduction Republican Gov. Jim […]

There was a lot of discussion in the media recently about one report detailing the rising administrative costs at American colleges. Well there are administrative costs and then there are “administrative costs.” It turns out that Mark Yudof, the otherwise exemplarily president of the University of California, racked up nearly $700,000 in personal housing expenses […]

The California community college system has ended its controversial plan to offer classes through Kaplan University, the Washington Post Company-owned for-profit college. In February Kaplan University and the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office announced that community college students could fulfill distribution requirement though discounted Kaplan courses. Last week, however, California Community Colleges’ vice chancellor of […]

Most Americans have some vague sense that they ought to be saving more to send their children to college. At least in part because of the way financial aid works, however, it’s hard to know exactly, or even vaguely, how much to save. Now there are answers. According to a piece by Jennifer Saranow Schultz […]

When former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin came to California earlier this summer to be the keynote speaker at a fundraising event for California State University, Stanislaus, California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown launched an investigation. Exactly how much was Palin getting paid to show up in Turlock, Calif.? What were the terms of her contract anyway? […]

Earlier this month the College Guide posted information about a recent report arguing that the high cost of college has a lot to do with vast increases in the cost of academic administration, or “administrative bloat,” as the term goes. “Unlike almost every other growing industry, higher education has not become more efficient,” complains the […]

Most of the institutions likely to be adversely affected by the Department of Education’s new gainful employment rules—under which vocational colleges 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—are for-profit schools. Not all of them, however. According to a […]

Washington, DC’s American University has chosen a new marketing slogan. According to an article by Meg Fowler in American’s student newspaper, The Eagle: After two years of research and discussion of what makes AU unique and reputable among hundreds of colleges and universities, a team of AU faculty, staff and students released a catch phrase […]

Earlier this month College Guide wrote about the strange case of Ethan Haines, an unemployed recent law school graduate who decided to go on a hunger strike to try and force law schools to be more transparent about debt and employment information for their graduates. While his tactic appeared a little ridiculous, many of the […]

The recession has caused parents to save more for college, though apparently it’s not working out so well. According to a piece by D.C. Denison in the Boston Globe: The number of parents who are saving to pay future college costs is up, but the percentage of costs those savings will cover is slipping down. […]