Daniel Luzer

Many, many college students in Tennessee apparently benefit a great deal from the state’s HOPE Scholarship, which is funded by the state lottery. According to an article by Tom Smith in the Times Daily: Since the lottery began in January 2004, $1.77 billion has been raised for education, according to Kym Gerlock, vice president of […]

August is college ranking season. In my rush to put up our own annual ranking, I missed another new release of America’s “best” colleges. On Sunday Parade, the national Sunday magazine distributed to more than 400 newspapers in the United States, came out with its own directory of America’s top colleges. Parade’s favorite small public […]

The Apollo Group, the $2.7 billion company that owns the University of Phoenix and other for-profit schools, has announced some changes in the way it plans to do business in the future. According to the company’s recently-released investor report: We’ve implemented a series of additional student protections including financial literacy tools such as our Responsible […]

Just sending more people to college may not be the answer. According to a piece by Marsha Mercer in the Winston-Salem Journal: President Obama wants to raise the number of college grads by 8 million by 2020 “because America has to have the highest share of graduates compared to every other nation.” But do we, […]

Back in March the Berkeley student senate demanded that the university “divest from companies that provide military support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine.” It doesn’t appear that the University of California, Berkeley has actually divested from anything so far. Well Harvard actually did it, perhaps to avoid Berkeley-style awkwardness. According to an IvyGate piece […]

The potential for online delivery to improve educational quality is debatable, but virtual education does have the advantage of at least delivering more content to more people. If a college can deliver course material online, all one really needs to take the course is a laptop. Well, unless you have any significant disabilities. According to […]

A Tennessee judge has determined that, no matter what its financial situation, Fisk University cannot sell its art collection to pay bills. According to an article in ArtInfo: A Nashville judge rejected Fisk University’s proposal to sell a half-share of its collection to the Arkansas Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art for $30 million, further […]

An alumna of Stephens College, an all-female college in Columbia, Missouri, plans to give $1 million to her alma mater. What prompted this generosity, especially at a time when many are cutting back on their charitable contributions? Apparently, she thinks her school is too fat. According to an article by Janese Silvey in the Columbia […]

As students around the country begin their freshman year of college, many schools have found that they actually need to find creative ways to separate students from their parents, officially. According to an article by Trip Cabriel in the New York Times: As the latest wave of superinvolved parents delivers its children to college, institutions […]

Guess who’s most likely to finish college? Oddly and surprisingly, it’s heavy Facebook users. According to an article by Brian X. Chen in Wired Those obnoxious Facebook users who collect friends like stamps and post a status update every other minute are more likely to stick it through college than less active users, a recent […]