Daniel Luzer

At what point will Americans just refuse to pay huge sums of money to attend college? It’s hard to tell but this does make for an interesting element to the “is college worth it” discussion. According to an article by Richard Vedder in Forbes: A recession and an education industry all but oblivious to price […]

The Yale secret society Skull and Bones does not have to return the remains of the Apache warrior Geronimo to his descendents for proper burial. According to an article in the New Haven Register: The lawsuit was filed last year in Washington, D.C., by 20 descendants [of Geronimo] who want to rebury Geronimo near his […]

Education Management Corporation, the company that owns for-profit colleges including Argosy University, Brown Mackie College, and Fullerton, California’s Western State University College of Law, is apparently having a bang-up fiscal quarter. According to an article by Joan Solsman in the Wall Street Journal: [The company’s] fiscal fourth-quarter earnings more than doubled as the for-profit higher […]

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley wants to end open admissions at the city’s community colleges. According to an article by Fran Spielman at the Chicago Sun-Times: Daley said Tuesday he wants to close the “open-door” admissions policy at Chicago City Colleges, arguing that remedial classes for students who can’t cut it carry a $30 million price […]

National Collegiate Athletic Association rules prohibit college athletes from betting on their own performance. But the field is apparently wide open for academic games of chance. According to an article by Jason Thomas in the Indianapolis Star: Indiana University students have a new incentive to cram for exams: They can make money on their performance […]

America’s pet turncoat, right-wing public intellectual David Horowitz, is—surprise—encouraging conservative college students to be officially troublesome. According to a piece in Inside Higher Ed: Horowitz is calling his new effort the “Adopt a Dissenting Book Campaign.” He is asking students to approach faculty members who endorse one side of a particular issue in their courses […]

People occasionally bemoan the fact that America’s colleges (like its churches) are except from property taxes. But becoming a regular, tax-paying company might actually financially benefit a college or two. According to an article by Chris Knape in the Grand Rapids Press: Grand Valley State typically doesn’t pay taxes. But, in an effort to help […]

The University of Virginia has decided (in 2010?) that it’s time to do away with landline telephones in student dormitories. According to an Associated Press article in the Virginian-Pilot: The University of Virginia has removed about 3,850 land-line telephones from residence halls in a move that will save $500,000 annually. The removal of the telephones […]

Many policymakers have now developed an interesting fixation on student finances. Maybe college students need classes about how to manage their money. According to an article by Taya Flores in Indiana’s Journal & Courier, one Purdue professor explained that college, “[Is] a turning point in their life where they can take some news skills and […]

More in Playboy-related news. Because apparently that’s becoming a regular part of this blog or something. The University of Central Florida was a little embarrassed last when a photo of a Playboy playmate, Shanna McLaughlin (Miss July 2010), appeared posed in a UCF locker room in very revealing clothes on the cover of a local […]