Daniel Luzer

The board of trustees at Quincy College, a community college about ten miles southwest of Boston, finds itself unable to hire a new president. According to an article by Jack Encarnacao in the The Patriot Ledger: For the third time, Quincy College’s governing board has canceled a meeting at which the legality of its vote […]

India may soon have a new, and very old, university. According to an article by James Lamont in the Financial Times (requires login): One of the world’s oldest universities – Nalanda, in the impoverished Indian state of Bihar – is to be refounded… fulfilling the dreams of scholars from India, Singapore, China, and Japan. India’s […]

The U.S. Government Accountability Office found that recruiting violations are apparently quite serious across for-profit colleges. According to an article by Daniel de Vise in the Washington Post: The… study used undercover investigators to pose as applicants at 15 for-profit colleges around the nation. Congress had asked the agency to determine whether the sector, which […]

New York State isn’t moving so quickly on higher education reform, whatever shape it’ll eventually take. According to a piece by Nick Reisman at The Journal News: Senate Democrats yanked a measure twice today that would grant more powers for the state’s public colleges today and the second time around they lost GOP votes in […]

Staten Island’s Wagner College will no longer require applicants to submit SAT scores for admission to the college. The college explained its decision, which will apply beginning in the fall of 2010: We believe that the best predictor of a student’s potential to succeed at Wagner is the student’s high school transcript. Our process is […]

A male college student has the option of attending one of two holiday parties. One of these parties will take place at the Playboy Mansion. The other one will occur at the corporate headquarters of the Princeton Review, in a suburban office building in Framingham, Massachusetts. Knowing no other information, which party will he attend? […]

Rather than wasting countless hours sending in essays to apply for $2,000 scholarships for people of Armenian descent, or whatever, why not just start your own? Some students are doing just that, soliciting donations for college over the Internet. According to an article by Kim Clark in U.S. News & World Report: A growing number […]

This is a fascinating picture I found recently, on this website, about what colleges want to do with their websites vs. what people actually go to college websites to do. I have nothing to add. I couldn’t have put it better.

Apparently the for-profit education sector has some new allies. According to an article by Jennifer Epstein in Inside Higher Ed: Just a few hours after the U.S. Department of Education released the full text of its proposed regulations to define “gainful employment” last Friday, two groups that rarely weigh in on education issues circulated news […]

Some students and faculty at the University of California, Berkeley object to Cal’s relationship to oil giant BP. The company somewhat controversially gave Berkeley $500 million to fund energy research back 2007. According to an Associated Press article in the San Francisco Chronicle: On Friday, a group of activists staged an anti-BP demonstration next to […]