Daniel Luzer

Prisoners are anxious to get college degrees, too. From Oklahoma comes news of a surprisingly interest in higher education. According to an article by Sara Plummer in Tulsa World: About 40 offenders are enrolled in college courses this summer in both minimum- and medium-security units, and that number will rise to more than 100 in […]

Sallie Mae, the publicly-traded corporation that makes money servicing more than $180 billion worth of student debt, is considering getting out of the whole education loan business altogether. According to an article by Mark DeCambre in the New York Post: Sallie Mae… has tapped Goldman Sachs to help it consider a possible breakup of the […]

Yesterday Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed a bill to change his state’s colleges, a little bit. According to an article in the Boston Globe: Governor Deval Patrick signed a bill today that rebrands the state’s nine public colleges as universities. Supporters of the bill say the change will enable schools to earn more grants, draw […]

There’s an update to the truly weird case of a Mississippi community college student suspended from a course for swearing, outside of class. It’s all over. On March 29, 2010, Isaac Rosenbloom, an emergency medical technician and student at Hinds Community College in Pearl, Miss., stayed after class with several other students to speak with […]

Apparently some Ohio state schools are so cash strapped that they’ve decided to outsource crucial functions. Crucial functions like photocopying. According to an Associated Press article in Community College Week: Cuyahoga Community College said Xerox Corp. will operate its campus copy centers and provide new copying and printing equipment, following a similar move by Cleveland […]

There’s not going to be enough money to fully fund Pell Grants, the government program that provides money to help low-income students to attend college. According to an article by Jennifer Epstein in Inside Higher Ed: The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies approved a bill that provides […]

The Ivy League, the world often forgets, is actually an athletic conference. It often isn’t much of an athletic conference, but still. It’s very rare that graduates of any school in the league end up playing professional sports. Rare, but not impossible. According to an article by Jorge Castillo in the Washington Post: After eight […]

This is sort of entertaining. Rasmussen College, a for-profit college with branches all over the Midwest, features recipes for different varieties of Ramen Noodles on its website. This is part of the institution’s “survival guide.” As the guide explains: Going to college requires a lot of your time, which doesn’t allow you to cook your […]

One New Jersey college, Hackettstown’s Centenary College, maintained MBA programs in Beijing, Shanghai and Taiwan. Earlier this month Centenary announced it was shutting down the whole enterprise, because a “review revealed evidence of widespread plagiarism among other issues, at a level that ordinarily would have resulted in students’ immediate dismissal from the college,” according to […]

Wonder what Ward Connerly would make of this one. Apparently one Indian college, Bangalore University, will now reserve one place in each academic department for a transgender student. According to an article in The Hindu: A historic decision to reserve one seat each in its 52 postgraduate departments for transgenders… were among the key resolutions […]