Daniel Luzer

The public colleges of Utah are apparently spending more money on sports than ever before, despite also getting less funding from the state. According to an article by Paul Koepp in the Deseret News: [Utah’s college] officials [are] expressing little enthusiasm for cutting athletics programs even as their overall budgets saw a 12.5 percent decrease […]

Here’s one potential way to control the cost of college. According to an article by Josh Keller in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Universities must attack their growth in administrative spending by undertaking a thorough review of their business operations and convincing campus groups of the necessity of major restructuring, panelists from three prominent universities […]

A long-running component of the college costs discussion has to do with the price of textbooks. Books, which now cost some college students almost $900 a year, are particularly troublesome for students. Unlike the cost of, say, tuition students have to buy books right there, in the bookstore. Well there goes rent. Some critics of […]

Rutgers University will not be growing marijuana. Or, at any rate, it will not be growing marijuana on a large scale with the official sanction of the state of New Jersey. According to an article by Susan Livio at NewJersery.com: Gov. Chris Christie’s strategy to implement New Jersey’s controversial medical marijuana law was dealt a […]

A graduate student at Georgia’s Augusta State University, Jennifer Keeton, is suing her school for violating her rights to free speech and the free exercise of religion. According to an article by Laura Diamond in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Keeton is, accusing Augusta State University officials of violating her constitutional rights by ordering her to change […]

According to a fascinating piece by Peter Applebome in the New York Times, the State University of New York (SUNY) is trying to change. Like so many things about New York State—the prison system, the thruway, the economy—SUNY is gigantic and doesn’t really work very well. The university has constant funding battles with the state […]

The Department of Education’s release of new rules governing for-profit colleges has spurred a number of pieces about the proprietary schools. Most of the pieces are pretty critical. But the Wall Street Journal ran a piece by one defender of the industry, and this time it wasn’t the Career College Association’s Harris Miller. Henry Bienen […]

Ever since college students started living in dormitories, they’re had trouble with their roommates. Why does he still listen to Dave Matthews? Doesn’t he ever change his sheets? What’s with that creepy boyfriend she’s got back home? In general these things tend to work themselves out over time. But now, according to an article by […]

Because America’s for-profit colleges depend so heavily on federal largess, news from the U.S. Department of Education can matter a great deal for their stock prices. When Education deputy undersecretary Robert Shireman called out for profit schools by name for unsavory practices at a meeting in April, stock prices of education companies fell. When Shireman […]

Looks like just because students party all the time doesn’t mean their time in college doesn’t pay off. The Huffington Post recently ran a photo essay of 10 colleges that surprisingly pay off. HuffPo looked at the median salaries of party school alumni. The big winner here is the University of Texas, Austin, with an […]