Daniel Luzer

Wary of another school shooting, Hamilton College is getting prepared. According to an article by Emerson Clarridge in the Utica Observer-Dispatch: Police officers wearing black helmets and armed with long guns hustled Tuesday morning to the exits of a building on the Hamilton College campus, where gunmen held hostages and had opened fire. But none […]

Often when journalists discuss the increased cost of tuition in the University of California system people end up reading a lot of stories about how Bill and Suzanne in Santa Barbara now have to pay more money to send their daughter to one of the UCs, which means they have to sell a vacation house […]

Despite the apparent long term trouble in the U.S. economy, the University of Phoenix seems to be one company that’s weathering the storm very well. According to a piece by Ben Miller at Education Sector’s the Quick and the Ed: The University of Phoenix became the first college in the history of the United States […]

Well, it’s official. It looks like the feeling people have about college value is starting to get worse. According to a piece by Sharalyn Hartwell in the Washington Examiner: The most educated generation in America’s history [is]… starting to question the value of a college education. A Country Financial survey released Tuesday found that only […]

Work-study jobs, federally funded positions to help students earn money working on campus, make up an important part of many students’ financial aid packages. This is how many earn spending money. Expect fewer of them next year. Because colleges have run out of economic stimulus money, about 160,000 fewer work-study funded jobs will be available […]

The job outlook for newly minted lawyers is getting worse. Back in January College Guide wrote that there simply aren’t enough legal jobs for all the lawyers the country produces. Today, according to a Wall Street Journal article by Jonnelle Marte, only 71 percent of the law class of 2009 have real legal jobs. This […]

The University of California system, wracked with state funding cuts, now has vague plans to offer an all-online bachelor’s degree in the future. According to an article by Daniel Wood in the Christian Science Monitor: The University of California – considered to be America’s top public university – hopes to become the country’s first top-tier […]

Many students are opting to take a year off before they start college. According to an article, “Worn-out students choose a timeout,” by Tracy Jan in the Boston Globe: As their peers comb through course catalogs, shop for extra-long twin sheets, and seek out future classmates on Facebook, a small but growing number of students […]

With the economy as it is many people are touting the benefits of community college for middle-class high school students. Earn some cheap credits and then transfer to the college of your dreams. Turns out it doesn’t really work out that well. According to an article by Dan McFeely in the Indianapolis Star: The community […]

Yale University recently discovered that, unexpectedly, it owned a rare painting by celebrated Spanish artist Diego Velazquez. This is the sort of random discovery that only a university with a vast art collection can make. According to an article by Jori Finkel in the Los Angeles Times: John Marciari [is] making the case that a […]