Daniel Luzer

Now it’s not just the colleges themselves that will be dealing with accrediation changes. In an effort to help other colleges avoid an unfortunate situation like that at Brandies University, the American Association of Museums recently announced new accreditation standards, for university art museums. In order to be accredited the museum will now need specific […]

This is going to be major fuel for critics of traditional colleges like Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and the for-profiteers. A new study by the nonprofit Delta Cost Project demonstrates that American colleges are spending less of their money on actual education and more on administration and recreation. The study also shows that American colleges […]

The price of college can be dramatically different depending on where in the country a student lives. With this in mind, for purely financial reasons it’s best not to live in Idaho. According to an article by Bill Roberts in the Idaho Statesman: Students are leaving the University of Idaho and Boise State University with […]

It’s not just for-profit schools worried about the 13 new federal rules for colleges. Jennifer Gonzalez writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education that traditional public and private colleges also worry about how they will fare under new Department of Education guidlines. According to Gonzalez: …The set of 13 proposed regulations the department unveiled last […]

To piggy back on the media coverage following conservative figure Glenn Beck’s unveiling his own pseudo-university, the Huffington Post recently featured a photo essay by Natalie Sudikoff and Ariel Doctoroff looking at colleges started by famous people. Amusing institutions of higher learning include Bootsy Collins’s Funk University, Fred Turner’s Hamburger University, Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, […]

Stephen Burd, author of the Monthly’s November/December feature,”The Subprime Student Loan Racket,” on the for-profit college industry, had an interesting piece up yesterday on the New America Foundation blog about the lobbying strategies of proprietary schools. Using an internal strategy memo from the Career College Association he obtained, Burd says that, The strategy memo provides […]

Arizona’s draconian immigration law is really the gift that keeps on giving, at least in terms of higher education. MidAmerica Nazarene University, a 1,700-student evangelical Christian college in Olathe, Kansas, planned to host an immigration discussion on July 13th. MidAmerica Nazarene decided to call off the event. According to an article by Meredith Rodriguez in […]

There was a time, back in those glory days of strong unions and guaranteed pensions, in which people commonly held jobs in which their employers would pay for them to go back to school to attain the college degrees they needed to grow and improve their companies. These days are pretty much over, but a […]

It’s pretty obvious by now that lots of states are having trouble funding public universities. Central Washington University emeritus professor Corwin King has a solution. In an editorial in the Seattle Times King writes that public universities should be funded as a basic state service: As we move from a manufacturing- to a knowledge-based society, […]

In another take on why more low-income students don’t graduate from college, Monica Potts in the American Prospect points out that, While about 60 percent of low-income students enter a post-secondary program at some point, only about 11 percent earn a degree. High-achieving low-income students would benefit by a system that helps them get into […]