Daniel Luzer

Despite a vast increase in the amount of financial aid available, and a longstanding perception many Americans have of the importance of diversity in a college community, there still aren’t many low-income students graduating from college. Why is that? California State University, Channel Islands administrator Gary Berg takes a look at this issue in his […]

Erstwhile university administrator Donald Trump is apparently very annoyed with real university administrator Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia University. Before Columbia’s $6.3 billion plan to take over a large section of Harlem for Columbia’s use went through, the school was negotiating with Donald Trump to buy some Trump land on the Upper West Side […]

With all the discussion about how there’s currently too much remediation going on in American colleges, some high schools are looking to combat the problem head on. One Ohio school district thinks the answer is to make all students take more demanding courses. According to an article by Brett Nuckles in the Columbus Local News: […]

The latest issue of the Washington Monthly is now live. There are a number of interesting features in this issue. Our cover story, Mariah Blake’s “Dirty Medicine,” addresses way that group purchasing organizations undermine medical safety and increase cost. Another feature, James Verini’s “Show Him the Money,” looks at how the U.S. Chamber of Commerce […]

An unconventional lecture given by an associate professor of strategy at the United States Naval War College, Karl Walling, got him placed on academic leave. A video of the lecture circulated on YouTube. The school explained that Walling’s May lecture on Niccolo Machiavelli’s views on the goddess Fortuna were degrading to women. The lecture also […]

The Obama administration does not like profit. That’s according to Andrew Ferguson, who writes in the Weekly Standard that, You can never be sure when or why one industry or another will draw the attention of the Mr. Fixits of our federal government. Just imagine: There you are, Mr. or Ms. Businessperson, walking along, making […]

While most people interested in education have some vague concern about the potential of technology, it’s a little unclear if more tech really helps learning. Technological innovations in education can, in theory, make education cheaper and more effective. Bad technological innovations, however, can make education both more expensive and more impersonal. This is precisely the […]

Students study less now than they used to. According to an article by Keith O’Brien in the Boston Globe: New research, conducted by two California economics professors, shows that over the past five decades, the number of hours that the average college student studies each week has been steadily dropping. According to time-use surveys analyzed […]

When small colleges have financial problems one popular tactic to save the school is to sell out and become a part of a for-profit educational company. This strategy allows the school to benefit from the company’s resources. The company can take advantage of the school’s highly-coveted regional accreditation. But sometimes this doesn’t work out. According […]

With all of the discussions about student debt and the trouble recent graduates have finding a job, it’s easy to miss what may be the people struggling most in the American university system: adjunct professors. As Pablo Eisenberg, a senior fellow at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, writes in the Huffington Post: American universities and […]