Daniel Luzer

Apparently Bryan College wasn’t good enough. Conservative pundit Glenn Beck is apparently opening his own university. My buddy Adam Weinstein over at Mother Jones gives a funny rundown of course offerings he’d like to see (“Let’s do some educatin’! Yee haw!”) at Beck’s school next fall. Weinstein’s ideas for course titles include: Offerings include “Mythology […]

Community colleges have apparently not been helped dramatically by money for job retraining. According to an article by Marisa Schultz in the Detroit News: When Gov. Jennifer Granholm launched the No Worker Left Behind program in August 2007, she stood alongside the presidents of the state’s community colleges, which were to be the proving grounds […]

George Washington University will no longer be providing housekeeping services to its students in freshman dorms. According to an article by Eric Katz in the student newspaper, The Hatchet: Freshmen will no longer receive housekeeping services in their residence halls, the director of GW Housing Programs confirmed in June, much to the irritation of some […]

The terms for student loans just got a little better. According to an article by Kim Clark in the Chicago Tribune: Now that the hype surrounding the government’s overhaul of the scandal-tinged federal student loan program has settled, students and parents seeking loans for the 2010-11 academic year are getting some good news: Many federal […]

Call it a tribute to the late Robert Byrd. On Wednesday House Democratic leaders introduced a plan to move funding for Pell Grants into a bill that supplies emergency money for disaster relief and the wars. According to the press release issued by the Appropriations Committee: The House of Representatives will act on the 2010 […]

The for-profit, online University of Phoenix will now require students to attend an orientation program. According to an article by Dawn Gilbertson in the Arizona Republic: The free three-week program will be mandatory for new students with fewer than 24 college credits. The Phoenix-based company has been testing the free three-week program in undisclosed cities […]

Thanks to the hearings on for-profit schools organized by the Senate education committee and the anticipated “gainful employment” ruling from the Department of Education many policymakers are now considering the costs and benefits of America’s for-profit schools. Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) said in a speech at the National Press Club yesterday: There is growing concern […]

In response to an unfortunate series of racial events at the University of California, San Diego last semester—which began with a ghetto-themed party held in an exclusive neighborhood off-campus and ended with a noose in the library—some worried that less black students would enroll at the school for the fall semester. Well, crisis averted. According […]

Can students legally compel parents to pay their tuition? Apparently they can if there’s a contract. According to an article by Christian Nolan in the Connecticut Law Tribune: Dana Soderberg… went to court to force her father to live up to a deal to pay her tuition at Southern Connecticut State University. Dana came from […]

The worst sentence of the year is in. The winner of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest at San Jose State University is writer Molly Ringle of Seattle, Washington. The BLFC is sponsored by the English Department at San Jose State. Contestants are told to “to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible […]