Daniel Luzer

For high school students whose families don’t think they can afford college, why not go to a community college and then transfer? According to an article by Jeannie Kever in the Houston Chronicle: [Starting college at a community college] may be the model of the future, as more students start at a community college, drawn […]

Which colleges are the best deals? Or, at any rate, what colleges are good returns on the amount someone pays to attend them? According to PayScale, a site that gathers data on salaries, the top five schools using a measure of college cost relative to average earnings of graduates are MIT, Cal Tech, Harvard, Harvey […]

The nation should spend more on higher education because that investment will result in economic growth. But what if the truth is a little more complicated? Jay Schalin writes in Clarion Call, a publication of the conservative John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, that the whole education results in economic growth mantra seems […]

Longtime West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd died Monday. The 92-year-old statesman will be greatly missed. He will not, however, be forgotten. Between 1991 and 2008 Byrd directed some $3.3 billion in federal appropriations to West Virginia. Some of this was actually hilarious, like the time his efforts put a Coast Guard operations center in Martinsburg, […]

Only because I also ridiculed Ann Curry for misidentifying the graduates of the school where she spoke in May do I feel this is appropriate to point out. In Sarah Palin’s controversial visit to California State University, Stanislaus this past weekend she spoke of one of her political heroes, Ronald Reagan, who served as governor […]

Do state colleges and state prisons really compete for money? Well, sort of. Emotions run high when considering this question, at least in part because college students are attractive and motivated and prisoners, in contrast, are rough and aggressive. Everyone wants his son to go to college; no one wants his son to go to […]

Oregon college students won’t be getting many need-based scholarships this next academic year. College isn’t any cheaper, and the students aren’t making any more money. Oregon’s just run out of money. So basically this means that if low-income students are looking to attend college they either go into debt or they just don’t go. What […]

Apparently even if one has a bachelor’s degree, vocational programs sometimes look attractive. According to a piece by Karen Birchard in the Chronicle of Higher Education: [Abdullah Muhaseen] enrolled in a public college to become a paramedic. The University of Toronto graduate is part of a growing trend in Canadian higher education. Driven in part […]

Indiana policymakers thought that more high school students might apply to college if they didn’t have to pay for it. So for one week in October, called College Go! Week, Indiana high school students could apply to any of the state’s colleges and universities without paying the application fee. It didn’t work out so well. […]

No one really knows what college really costs. And despite some efforts to figure this out, unless a student is from a very rich family, no one really knows how much his family is going to have to actually pay for college. This might change soon. According to an article by Lynn O’Shaughnessy at CBS […]