Daniel Luzer

The Department of Education’s delay on making a decision about how much debt students at for-profit schools can assume may benefit for-profit schools. The government’s decision to hold off on strict for-profit rules may have caused stock prices to rise. According to a Reuters article: Shares of most U.S. education companies like Apollo Group Inc […]

Despite, or perhaps because of, the recession Americans still keep going to college. In fact, the six percent increase in college enrollment in 2008 was the largest increase in 40 years. According to an Associated Press article by Hope Yen: Newly released government figures show that freshman enrollment surged 6 percent in 2008 to a […]

The federal stimulus has apparently been very beneficial to for-profit colleges. According to an article by Jeremy Redmon and John Perry in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Massage and beauty schools, online universities and other for-profit colleges in Georgia and across the nation are cashing in on federal stimulus spending, collecting $2.2 billion in tuition grants for […]

When Florida student Anastasia Megan, completed her state’s required high-school courses through homeschooling, she tried to enroll at Lake-Sumter Community College to continue her education. Her application was rejected. It wasn’t that LSCC objected to the homeschooling, however. The problem was that Megan was 13 years old. According to an article by Martin Comas in […]

The somewhat regrettably named high school student Yale Fan will not actually be attending Yale. This might not be such a big deal if he were matriculating at, say, Berkeley or Swarthmore. But no, he’s going to Harvard. According to a piece in Ivy Gate: For Yale Fan, 18, it’s just his name. And, of […]

The University of Illinois may be very, very short on cash this year. According to an article by Kerry Lester in the Daily Herald: Illinois’ premier public university may be owed as much as $700 million from the state by year’s end, threatening its “entire financial underpinning,” its president told a group of regional business […]

Many of America’s evangelical Christian colleges are increasingly attracted to online education. According to an article by Steve Kolowich in USA Today: The question facing universities looking to compete in the booming market for online higher education is not so much how to do it, but how to distinguish themselves from the rest. In this, […]

The Department of Education announced yesterday that it has not yet made a decision about “gainful employment,” the controversial proposal to make for-profit schools ineligible for federal financial aid if average graduates need to spend more than 8 percent of starting salaries to pay off student loans over 10 years. The department announced new student-aid […]

In an effort to help students help secure jobs upon graduation, the University of Iowa recently created an undergraduate Certificate in Leadership Studies program. The program begins in the fall. According to an article in the Chicago Tribune: Kelley Ashby is director of the Career Leadership Academy at the school’s career center, which will administer […]

Apparently the continuing recession is causing some college graduates to flock to jobs as skilled laborers. According to an article by Carol Morello in the Washington Post: In a region in which 47 percent of Washington area residents have a college degree, the highest rate in the nation, [Adam] Osielski is among a… growing number […]