Daniel Luzer

A group of students from for-profit schools now have a grassroots organization so they can advocate for their interests. Students for Academic Choice recently elected its first president, Dawn Connor, a 33-year-old Wisconsin student. The term “grassroots” is a matter of debate, however. According to an Associated Press article by Eric Gorski: Standing closely behind […]

Despite continuing unemployment, the United States is actually not producing enough people with the certificates and training needed for growing jobs. According to an article by Jacques Steinberg in the New York Times: The number of jobs requiring at least a two-year associate’s degree will outpace the number of people qualified to fill those positions […]

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke apparently thinks that community colleges are very important. They might even fix the economy. According to an article in Community College Times: Innovative workforce development programs at community colleges can play an important role in meeting employers’ demands as the labor market recovers, according to… Bernanke. “Community colleges have the […]

Through a strange component of the state of California’s education plan, students attending state schools don’t actually pay tuition. They pay “education fees.” That may change soon. According to an article by Larry Gordon in the Los Angeles Times: The state’s renowned master plan for higher education, which in 1960 established separate roles for the […]

Why should a professor teach one class if he can simultaneously teach three or four? That’s that latest news from Pittsburgh where, according to an article by Bill Schackner in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Leaders of Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities want more of their students to enroll in collaborative degree programs that would rely on courses […]

The story of students who attend for-profit schools like the University of Phoenix, Kaplan University, and Everest University often goes something like this: as a high school student he didn’t excel. He came from a family without much money. His parents didn’t go to college. After high school he bounced around, attending a few branch […]

The new GI Bill is turning out to be a lot different from the first one. This time around most veterans are using their money to go to for-profit schools and community colleges. According to an article by Michael Sewall in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Advocates of the Post-9/11 bill, which was enacted in […]

Yes, just because it’s an online college doesn’t mean it’s for profit. Republican Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels last week created a new university, almost entirely online. According to an article by Dan McFeely in the Indiana Star: …Daniels today signed an executive order creating an Indiana branch of Western Governors University. WGU Indiana will be […]

Prospects look grim for the nation’s 15 million unemployed, according to a recent jobs report from the Labor Department. Yet lawmakers in Washington, gripped by deficit fears, haven’t found the votes for even a modest stimulus package. In the May/June issue of the Washington Monthly, Jamie Merisotis and Stan Jones offered a plan to help […]

The U.S. Senate is preparing for a round of hearings about American for-profit schools and their policies. According to a press release by the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, who is chairman of the committee, announced that HELP will begin to hold hearings about for-profit schools […]