Daniel Luzer

Thanks to one pair of student activists, Stanford University may change some of its investment strategies. According to an article by Katharine Mieskowski in the New York Times: Stanford University, an incubator for dozens of Silicon Valley companies, has become the focus of a grass-roots effort to pressure the technology industry to crack down on […]

Rutgers University employees will not get scheduled raises this year. According to an article by Kelly Heyboer in the Star-Ledger Rutgers… will cancel scheduled pay raises and freeze the salaries of its 13,000 employees as it faces an “extreme fiscal crisis” brought on by state budget cuts, school officials said today. “Our union colleagues are […]

The only finalist for the presidency of Seton Hall University, a Catholic college in South Orange, New Jersey, has withdrawn. According to an article by Kelly Heyboer and Jeff Diamant in the Star-Ledger: “I’ll be withdrawing my candidacy,” Monsignor Stuart Swetland, professor of Christian ethics at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Maryland, told The Star-Ledger. […]

At what point might it make sense to make real changes to Affirmative Action? Century Foundation Senior Fellow Richard Kahlenberg has an interesting piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the future of college admissions, specifically with regard to race and income. As he explains: I outlined some forthcoming research which suggests that affirmative […]

Any day now America will know what the Department of Education has decided to do about gainful employment, the hotly debated proposal that would render 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. For profit schools cry that […]

This sort of thing never moves much from year to year, but using recent Census data, the Huffington’s Post has a list of the top states in terms of the college education. About 38 percent of U.S. adults have graduated from college. The states with the have the highest proportion of college graduates among populations […]

It happens rarely, but it does happen. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has banned Portland State University from playing postseason games because of athletes’ low grades. According to an article by David Moltz in Inside Higher Ed: The men’s basketball team at Portland State University becomes only the fourth team in NCAA history to suffer […]

Students at California State University at Los Angeles were very annoyed when budget cuts led the school to cut back library hours. Now the library closes at 8 PM. That is, after all, where students like to study, particularly during finals. And so, according to an article an article by Carla Rivera in the Los […]

Increasingly American colleges and universities promote diversity and manage affirmative action programs through the use of administrators specifically charged with those tasks. They’re the chief diversity officers, of CDOs. According to an article by Reginald Stuart in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: From large private schools, like Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, to rural state […]

Interesting news out of Louisiana. From an article by Jan Moller in the Times-Picayune comes news that: A bill that would give home-school diplomas the same weight as high school degrees earned by private-school students is nearing final passage in the Legislature after a House committee gave its unanimous endorsement on Tuesday. Republican Louisiana state […]