Daniel Luzer

The Career College Association, the organization of American for-profit schools, has a new name. Yesterday CCA announced that it will now call itself the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities. According to the press release: “This vote culminates a rigorous, multistep review process,” said CCA President Harris N. Miller. “In voting the change, the […]

Many American colleges make money doing the very thing they often recommend their students avoid: putting kids into credit card debt. According to an article by Ben Protess and Jeannette Neumann in the Huffington Post: Some of the nation’s largest and most elite universities stand to gain millions of dollars from selling the names and […]

In January President Obama said in his state of the union address that “the best anti-poverty program around is a world-class education.” This may be true in an aggregate sense but it’s apparently not always true on a personal level. Despite attending college, many Americans are still pretty poor. According to an article by Sara […]

In one of the first and most significant legal cases about affirmative action, 1978’s Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, a white man sued the University of California after being denied admission to one of the university’s medical schools. Despite acceptable grades and test scores, Allan Bakke believed he wasn’t getting into medical […]

Educational television has been around for years. The United Kingdom’s Open University has broadcast full academic courses on television since 1971. In what is perhaps a natural extension of that learning-can-be-fun movement and the questionable belief that television can teach one’s children a great deal, one man is now attempting to create his own college-on […]

State funding traditionally supports public colleges based on enrollment numbers. That’s all well and good (more students cost more money) but many worry this situation doesn’t push colleges to improve. Why not support colleges based on graduation rates? The idea is that this would spur colleges to get better. Ohio is working on it. According […]

In the future will American colleges need to educate more students, make greater use of technology, or come up with new funding strategies? All of the above? According to an article by Joyce Jones in Diverse Issues in Higher Education, it looks like all issues are up for consideration: Speaking at a forum titled “Reinventing […]

Verifying the legitimacy of institutions of higher learning in the United States is a sort of trickle-down affair. Unlike in many countries the United States Department of Education doesn’t say whether or not a college is valid. Colleges and universities must be accredited by an Education Department-recognized body in order for students to take advantage […]

U.S. News & World Report, the magazine that annually publishes one of the country’s most influential college ratings, may make some minor changes in the methodology the magazine uses to rate schools. Robert Morse, director of data research for U.S. News, writes that for next year the magazine may include high school guidance counselors’ rankings […]

The Department of Education will soon issue new rules about for-profit schools. At issue is the infamous “gainful employment” rule. The rule, if instituted, would 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. According to an article […]