Daniel Luzer

To accompany the end of this year’s Vermont college graduations last weekend, the Burlington Free Press’s Tim Johnson writes an interesting piece about the true mystery of actually learning at the college level. As Johnson explains: In most colleges, students’ acquisition of knowledge is appraised regularly on a course- by-course basis via exams, graded projects. […]

Apparently now a college education is part of the college benefits package of some Wal-Mart employees. According to an article by Stephanie Clifford and Stephanie Rosenbloom in the New York Times: The partnership with American Public University, a for-profit school with about 70,000 online students, will allow some Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club employees to earn […]

A new study of college students indicates that about 20 percent of underage students sometimes drive cars while intoxicated. About 43 percent sometimes ride in cars driven by intoxicated people. Interestingly, this sort of behavior appears to go up when students reached legal drinking age at 21. About 25 percent of college students over 21 […]

After the resignation of super-bureaucrat Robert Shireman from the office of deputy undersecretary of education last month, many wondered who his successor might be. Shireman, notable for his assaults on for-profit colleges, was a divisive figure. According to an article by Kelly Field in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Shireman’s successor will be James Kvaal, […]

So now college graduates have begun the arduous, perhaps futile, effort to find entry-level professional positions across America. But without jobs they’ve got a lot of time on their hands. Why not consider what they should have majored in if they’d been savvier four years ago? Math probably would have been a good choice, at […]

The three-year bachelor’s degree may well be this year’s chief educational fad. First former education secretary Lamar Alexander touted it as the solution for higher education. Lately several colleges have actually started to adopt the three-year plan. Lately Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels decided that three-year college should become more common at his state schools. Well […]

With the economy seemingly in long-lasting freefall, and college graduates scrambling for employment, any employment, some American colleges are now looking to make their degrees align closer to actual work. According to an article by Lee Lawrence in the Christian Science Monitor: Their diplomas and transcripts, they will discover, often don’t tell employers and deans […]

If there’s a way to implement a policy in a corrupt manner, it seem like Illinois will do it. Tuition too high at public colleges? Illinois has a solution. From Stacy St. Clair and John Chase in the Chicago Tribune comes news that, Year after year, state Rep. Robert Molaro doled out publicly funded scholarships […]

It’s not just research universities; community colleges too generate income in their communities, sort of. According to an article by Bill Schackner in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A study released today by Community College of Allegheny County says the school gives the county a strong return on investment, generating nearly $10 in economic impact for every […]

While women’s colleges are popularly seen as finishing schools for the wealthy, many schools are now making a conscious effort to serve poor women in their communities. According to an article by Katie Zezima in the New York Times: A handful of small, private women’s colleges, including Alverno College in Milwaukee, the College of New […]