Daniel Luzer

The College Guide has written before about the importance of a college’s endowment and the hard decisions colleges have made due to financial meltdown and financial crisis beginning in 2007. It looks like the collapse of endowment payouts might actually be the fault of college endowment managers, however. According to a paper released yesterday by […]

Stephen Burd, the author of the Monthly’s November/December feature,“The Subprime Student Loan Racket,” recently wrote a new piece on for-profit schools. In an article called “The Art of Spin Career-College Style,” he wrote for the New America Foundation’s blog, Burd argues that it’s time to think seriously about incentive compensation. This an illegal practice in […]

Despite the high cost of college and the clear need many American have for financial aid, apparently students don’t collect millions worth of federal higher education money every year. According to an article by David Moltz in Inside Higher Ed: Community college students are less likely than their four-year counterparts to complete the Free Application […]

Online colleges have clubs, football teams, and even fraternities (sort of). Now one school apparently has a special online graduation, too. According to a piece in Business Wire: Strayer University, a leading adult higher education institution that offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, today launched its online commencement ceremony for the Class of 2010. The virtual […]

With Sen. Arlen Specter’s (D-PA) primary defeat on Tuesday night, the country loses a major advocate for research and education. Specter was particularly good at securing research money, particularly for medical research. While the winner of the primary, Joe Sestak, will, if elected, probably vote more or less the same way Specter did, there’s no […]

With all the worry today over the high cost of college textbooks, the internet looked like something of a solution. Go online. Order the textbook online, pay with your credit card, and three days later it’s at your door. Bookstores don’t have to order the books in advance. The system generally seemed to work out […]

Wow, Harvard has managed a whole lot of really bad press in the last year. But this is like the plot from a bad movie. According to an article by Tracy Jan and Milton Valencia in the Boston Globe: A disheveled [Adam] Wheeler, who has been in custody since he was arrested at his parents’ […]

In an effort to try and destroy the much-feared “gainful employment” rule the administration proposed for the for-profit education industry, for-profit colleges and their lobbyists are hard at work. According to a piece by Goldie Blumenstyk and Kelly Field in the Chronicle of Higher Education: For-profit colleges… have gone on a lobbying and public-relations blitz, […]

College graduation rates are too low. This idea is extremely important in all discussions of higher education policy. It’s also true. Only about 57 percent of college students graduate within six years of starting college. What’s more, while about 59 percent of white students finish in six years, only 51 percent of Hispanics, and 42 […]

The contemporary fountain pen was apparently invented in the late 1820s by Romanian Petrache Poenaru. Studying in Paris, he needed something that would save him time while he took notes. How far the world has come. Apparently the using a red pen causes teachers to grade harshly, or something. According to an article by Tom […]