Daniel Luzer

College may be a little over-hyped, according to many detractors. But what should people do instead? According to an article by Jacques Steinberg in the New York Times: A small but influential group of economists and educators is pushing another pathway: for some students, no college at all. It’s time, they say, to develop credible […]

In a update to the story about strapped colleges and their desire for additional stimulus money, apparently it’s not happening yet. The Senate Appropriations Committee Thursday approved $58.8 billion in emergency spending for 2010. The committee provided no money, however, to keep people who work in colleges employed. In April the American Council on Education […]

Despite constituting some 15 percent of the U.S. population, it’s generally pretty hard to find any information about the ethnic group in U.S. college textbooks. According to an article by Scott Jaschik in Inside Higher Ed: It’s easy to make a case for the increasing importance of Latino issues in understanding U.S. politics. But are […]

College isn’t worth it. Joining the chorus of the college detractors, the Associated Press wonders if too many Americans are going to college, or something. According to the article: Growing numbers of experts are challenging the assumption that a four-year degree is essential for real success. Many economists and academics say more Americans should consider […]

In 2008 Kevin Mattson and Joseph Bernt complained in a piece they wrote for the American Association of University Professors that over the last decade college administrators’ salaries had grown to lavish proportions while faculty salaries stayed virtually the same. For colleges with annual budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars the costs of buildings, […]

It was probably around the time that my father got a Facebook fan page that I suspected it was all over. Dad graduated from college in 1972. Many of his fans are high school students, who haven’t yet attended college. It’s all very charming (“Mr. Luzer says having a Facebook fan page is like attending […]

The basic argument behind support for higher education has to do with the innovations that education can help create. Academic research cures disease, builds new technology and helps companies maximize efficiency. But how much of this is really true? What’s the relationship between technology and academia today? According to an article by Steve Kolowich in […]

Sometime in the distant future, historians may well write of the declining days of American power that around the second decade of the 21st century, people from all walks of life suddenly developed a puzzling and inexplicable interest in the mythical undead. Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight has spawned movies, parodies, and weird fan fiction. It’s now, […]

Despite a number of very, very good schools, and a strong public university system, there are some things, it turns out, Texas doesn’t do at all well. One of them is facilitate college graduation. According to an article by Reeve Hamilton in the Texas Tribune: For years, Texas universities have focused on getting more students, […]

Now that it’s college graduation season—and companies still aren’t really hiring—many journalists are looking at the debt college graduates carry. According to an article by Wayne Washington at Charleston, South Carolina’s Post and Courier: South Carolina ranks second among 11 Southern states in the average amount of debt its student-borrowers left school with in 2008, […]