Daniel Luzer

Louisiana may become the first state in the country to institute a new funding structure for its public universities. According to an article by John Pope in the Times-Picayune: With a statewide [college] graduation rate of 42.5 percent, Louisiana has plenty of room for improvement. Only three states — New Mexico, Nevada and Alaska — […]

Student fees: so easy to create, so hard to kill. Student activity fees are the bills charged to students at a school, in addition to normal tuition, to pay for non-academic groups and programs. At least in Georgia, it turns out that the schools often use these fees in somewhat questionable ways. According to an […]

The idea of taxing colleges is now apparently no longer confined to one ill-conceived budget plan in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. According to an article by Doug Lederman at Inside Higher Ed: The Internal Revenue Service is focusing mostly on issues related to executive compensation and payment (or non-payment) of tax on unrelated business income in more […]

Several University of Utah student journalists may not graduate due to a prank they pulled in the last edition of the student paper. According to an article by Jesse Fruhwirth in the Salt Lake City Weekly: Nine University of Utah graduating seniors and former staff members of the Daily Utah Chronicle received an e-mail alerting […]

How much does that degree pay, anyway? While it’s still unclear how much one’s undergraduate major really matters in the long run—is it the college or the course of study that matters most in terms of pay?—each year, PayScale, a Seattle-based company that specializes in compensation and job market data, releases list of starting salaries […]

As the school year ends students at the University of Colorado at Boulder. And local Boulder residents, sensibly, reuse some of the students’ discarded stuff. Well no more, says the university. According to an article by Laura Snider in Boulder, Colorado’s Daily Camera: This year, CU police are cracking down on Dumpster divers by posting […]

It used to be that the academic waiting list, in which students are told that they might be able to attend a college they applied to if enough people who were actually admitted decide not to go, was confined to America’s relatively selective schools. Apparently not anymore. Adam Lisberg and Meredith Kolodner of the New […]

In the aftermath of the news that the Washington Post Company is planning to sell its ailing and unprofitable Newsweek magazine, NPR had a piece recently on Washington Post Co.’s other business line, Kaplan University. According to the story, on NPR’s All Things Considered: The [Washington Post] Company is surprisingly profitable because of a shrewd […]

America’s military academies, including the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, the U. S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado are tuition-free colleges that […]

The Obama administration announced months ago that it planned to change federal education policy such that public schools were measured such that students graduated from high school “college and career ready.” While no one seems to know quite what this means, at least some organizations are trying to figure it out. According to an article […]