Daniel Luzer

American college students study less than they used to. According to an NPR piece by Jacob Goldstein: The amount of time college students spent studying fell from 40 hours per week in 1960 to 27 hours per week in 2003, a new study found. There are lots of non-slacker reasons for this to be the […]

In an update to the Washington Post story about college ratings, Dana Chivvis at AOL News writes that this time of year brings out major critics of the college ratings game: “[To] say that there’s one best college … is completely asinine. There’s no such thing as one best college,” Lloyd Thacker, director of the […]

In the aftermath of the tragic death of University of Virginia senior Yeardley Love, a lacrosse player, on May 3, the school will move on. According to an article by Michael Phillips in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: The Virginia men’s lacrosse team, ranked No. 1 nationally, held practice yesterday morning, a day after Director of Athletics […]

In higher education coverage this story is almost an evergreen, but Michael Horn had an interesting piece in the Washington Times about the future of higher education funding. According to Horn: Rather than ask how we can enable more students to afford higher education, we must shift the question to ask how we can make […]

Syracuse University is apparently very forward-looking. In January the school decided to extend benefits to employees’ same-sex partners. In March Syracuse appointed a pagan chaplain. Well now the university is reaching out into online marketing. According to an article on Mashable by Lauren Indvik: Syracuse University has purchased six-month subscriptions to Brand-Yourself.com’s online reputation management […]

Is it kind of amazing or is it a nightmare to have a professor who’s in a band? Inside Higher Ed reports that four California academics have a rock band called Glass Wave. Inspired by a line in Ezra Pound’s “Cantos,” the band’s moniker is consistent with its modus operandi: writing rock songs based on […]

When Vest Virginia began the West Virginia PROMISE Scholarship in 2001, the stated goal of the program was to keep more people in West Virginia once they graduated from college. A merit scholarship funded by video lottery revenue, PROMISE provides $4,750 a year to qualified West Virginia students who choose to attend college within West […]

Reflecting growing concern about the manner in which for-profit colleges operate, the Obama administration is moving forward with plans for new rules governing them. According to an article by John Hechinger, Daniel Golden, and John Lauerman in Businessweek: The Obama Administration is gearing up to produce tougher regulations that may reduce the amount of federal […]

State laws permitting illegal immigrants to take advantage of in-state tuition at public universities don’t seem to have fueled an increase in the number of illegal immigrants actually enrolled. According to an article by Andrea Fuller in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Ten states have passed laws allowing such students who live in the state […]

Apparently minority students compelled to take the ACT (the standardized test for college admissions that rivals the more popular SAT) see performance improvements over time. According to an article by Peter Galuszka in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: Academics are trying to assess how using the ACT test affects students and schools. Data is incomplete, […]