Daniel Luzer

The most important component of U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings is the peer assessment of colleges. This is the survey of college personnel used to measure the reputation a college enjoys among its peers. The Washington Post reports that this year some administrators just refuse to play that game. According to an […]

In what looks to be a follow-up to his February speech about rising Chinese universities, Yale’s president, Richard Levin, has an interesting article in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs. Levin, an economist, looks critically at Asia’s newly prestigious universities. In the article (which requires a login) Levin explains that: [G]overnments in Asia understand that […]

Who controls financial aid? While for many families aid money literally determines whether or not their child will attend a given university, financial aid often seems arbitrary and confusing. Why is that? Well for the most part financial aid power in academic institutions is vested in one mid-level bureaucrat. A piece by Jacques Steinberg in […]

Apparently Florida has the highest private student loan delinquency rate in the country. According to an article in the Jackson, Miss. Clarion-Ledger: The delinquency rate in Mississippi was 9.09 percent, second only to Florida at 9.44 percent. Tennessee had the third highest rate at 9.07 percent. Accounts were defined as delinquent if they were 90 […]

Apparently the online fraternity is now no longer limited to that hilarious article in the Onion. According to a brief piece in Inside Higher Ed, Florida Institute of Technology has a new fraternity: Theta Omega Gamma, created this year by a sophomore, Darrek Battle, exists exclusively online, serving a membership of 24 fully online students. […]

College administrators apparently don’t want the Department of Labor regulating internships. They want to do it themselves. According to an article by Sara Lipka in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Thirteen college presidents urged the federal government this week not to set educational standards for students’ internships. [Northeastern University President Joseph] Aoun, whose institution is […]

The stock prices of several commercial education companies fell noticeably after a Department of Education official criticized the for-profit sector in a speech he gave at the meeting of the National Association of State Administrators and Supervisors of Private Schools in St. Paul, Minn. According to an article in Inside Higher Ed, Robert Shireman, deputy […]

The Towler Institute, an Italian “science research centre, art studio, conference venue, and cinema” owned by an accomplished British Scientist, Mike Towler, is hosting a conference in August. The institute invited Europe’s leading physicists. And then it uninvited several of them. According to an article by Matthew Reisz in Times Higher Education: Conference organiser Antony […]

Serena Golden over at Inside Higher Ed reports on a new book about college remediation, Jane Stanley’s The Rhetoric of Remediation: Negotiating Entitlement and Access to Higher Education. According to the Golden article: [E]veryone agrees that remediation is an expensive headache that, too often, drives students away before they ever reach credit-bearing courses. But those […]

Contrary to the recession discouraging families from sending their children to college, as some suggested, actually more students are coming to college than ever before. Sara Murray writes in the Wall Street Journal that: The share of new high-school graduates enrolled in college reached a record high last year, likely reflecting the weak job market […]