Daniel Luzer

I guess the music video worked. Jacques Steinberg writes in the New York Times that Yale’s freshman class next fall will include Kenny, Martina, Ray and Carol Crouch. Yale admitted the quadruplets to the school in December under early admission. According to the Steinberg article, all four said yes: The family decided that… [the Yale […]

On Tuesday the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and the Lumina Foundation for Education hosted a debate about the future of higher education. Four college administrators, DeVry Inc.’s Daniel Hamburger, University System of Maryland Chancellor William Kirwan, Yale University’s Richard Levin, and LaGuardia Community College’s Gail Mellow, debated whether or not the […]

Apparently Northern Arizona University recently figured out it was important for students to attend class. So now the school has a highly technological way for teachers to take attendance. According to an article by Anne Ryman in the Arizona Republic: Northern Arizona University will install an electronic system that detects when each student with an […]

Ward Connerly, prominent conservative and former member of the University of California Board of Regents, is very annoyed, again. Connerly writes in Minding the Campus, the higher education blog of the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research that he’s losing respect for the regents for their failure to stand up for principle. In the wake […]

The bottom may have fellen out of the market for law school graduates. Ameet Sachdev writes in the Chicago Tribune that: Double-digit tuition increases in the last 25 years have priced law schools out of reach for many. Yet the promise of a career at a big law firm with its six-figure paychecks kept boosting […]

Reed College, the tiny (1,442 students) and incredibly academically rigorous school in Portland, Ore., has an annual festival called Renn Fayre. Renn Fayre begins when students hand in their theses to the registrar and then burn their notes accumulated during the year. Then Reed has a weekend of intense partying, traditionally accompanied by a very […]

A voice instructor at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif., Louis Lebherz, was reprimanded after using the original lyrics of “Old Man River” in a voice class in March. According to an article by Matt Krupnick in the Contra Costa Times: College leaders said Monday the incident called into question Louis Lebherz’s future at the […]

California: your Master Plan for Higher Education is dead. Seriously. In 1959, state lawmakers asked the regents of the University of California and the state’s Board of Education for an education plan. What they came up with promised an essentially free education at the University of California, California State University or a community college for […]

It’s apparently become much more common in recent years for students to transfer between colleges. Apparently about one third of people who’ve been admitted to college will eventually graduate from a different college. What factors whether students successfully transfer? According to a piece in Inside Higher Ed, it depends on the institution. Scott Jaschik writes […]

Not only do black students have lower college graduation rates than other students, they also appear to owe more money when they do graduate. According to an article by Ashley Marchand in the Chronicle of Higher Education: A report released today by the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center… said that students who borrow the […]