Daniel Luzer

Tuition freezes don’t work. The College Guide has suggested this for awhile. Some policymakers are finally coming around. John Wagner reports in the Washington Post that former Maryland governor Robert Ehrlich Jr. doesn’t support Maryland’s four-year freeze on public university tuition. Wagner writes: “The freeze hurt higher education,” Ehrlich said during an hourlong appearance on […]

While apparently students applying to the most selective schools often seem to apply to all of the most selective schools, a Connecticut newspaper reports that it works a little differently for students applying to other schools. In the Stamford Times, Danielle Capalbo writes that: David Bonner, a college counselor for King [School] seniors, said that […]

Apparently college isn’t always cheaper in Canada. When Montreal’s McGill University announced plans to raise tuition for its M.B.A. program, Quebec Province fought back. The cost of McGill’s M.B.A. is now about $1,700 a year. The school wants to increase tuition to the rather American price of $30,000 a year. According to an article by […]

Well this is awkward. Connecticut College, the small liberal arts school in New London, Connecticut, last year featured a student speaker at graduation. He was Peter St. John, tour guide, Senior Admission Fellow, and fellow in the school’s career guidance program, Conn College used St. John’s face in promotional materials. The school posted the video […]

Apparently when many high school students apply to college now they don’t just apply to the schools they actually want to attend, they basically apply to every possible school with any potential to admit them. Seriously. According to an article by Daniel de Vise in the Washington Post: Scott Yu applied to every college in […]

The federal government has new rules about unpaid internships. According to an article by Sara Lipka in the Chronicle of Higher Education: For interns to work for private companies without compensation, the Labor Department says, their positions must meet six criteria. First, “the internship, even though it includes actual operation of the facilities of the […]

A recent study of college students seems to show that tanning is addictive. According to an article on CNN: The researchers, using language similar to screening quizzes for alcohol and substance abuse, asked the respondents about their indoor tanning as well as their use of alcohol and other substances. They found that people who tanned […]

Joe Biden announced Tuesday that the Obama administration has changed the rules for compliance with Title IX, the 1972 law that prevents gender-based discrimination. The vice president announced the change at George Washington University. Writing for the Hatchet, the GW student newspaper, Hadas Gold reports that: Joe Biden spoke at the Smith Center Tuesday afternoon, […]

Mary Miller, an art history professor and the dean of Yale College, is apparently no damn fun. On Monday IvyGate’s Daniel D’Addario reports that Miller sent out an e-mail to campus expressing her annoyance with staged class pranks: As many of you have read in the Yale Daily News and some of you have experienced […]

The latest trend in higher education policy seems to be a worry about the rate at which Hispanic students complete college. Reporting for McClatchy, Danny Yadron writes that: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Monday that he wanted his department to help cut dropout rates and boost college enrollment for Hispanic Americans. Hispanics have started […]