Daniel Luzer

It’s now April, the time of year when many high school seniors are getting acceptance and rejection letters to college. Adele Scheele says not to worry about it, writing in the Huffington Post that where one goes to college doesn’t really matter. As she says in “Does Where You Go to College Really Matter?”: Most […]

Much of the discussion about race on college campus tends to focus on simple statistics. What percent of students are minorities? What’s the average debt carried by minority college graduates? But new research indicates that a lot of the existing research on race and diversity in colleges is sort of superficial. According to an article […]

The College Guide has looked at remediation, the non-credit-bearing classes college students have to take to be prepared for college, in previous posts. The trouble is that remediation doesn’t really work, or doesn’t work for much other than a metaphor for how unprepared students are for college. Just taking a remedial course makes a student […]

More evidence that the recession is leading students to community colleges. An article in the Boston Globe reports that more students than ever are enrolled in the Community College of Rhode Island: College officials say this spring’s enrollment is the second highest in school history, with 17,200 students in credit courses across four campuses, and […]

Officials at Marymount College, a Jesuit school in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, are frustrated by local bureaucrats’ delays in granting approval for the colleges plan to build a new library, gym, and dormitories. So, according to an article by Jeff Gottlieb in the Los Angeles Times: Angry at what it says is the agonizingly slow […]

The recession is hard on both people and institutions. As endowments decline, colleges struggle to continue operating while reducing expenses. It’s sort of conventional wisdom that colleges reduce financial aid in such trying times. It turns out that the truth is a little more complicated. A piece by Jacob Goldstein at NPR reveals that: A […]

The average four-year private college in the United States now costs $26,273 a year. How did this happen. Well according to a short piece by Anya Kamenetz in New York magazine the mounting price of college has a lot to do with increasingly resort-like facilities at college campuses. From the article: It wasn’t always this […]

Online courses are the wave of the future. It’s apparently now official. Well, sort of. The Obama administration originally planned to spend $500 million to help community colleges on develop quality online courses. According to a piece by Marc Parry at the Chronicle of Higher Education: Pressed for details on Monday, Hal Plotkin, a senior […]

The recession has brought many more traditional-aged college students to community colleges. While this trend has long been a rumor in the press, a Washington Post article by Michelle Davis reveals that: As the economy continues to falter, job losses rack up and families’ savings dwindle, more students who saw themselves going directly from high […]

Most colleges require students to have health care when they enroll. If a student is not on his parents’ plan he essentially has to enroll in the healthcare plan offered by the school. The trouble is that it turns out most of those plans are kind of terrible. According to an article by Sara Lipka […]