Daniel Luzer

In February the College Guide reported that for-profit Kaplan University was offering some of its courses to students in California community colleges. Well the concept is spreading. According to an article by Tracy Jan in the Boston Globe: Bristol Community College is teaming up with a for-profit education company [the Princeton Review] to offer classes […]

In 1998 the University of Texas system created the UT TeleCampus, a system to develop and administer online education. UT schools now offer about 2,400 online courses. TeleCampus is the central administrator of the program. Or at least it was. Inside Higher Ed reports that: The University of Texas System announced Thursday that it would […]

Despite the severe hit many American colleges are having due to the recession, most colleges with no-loans policies are sticking with their agreements. According to a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Despite speculation that other colleges would follow Dartmouth College and Williams College in cutting back or dropping their no-loans student-aid policies, a […]

Professors of anthropology, religious studies, and presumably the hard sciences are working on creating a new academic discipline, male studies. According to a piece by Jennifer Epstein in Inside Higher Ed, future male studies experts held what may be their first academic conference. Male studies is apparently different from men’s studies. As the article (sort […]

According to a sort of photo essay piece by Lindsay Dittman at the Huffington Post “the stars” too send their children to college: See a familiar face on campus? It might be Michael Jordan’s son, Tiger Woods’s niece or Stephen Spielberg’s daughter. Celebrity children need educations, too, and here is where some of them go […]

Education in Georgia: apparently still segregated. So charges the NAACP. According to an article by Jacqueline Holness for Courthouse News Service: The NAACP claims Georgia continues to have a two-track system of higher education, one for white students and a lesser one for blacks. The plaintiffs, which include students at Savannah State and Fort Valley […]

Does the United States place to much responsibility on community colleges? The New America Foundation’s Higher Ed Watch takes on this question with a guest post by Katie Haycock, president of the Education Trust and also the author of a January report blasting state universities for being overpriced and difficult for working-class Americans to access. […]

St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont is the latest American school to join those that don’t require the SATs for admission. According to an article in the Burlington Free Press: Students applying to St. Michael’s for admission in September 2011 may choose whether or not they want to submit scores from the SAT or ACT, […]

In February the San Francisco School Board decided to offer more ethnic studies courses in sity public schools. In an effort to be supportative, San Francisco State University’s dean of ethnic studies, Kenneth Monteiro offered to give ninth graders who passed courses in his department up to six San Francisco State credits. Well not so […]

For-profit colleges appear to be riding out the recession very well, according to the Department of Education. From Inside Higher Ed comes news that: Overall enrollments at postsecondary institutions… grew by 4.8 percent in the fall of 2008, nearly double the 2.6 percent increase from 2006 to 2007. The growth was almost certainly driven by […]