Daniel Luzer

In some ways, it looks like proprietary schools are doing a better job educating Americans than community colleges. According to a recent report by the Parthenon Group, an international consulting firm specializing in business strategy: Based on years of deep work with individual school operators, together with broader sector research and partnerships with industry investors, […]

Above the Law, a tabloid blog about the legal profession, reports that because Loyola Law School graduates were having trouble finding jobs the school decided to make big changes. Big, though not necessarily very, well, legitimate ones. Apparently Loyola Dean’s Victor Gold sent the following email to the Loyola community: Last week the faculty approved […]

Investors are looking to create a new for-profit college, one targeted toward black students. According to an article in Inside Higher Ed: On Thursday, a new venture announced that it will seek to become a for-profit higher education company focused on serving black students. Officials were vague about how they would do so, but acknowledged […]

Apparently the fact that no one can afford college hasn’t deterred many, many high school students from applying to the country’s most exclusive ones. According to an article by Jacques Steinberg in the New York Times: Applications to elite private colleges rose again this academic year, despite the economic constraints on many families. As a […]

Franklin & Marshall, which always sort of sounded like a law firm, is not just a $40,000 a year college in Lancaster, Pa anymore. It’s also, oddly, a line of Italian clothing. According to an Associated Press article by Kathy Matheson: Franklin & Marshall the company was founded by a pair of entrepreneurs in Verona […]

So universities are strapped for cash, right? Colleges across the country have announced that they’re raising tuition, cutting financial aid, and freezing hiring due to the nasty recession. Well not everywhere, and not for everyone. Apparently some 26 percent of private college presidents took home raises of four percent or more last year. According to […]

While policymakers might be forgiven for failing to address this issue, apparently dropouts aren’t just a problem for high schools and colleges. By some accounts, in fact, 30 percent of people who start PhD programs never finish. Some academics apparently find this troublesome. According to an article by David Glenn in the Chronicle of Higher […]

Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced today that from now on college education, up to the PhD level, will be free for all U.S. Citizens. According to Duncan: The United States has become a nation of educational haves and have-nots. Tuition costs skyrocketed while real incomes have remained stagnant. Aid programs based on financial need have […]

Hudson University announces that birther Orly Taitz has been hired as a faculty member for its law school. She will occupy the Louise Lincoln Endowed Chair in Constitutional Law. According to Hudson Law School Dean Brockford Lingford: Taitz has already demonstrated her extraordinary leadership and legal acumen during her exemplary service as a public intellectual. […]

The George W. Bush Institute at Sweet Valley University denies that it ever had any dealings with George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States. According to Bush Institute Executive Director Peter Betterman: As the policy research arm of SVU, the Bush Institute undertakes serious, independent research in its areas of focus, in […]