Daniel Luzer

Investigation into the crypt of the Skulls, the ultra-exclusive secret society at Camden College, reveals that the society does possess a skull. The society has long been rumored to own the remains of the head of Geronimo, the Apache chief and medicine man who died in 1909 while a prisoner of the United States at […]

Eight American universities have announced the formation of a new athletic league: the Creeper Conference. According to Maguire University athletic director Carl Levine, whose school is a member of the league: Well we figured that since our schools are making a deliberate effort to invade the territory occupied by the Ivy League, which is an […]

There is an update to the story of Southeastern University’s collapse that Education Sector’s Kevin Carey wrote for the March/April issue of the Monthly. It turns out that, rather like the undead, Washington, D.C.’s Southeastern doesn’t actually need to be a viable, living institution to continue to cause problems. Carey wrote on the Ed sector […]

Education Secretary Arne Duncan wants the United States to know that the changes engineered by the student lending reform bill signed by President Obama on Tuesday as part of the healthcare reform act are great. According to an article by Leah Finnegan in the Huffington Post: “This is a $60 billion investment to make higher […]

So old people are right. It turns out readers don’t learn information very well when they view it on computer screens. According to an article by Jill Laster in the Chronicle of Higher Education: A study at Arizona State University has found that students had lower reading comprehension of scrolling online material than they did […]

So actor James Franco might be going to Yale. He’s apparently been admitted to the PhD program in English at the school. According to an article in the Yale Herald: James Franco, star of Milk, Pineapple Express and the Spider-Man movies, is coming to Yale for PhD in English after getting his MFA at Columbia. […]

In another one of those “let’s eliminate a couple majors to save money” plans, the University of Maine is proposing cutting a lot of liberal arts majors. According to an article by Jessica Bloch in the Bangor Daily News: More than 200 concerned University of Maine students and faculty members questioned the school’s academic administrators […]

Some students at Trinity University, a San Antonio, Texas school founded by Presbyterians in 1869, want the school take “our Lord” off their diplomas. According to an article by Melissa Ludwig in the San Antonio Express-News: “A diploma is a very personal item, and people want to proudly display it in their offices and homes,” […]

California State University, Stanislaus, wanted a famous-name speaker who could generate a lot of attention at the small school in the San Joaquin Valley. Stanislaus State was hosting a fundraiser in June and students and faculty supported the idea of doing anything to raise a few hundred thousand for the college, which has about 6,000 […]

Community colleges missed a big opportunity with the healthcare reform bill. As an NPR story by Alan Greenblatt noted, in failing to provide money to support Barack Obama’s American Graduation Initiative, Congress missed the opportunity to make colleges work better: The health reconciliation bill that passed Thursday included major changes in higher education policy, but […]