Daniel Luzer

It’s official: community colleges have more students and less money than ever before. While there’s been convincing anecdotal evidence that American community colleges are flooded with the unemployed, according to an article by Doug Lederman in Inside Higher Ed: The survey of 128 community college district chancellors and campus presidents, conducted for the second year […]

Maryland state legislators are threatening to withhold funds from the state’s public law school because of a lawsuit filed by one of the school’s legal clinics . According to an article by Annie Linskey and Timothy Wheeler in the Baltimore Sun: A suit by the University of Maryland’s environmental law clinic that accuses poultry giant […]

Minnesota-based student lending company Educational Credit Management Corporation, which guarantees student loans and also serves as U.S. Department of Education’s designated provider for bankruptcy services, has lost information about 3.3 million students debtors. According to the company’s press release, ECMC: Had a theft occur from its headquarters the weekend of March 20-21, involving portable media […]

Apparently drinking a whole lot may not matter much even if a student has a test the next day. From Boston University’s School of Public Health comes news that: Researchers from the BU School of Public Health and Brown University have found that surprisingly, binge drinking the night before a test does not impact college […]

According to an article by Matthew Miller in the Lansing State Journal, despite a lot of money available for unemployed workers to gain new skills, most of them aren’t able to attend school to do so. Laid off workers mostly need retraining to be qualified for the jobs that do and will exist. Except that, […]

According to an article by Margaret Fosmoe in the South Bend Tribune, Indiana students are taking a lot of remedial courses: About 70 percent of Ivy Tech students statewide require at least one non-credit remedial math or language arts class before moving on to courses for college credit. Indiana’s Commission for Higher Education has started […]

In what is surely one of the more creative ways to save money, the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay has chosen to change its e-mail type font. According to an Associated Press article about the matter: The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has switched the default font on its e-mail system from Arial to Century […]

Berea College has always been a little unconventional. A small school (1,514) in central Kentucky, it was the first coeducational, racially integrated school in the American south. Berea doesn’t charge tuition and all students are required to 10 hours a week in service jobs on campus. Now Berea President Larry Shinn is trying to change […]

Maybe non-traditional, older students are the key to improving American higher education. According to an article by Cassie Chew in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: President Barack Obama’s goal to increase the number of two- or four-year degree holding Americans by 2020 will require significant investments in educating nontraditional-aged college students, a U.S. Education Department […]

New rules proposed by the Department of Education would essentially require institutions of higher learning to keep student debt payments below 8 percent of students’ gross income. This makes some proprietary schools very unhappy. According to an article by Allison Sherry in the Denver Post: For-profit officials say the proposed rules are too harsh and […]