Daniel Luzer

One of the primary measures of college effectiveness in America is a school’s graduation rate. A high graduation rate in a normal period of time (say four to six years) means a school is doing all right. Low graduation means something is wrong. Well not everyone agrees with this measure. As Morton Marcus writes in […]

In what surely serves as a nice reprieve from Ithaca Death Watch 2010, Cornell University has astounded many sports fans and alumni by advancing to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA men’s basketball finals and will play the University of Kentucky tonight. This is surprising news from a school not exactly known for its athletic […]

Update on Coultergate: apparently she wimped out. Conservative pundit was scheduled to speak at the University of Ottawa on Tuesday night. Anticipating her arrival, a school administrator sent Coulter a letter last week instructing her to use “restraint, respect and consideration” when coming to Ottawa. Well she never got to the point where restraint was […]

In an apparent reaction to the recent suicide surge at Cornell University, the school has apparently decided to take precautions. It’s closing off the bridges. According to an article by Michael Linhorst in the Cornell Daily Sun: The University is constructing temporary fencing on several bridges around campus this week after three Cornell students are […]

Many tout early college as a great way to get students motivated and earning college credits. Early college, which blends secondary school with higher ed by giving high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to attend and earn credits in college, is supposed to help kids advance quickly into college. “As a nation, we just […]

There’s an update to the Supreme Court case involving Francisco Espinosa, the airline ramp agent who tried to get rid of the interest on his student loans when he filed for bankruptcy in 1992. Espinosa has won his case, but his win doesn’t appear to have many implications for the rest of student lending. According […]

Doug Lederman has an interesting piece in Inside Higher Ed today giving a rundown of the winners and losers in the student loan reforms going on in Congress now. No big surprises here. The winners include the Obama administration, Low-income students, and historically black colleges. The losers include private lenders, online courses, state officials, and […]

Florida Career College is a for-profit school with nine locations throughout the sunshine state. FCC offers twelve academic/career programs. None of them, incidentally, are English composition. Miami-Dade’s WSVN reports that FCC had a billboard in Hollywood, Fla with a big mistake: The billboard was supposed to say, “It’s never too late to start your career.” […]

So New York University has essentially announced its plans to totally take over New York City. According to a New York Times article by Robin Pogrebin: New York University is proposing the largest expansion in its history, with a new tower on Bleecker Street and three million square feet of new classrooms, dormitories and offices […]

Lansing Community College has a new program guaranteeing that graduates will get a job. Beginning in May Lansing students studying for careers as pharmacy technician associates, customer service specialists, or industrial quality inspectors. The program is called “Get a Skill, Get a Job.” The three subjects are the pilot programs. The community college produced this […]