Daniel Luzer

Alabama’s Prepaid Affordable College Tuition (PACT) plan was supposed to work like this: Alabama families would save money for college under a structured plan. That structured plan would exert pressure on Alabama state colleges to keep tuition down. The state would supposedly cover tuition no matter how much it expanded. The theory is that it […]

One Michigan professor is very, very mad about the way universities reward academics. Another eccentric egghead? Well maybe. But this time, some people are paying attention. According to an article by David Glenn in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Last October, Madhukar Vable said farewell to two teaching prizes that he had won a decade […]

Another private college is becoming a for-profit. As Inside Higher Ed’s Scott Jaschik reports: Dana College, a small Lutheran liberal arts institution in Nebraska, announced Tuesday evening that it is being sold to a new for-profit company. The sale comes just a year after another Lutheran institution, Waldorf College in Iowa, was sold to a […]

All U.S. states and the federal government information about the economy and the job market, but neither is apparently very good about sharing this information with community colleges, the group of institutions that might most benefit from this information. According to an article by Matthew Dembicki in Community College Times: [Workforce] the data is not […]

Cornell University is trying very hard to counter the perception that it’s a “suicide school.” According to an article by Jennifer Epstein at Inside Higher Ed, in the wake of a recent suicide: The university has stationed police officers and security guards on all of the bridges that cross Cornell’s gorges, and extended the hours […]

Last year the consulting firm BearingPoint filed for bankruptcy. U.S. bankruptcy law allows creditors to reclaim to some of the money companies spent in the two years before bankruptcy began. This means BearingPoint’s creditors are going after Yale. According to an article by Edvard Pettersson in Business Week: The liquidation trustee for BearingPoint Inc., the […]

The American Graduation Initiative, President Obama’s plan to get an additional 5 million community college graduates in the next ten years and build a country with the highest college graduation rate in the world by 2020, was ambitious. To accomplish it, Obama planned to invest $12 billion in American community colleges. Obama explains his initiative […]

Facing a situation where the Nevada state university system needs to raise about $110 million in order to operate next year, the state’s governor, Jim Gibbons, has a solution. He’s decided to create an education “task force.” According to an article by David McGrath Schwartz in the Las Vegas Sun: Three classroom teachers, Democratic and […]

The research and initiative generated by American universities can help stimulate local economies, probably. The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at SUNY Albany recently released a study, “A New Paradigm for Economic Development,” indicating that: Universities play a key role in the new economy. Universities across the country are taking leading roles in their […]

Two weeks ago thousands of people, mostly organized by student and labor groups, staged walkouts and teach-ins across California to protest state budget cuts and increased fees throughout California’s education system. Called a “Day of Action for Public Education,” the event’s organizers were protesting several things. The chief complaint, however, was the November decision by […]