Daniel Luzer

The money associated with President Obama’s somewhat controversial Nobel Prize will go mostly to fund college scholarships. All Nobel Prize awards come with a $1.4 million check. The White House announced yesterday that charities receiving the Nobel money include the Posse Foundation, the United Negro College Fund, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the Appalachian Leadership and […]

This news might be of some interest to America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): A study by Cornell University doctoral student Joshua Price indicates that having a black instructor in the sciences makes black students more likely to actually follow through and graduate from college with degrees in math or science. An article by […]

Earlier this week I wrote that Democrats may attempt to get changes to the student loan industry in place by making their student loan reform part of the health care legislation. Well never mind. The New York Times’ David Herszenhorn reports that: Democrats in the Senate… predicted on Wednesday night that the education bill would […]

Since 2008 Dartmouth College’s center for the arts has hosted the annual Dartmouth Idol contest. Based on the television show American Idol Dartmouth Idol is a singing competition in which students compete to be judged the school’s most talented singer. Unlike on the show, winning the Dartmouth Idol contest carries no implied promise of pop […]

I guess this really shouldn’t be that big a surprise. The proliferation of online colleges has naturally spurred the growth of things affiliated with colleges. There are now online coffee shops and bars. Now there are online student clubs. From an Inside Higher Ed article by Steve Kolowich comes news that: At a handful of […]

Given that many already say state universities fail in their mission to educate students at low cost why not just, well, give up the project altogether? As Christine Vestal at the Pew Center on the States’ Stateline puts it: Why not change the arrangement and require big-name universities to responsibility for their own financing, leaving […]

Daniel Higgins, a 46-year-old California man, apparently ran a complicated scheme for seven years whereby he traveled around schools in Southern California taking examinations. Higgins allegedly ran a business where foreign students paid him to take classes to allow students to maintain their student visas. According to an article by Anna Gorman and My-Thuan Tran […]

Student government, the resume fodder of so many future law school students, often seems a little silly. Student government has so little authority over actual university governance that there’s a lot of worry about things like campus activities and student rights. In most cases, however, the power of student government mostly begins and ends with […]

At the annual meeting of the American Council on Education yesterday in Phoenix Hillary Pennington of the Gates Foundation announced that Gates plans to grant $3.6 million to expand the Academy for College Excellence program at several community colleges. According to an article by Scott Jaschik at Inside Higher Ed: The academy concept, similar in […]

The University of Texas at Austin announced today that it has acquired the papers of David Foster Wallace, the author who committed suicide in 2008. According to the UT press release: Highlights include handwritten notes and drafts of his critically acclaimed “Infinite Jest,” the earliest appearance of his signature “David Foster Wallace” on “Viking Poem,” […]