Daniel Luzer

People who don’t go to college, or who don’t succeed there, indicate that the trouble may have something to do with the advice they received in high school. While the widespread use of guidance counselors in American high schools only dates from the 1960s, schools have become increasingly reliant on counselors’ services. But it isn’t […]

The new GI Bill, the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, has been a source of trouble since President Bush signed it into law two years ago. It contained plans that were supposed to do really astonishing things like exempt veterans from any out-of-pocket costs. But the program’s been run so inefficiently that veteran […]

Some 17 U.S. states have come together in an effort to increase college graduation rates. According to an Associated Press article in the New York Times: Led by Stan Jones, Indiana’s former commissioner for higher education, the nonprofit group, Complete College America, has raised $12 million in startup money from several nonprofit groups. Mr. Jones […]

Apparently the trouble with Brown University’s wealth doesn’t end with the slave trade endowment used to create the school back in 1764. Some Brown alumni and students are now really aggravated with President Ruth Simmons who, it turns out, is on the board of directors at Goldman Sachs, the investment and securities firm implicated in […]

After a year of controversy surrounding SUNY Binghamton’s move to Division I athletics, and after issuing a vague “mistakes were made” explanation two weeks ago, the school announced Monday that its basketball team will not be participating in the America East tournament in 2010. According to an article by Doug Schneider in the Binghamton Press […]

Back in 2006, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said that American colleges needed to be more transparent: “it is essential that clear, comprehensive and comparative data about colleges and universities be collected and made available to students, parents, and policymakers.” Colleges went to work on this, sort of. Private colleges produced U-CAN. Public colleges unveiled College […]

The racial tensions over at University of California, San Diego just got, well, odd. Last week the College Guide reported that on Feb 24 students walked out of a teach-in on racial issues that followed a controversy about a “life in the ghetto”-themed party students held off campus on Feb 15. The students said the […]

The College Guide has discussed the continuing fight over Obama’s proposed direct-lending program before. Lenders oppose the plan and have created an alternative proposal to keep the banks in the student lending business. Back in January the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the lenders’ Student Loan Community Proposal would save taxpayers $13 billion less over […]

It’s always been a little odd the way that there is only one U.S. federal department that uses its ineffectiveness as a major speaking point. No matter what’s going on in the news, the secretary of the treasury would never say the U.S. economic system is a failure. The secretary of defense would not say […]

To save money many city newspapers are now setting up programs so that journalism school students cover local affairs. Students at City University of New York, Indiana University, the College of Saint Rose, St. Cloud State University, Cal Berkeley, and the University of Florida already write for local papers. There’s a now a new program […]