Daniel Luzer

Note to professors: In the aftermath of a campus shooting, DO NOT make jokes about gunning down your students. Campus security escorted East Stroudsburg University sociology professor Gloria Gadsden off campus on Wednesday after she posted comments on her Facebook page indicating she was thinking about killing her students. According to the Chronicle of Higher […]

Reduce student loan payments! Oh the lure of advertising. An article by Charles Dervarics in Diverse Issues in Higher Education touts income-based repayment of student loans as one of President Obama’s signature new initiatives. According to the article: While complex in execution, the idea has a simple premise: Students repay their loans based only on […]

Dallin Oaks, a senior leader of the church of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the former president of Brigham Young University, recently urged students at Harvard University to take a serious, deeper approach to religion. According to an article by Carrie Sheffield and Jamshid Askar in Salt Lake City’s Desert News: […]

Apparently with the economy what it is now, undergraduates are not so interested in majoring in business anymore. From the Sioux Falls Argus Leader comes news that: The percentage of freshmen planning on majoring in business fell from 16.8 percent in 2008 to 14.4 percent a year later. It hasn’t been that low since 1974, […]

Oddly, Amy Bishop is apparently still employed by the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The university has already suspended Bishop without pay, retroactive to Feb. 12, the day Bishop shot six colleagues. According to an article by Lee Roop in the Huntsville Times, Ray Garner, director of public affairs at UAHuntsville, said Thursday that “the […]

When Yale University announced its admission video, “Why I Choose Yale,” to the world last month, the dean of admissions, Jeff Brenzel, said “I expect that there will be parodies and attempts at imitation.” While actually the video appeared to produce mostly ridicule and disparagement, we’ve now got at least one attempt at imitation. On […]

Yesterday Secretary of Education Arne Duncan went before the House Budget Committee to explain the Obama administration’s new education budget. It went, um, well enough. This was the Hill, of course, so there was a lot of grandstanding going on. No one really seems to like the Duncan budget. Duncan’s department plans to increase spending […]

But not, well, in a bad way. A few colleges are now beginning to look at gay students as a way to increase school diversity. It’s common for students who are ethnic minorities to contact admitted freshmen to offer advice and push the school. Black high school students offered admission to highly selective colleges, for […]

Last year the Department of Defense started to offer education grants to military spouses. Spouses could take advantage of the Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts (MyCAA), which offered up to $6,000 a year for training programs or college. Well, never mind. The MyCAA Web site now informs military families that: Effective immediately, the MyCAA program […]

Americans United for Separation of Church and State is asking the Internal Revenue Service to examine Liberty University. Americans United contends that the school violated its tax-exempt standing when it appeared to publically support Scott Garrett, a Republican candidate for the Virginia state house. Garrett won the election by 209 votes and now represents Liberty […]