Daniel Luzer

After University of California, San Diego students held a Feb 15 party off-campus (the “Compton Cookout“) that mocked poor black people, and Black History Month, the university held a teach-in Wednesday designed to promote tolerance. Not good enough, said students. Larry Gordon of the Los Angeles Times reports that hundreds of students walked out of […]

As a part of President Obama’s American Graduation Initiative, he set a goal that the United States would have the highest college graduation rate of any nation in the world by 2020. He also set a goal of producing an additional 5 million community college graduates in the next ten years. While American colleges have […]

A tea party may be coming soon to a campus near you. This comes from an article today by David Moltz in Inside Higher Ed. Moltz reports that: One Tea Party group in New Jersey is questioning Warren County Community College’s plans to open a satellite campus, meant to accommodate the institution’s burgeoning enrollment in […]

Well this is meta. From DIY Learning, an online guide to higher education, comes a ranking of the rankings of sorts. DIY has compiled a list of the “Top 50 College Rankings Blogs.” While it’s a little unclear what factors DIY used to determine which guides were the best, according to DIY the Washington Monthly’s […]

The University of Mississippi will be getting a new mascot. Students voted 2,510 to 856 on Tuesday this week to replace Colonel Rebel, the mascot the school removed in 2003. Colonel Reb was the traditional mascot of Ole Miss. Traditional doesn’t actually mean old in this case, however. While the University of Mississippi was founded […]

Administrators at the University of California, Merced have banned a student, Irene Tang, from exhibiting her piece at the school’s Bobcat Family Art Show. The school called the pictures of Merced Chancellor Steve Kang displayed in Tang’s work “distasteful and disrespectful.” Tang “explains” her piece in the affiliated multimedia component here: Tang says, “my piece […]

More news about faith in colleges. The Catholic News Agency reports that the results of higher education on religious beliefs are mixed: College professors were more likely than the general population to think that the Ten Commandments are totally irrelevant and to disagree that the Bible is the Word of God, but they were also […]

The rising cost of college, particularly in this year’s round of state university financing, might become a problem not just for students and families paying for college. College costs might prevent the country from achieving its national education goals, like continuing to lead in scientific research and getting more people to college. A paper by […]

An article by Ramesh Ponnuru in Time makes the case that too many people are going to college. Joining the ranks of other college limiters Ponnuru explains that just because college graduates earn, on average, more than those who don’t attend college is not necessarily a good enough reason to expand college access: Our high […]

The March/April 2010 issue of the Washington Monthly is now live. There are a number of interesting features in this issue. Michael Bobelian’s “DNA’s Dirty Little Secret” looks at how DNA technology is now putting people in prison. Our cover story, “Who Broke America’s Jobs Machine?,” by Barry C. Lynn and Phillip Longman, argues that […]