Daniel Luzer

As many, many state universities face reduced funding from state governments, there’s a tendency for these struggling schools to focus on admitting more out-of-state students. College students from out of state pay more money, which looks like a tempting way to close budget gaps. While this can result in awkward rivalries between students, and interesting […]

A member of the board of governors of Missouri Southern State University has resigned following the revelation that he used the word “fag” in a meeting. A piece in the Joplin Globe by Greg Grisolano indicates that David Ansley resigned on Monday, explaining that: I have always thought of myself as a tolerant man. Yet […]

The president of Malone University, an evangelical Christian college in Canton, Ohio, has resigned. According to a press release from the college: Malone University President Gary W. Streit has announced his intention to retire from the position. The decision was reached in response to recent concerns about the use of unattributed materials in some of […]

For all the discussion about online colleges competing with traditional higher education, the current rival of online education is mostly the community college. The colleges types are both open admission, serve mostly low-income students, and pride themselves on offering convenient classes to busy, working adults. But community colleges, despite being dramatically cheaper than most online […]

The New York Times reports that Tufts University is now using YouTube in its admissions process: It is reading season at the Tufts University admissions office, time to plow through thousands of essays and transcripts and recommendations — and this year, for the first time, short YouTube videos that students could post to supplement their […]

Saint Mary’s, a women’s college across the street from the University of Notre Dame, announced that it will no longer allow Notre Dame to perform its annual comedy show on campus. The Keenan Revue is a provocative comedy show performed by a Notre Dame men’s dormitory every year in the auditorium at St. Mary’s College. […]

In an update to the case of SUNY Binghamton’s divisive athletic program, the Ithaca Journal reports that the university has issued an apology of sorts. In an email sent to the school, Binghamton President Lois DeFleur and Provost Mary Ann Swain said that: Our move to Division I was motivated by a desire to galvanize […]

America is annually treated to the president’s state of the union speech. Then there’s the response to the president’s state of the union speech. Most governors give yearly state of the state addresses. Apparently higher education has its own annual report of sorts. From the U.S. Student Association comes news of the annual State of […]

President Obama hired Arnie Duncan to be education secretary in part because Duncan would support dramatic changes in American education. Unlike someone like, say, Stanford School of Education’s incremental reformer Linda Darling-Hammond, Duncan was supposed to make people uncomfortable. Mission accomplished. Back in October Duncan said that education schools in the United States didn’t really […]

There’s now a tool to help community college students transfer to four-year schools. According to an article in Inside Higher Ed: CollegeFish.org… collects information provided by users, including “co-curricular interests, size of institution desired to attend, housing needs, financial need, GPA, anticipated course load, ability to relocate geographically, etc.” This information is then used in […]