Daniel Luzer

Americans implicitly accept that higher education is a “good” thing. It’s just not always good enough to fund. This has interesting implications for the state of Nevada, which, while theoretically awash in cash from services and activities that only Nevada allows, now says it has run out of money for higher education. The state’s higher […]

Louisiana was allowed to spend millions of dollars worth of its federal stimulus money on higher education. The stimulus money came at a price, however. According to an article in the Times-Picayune: Last year’s federal economic stimulus package included money Louisiana can use this year and next to support higher education, but it was given […]

Academic tenure isn’t always job security, apparently. Last year Florida State University laid off 21 tenured faculty. Due to budget cuts in the Florida higher education system many schools have been making rigorous cost-cutting measures. But FSU has terminated more tenured professors than all other schools in the state system combined, according to an article […]

Vigilante neurobiologist Amy Bishop is probably insane, her lawyer, Roy W. Miller, suggested. ”Something’s wrong with this lady, OK?” Miller said in a news conference Friday. Bishop apparently does not remember the shooting incident last week and has expressed concern about whether or not she has been let go from the University of Alabama at […]

In an update to the story of the notorious liberalism of American colleges, Fox News has apparently discovered the Intercollegiate Studies Institute study proving that 1) college-educated Americans are liberal and, 2) college-educated Americans don’t know basic American civics. Gawker’s Richard Lawson posted a segment from Fox News in which conservative commentator Tucker Carlson “interprets” […]

It will now be a little harder for credit card companies to target college students. New limitations due to the Credit CARD (Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure) Act of 2009 will come into effect across colleges on Monday. The law, signed by President Obama in May, came about because of consumer worries about the level […]

The student government of the Community College of Allegheny County has approved the creation of a campus chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (CCAC), a national organization that promotes allowing college students, faculty, and staff to carry concealed weapons on campus. According to an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: David Hoovler, a CCAC […]

UC Berkeley may be legally barred from considering race in admissions, but that doesn’t mean race isn’t still very, very important at the school. An article in the San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Egelko indicates that California’s flagship public university just received a $16 million gift to promote diversity and racial studies on campus: The […]

On February 1 George Washington University sent out its welcome email to the students who had been admitted to the school under the early-decision program. Awkwardly, however, GW also sent congratulations emails to about 200 applicants who were not admitted to the school, according to an article in The Hatchet, the GW student newspaper. A […]

Students at the University of Colorado at Boulder held a funeral for higher education yesterday. According to a Denver 9 News piece about the event: We are gathered here today to mourn the death of something that is incredibly close to us all – our higher education,” said Hailee Koehler, director of legislative affairs for […]