Daniel Luzer

The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), a civil rights group, is working to overturn the California state law that prohibits state universities from making admissions decisions using race. According to a New York Times piece: The group filed a class-action lawsuit on […]

There may soon be a limit on how much time students can spend at the University of Texas without attaining a bachelor’s degree. According to an Associated Press article in the Austin American-Statesman A task force on Tuesday recommended requiring students at the University of Texas to complete their bachelor’s degrees in 10 semesters or […]

Like a bankrupt duchess trying to raise money by turning her castle into a bed and breakfast, or like, well, the New York Times, Harvard University is trying to raise cash by selling its real estate. According to a piece by Shayndi Raice, Craig Karmin, and Shelly Banjo in the Wall Street Journal: Harvard University’s […]

Oh Williams. It is just two weeks after the exclusive Massachusetts school decided that it would discontinue its generous grants-only financial aid policy. Now Williams College has decided to do away with need-blind admissions for foreign students. According to a Tuesday letter to the Williams community from Interim President Bill Wagner: The process of setting […]

Students in eight states may be able to essentially skip the last two years of high school altogether and enroll in college early. According to an article by Sam Dillon in the New York Times: Dozens of public high schools in eight states will introduce a program next year allowing 10th graders who pass a […]

Americans are unhappy with college. Very unhappy. According to a Tamar Lewin piece in the New York Times: Most Americans believe that colleges today operate like businesses, concerned more with their bottom line than with the educational experience of students, according to a new study. And the proportion of people who hold that view has […]

Vermont legislators want more people to complete college. According to an article by Louis Porter in the Rutland Herald: A state panel has set an ambitious new goal of increasing to 60 percent by the year 2019 the number of Vermonters over age 25 who have completed two-year or four-year degrees. The target, set last […]

As College Guide readers surely know by now, student loan servicers are lobbying hard to lobbying hard to water down a bill that would change policy such that colleges would loan directly to students. Sallie Mae, the nation’s largest private student-loan provider, is one loan company particularly implicated in these lobbying efforts. Well apparently Sallie […]

College presidents tend not to be terribly attention-grabbing people. Mostly middle aged academics preoccupied with funding and the U.S. News and World Report rankings, these are not people who let their hair down much. With the possible exception of someone like Sir Patrick Stewart, college administrators are a boring lot. Unless, however, we’re talking about […]

West Virginia University at Parkersburg is trying to help students cut the cost of textbooks. According to an article by Michael Erb in the Parkersburg News and Sentinel: The college will be rolling out its first electronic open-source textbook this fall, written and developed by college instructors and available for the Kindle and other e-readers. […]