Daniel Luzer

According to an article in the New York Times, a neurobiologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville opened fire in a faculty meeting yesterday: On Friday, Amy Bishop presided over her regular neuroscience class before going to a biology faculty meeting, where she sat quietly for about 30 or 40 minutes, said one University […]

Well this is gauche. On Wednesday Blinn College police arrested Bill Damuth, women’s basketball coach at Trinity Valley Community College after a game between the two schools in Schulenburg, Texas. According to an article in the Huffington Post: Bill Damuth was freed from Washington County Jail on $1,500 bond Thursday, a day after Blinn College […]

As the College Guide has pointed out before, Nevada higher education is kinda of screwed. The state now has a budget gap of 20 percent and the state university system needs to cut about $110 million in order to operate next year. This makes it incredibly difficult for Nevada Higher Education Chancellor Dan Klaich to […]

The governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon, recently tried to change the state’s scholarship system. But the state’s higher education board announced it was opposed to Nixon’s legislation, saying in effect that the scholarship was set up under the current formula for a reason. According to an Associated Press article by David Lieb in the Columbia […]

Recently two exclusive American colleges, Williams and Dartmouth, ended their short-lived policies of offering only grants for financial aid. So far the move back to student loans has ended with these schools but, according to an Associated Press article by Eric Gorski in USA Today, other colleges are feeling pressure to change some aspects of […]

The University of Wisconsin at Madison doesn’t have to say who gave it $15 million for a new music building. According to an Associated Press article in the La Crosse Tribune: Dane County Circuit Court Judge Peter Anderson ruled last week that… lawyers cannot question the donors, and that the university does not have to […]

The University of Iowa has apparently decided that a student-run organization will not be allowed to show pornographic films on campus this coming weekend. According to an article by B.A. Morelli in the Iowa City Press-Citizen: The Bijou Theater, based in the Iowa Memorial Union, had scheduled midnight Friday and Saturday showings of a 1970s […]

Sometimes colleges eliminate academic majors to save money. The University of Louisiana abolished philosophy. Michigan State killed classics. Well now Baker University, a private school in Baldwin City, Kansas, has taken the radical step of ending five subjects. According to an article in the Lawrence Journal-World: The move takes effect in the fall semester of […]

Many colleges were able to stay open last year due to the stimulus package. According to an article by Jack Stripling at Inside Higher Ed: As enrollments soared and state dollars dried up, the temporary fix of federal stimulus money staved off significant financial losses for higher education that are still yet to be fully […]

There’s an update to the story of the low scoring on Advanced Placement examinations. According to an article by Tamar Lewin at the New York Times: According to a College Board report, about 800,000 public high school seniors in last May’s graduating class, or 26.5 percent of the class, took an A.P. exam at some […]