Daniel Luzer

As the College Guide reported last week, student loan corporations are lobbying hard to prevent direct lending, arguing that the change in student loans will put Americans out of work. Well not that many Americans. According to an article in the Scranton Times-Tribune: The industry contends that the direct loan program would cost jobs, including […]

According to an article in Business Week the Gates Foundation has essentially announced its support for online education strategies: In his 2010 annual letter, recently posted to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation website, Bill Gates makes a pretty strong case for incorporating different elements of the Internet — specifically, online video and interactive lessons […]

Students at John Carroll University, a Jesuit college in Cleveland Ohio, staged a sit-in on February 3 during a break in the school’s basketball game against Mount Union College. The John Carroll students were protesting the university’s decisions not to include the protection of sexual orientation of in its anti-discrimination statement. Watch a video of […]

The University of Southern California (USC) has given a middle-school football quarterback from Bear, Delaware an athletic scholarship. The Wilmington News-Journal reports that: Friday morning was like no other for [David] Sills, the 13-year-old seventh-grader at Red Lion Christian Academy who Thursday night sent shockwaves through the sports world. Sills had made verbal commitment to […]

Some American colleges are now using Spanish-language recruiting materials to make their schools more attractive to Latino students. An Associated Press article in the Washington Post reports that: Some venerable East Coast universities are trying to ease that burden – and tap the booming pool of Hispanic students – by offering Spanish translations of their […]

Like many, many other states West Virginia is trying to save money running its state university system. Earlier the College Guide reported that West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin wanted to freeze tuition at public colleges. Another way to cut costs might be just to close some of them. The Charleston Daily Mail reports that: Talk […]

From the Chronicle of Higher Education comes news that students and recent graduates now display riskier financial behavior than in prior years. According to the article: Researchers found that students had higher debt levels than the baseline sample had reported. Among students with an unpaid credit-card balance, the average balance was $152, up from $95 […]

Auburn University reports that it’s one of the first American colleges to participate in the Collegiate Learning Assessment, or CLA. According to the Auburn press release: Recent results from a pioneering study involving more than two dozen colleges and universities across the nation show significant gains in the intellectual and academic skills of Auburn University […]

As the saying goes, “If you’re not liberal when you’re young, you have no heart. If you’re not conservative when you’re older, you have no brain.” At the same time, however, many accuse the American university of indoctrinating students in liberal values. Well there might be something to this. According to an article in the […]

For months now, journalists have been predicting that changes to the student loan industry are imminent. The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA) is supposed to expand the federal Pell Grant program and save money by making colleges loan federal money directly to students, rather than using banks as a (thriving) middleman. In November […]