Daniel Luzer

The president of Yale believes that soon Chinese universities will be the world’s top schools. From the Guardian comes news that: China’s top universities could soon rival Oxford, Cambridge and the Ivy League, the president of Yale University has warned. Richard Levin… said Chinese institutions would rank in the world’s top 10 universities in 25 […]

For years, despite the rising cost of college, the increasing burden of undergraduate debt, and the difficulty college graduates have finding professional jobs, there’s been one number that explains why college is worth it: $800,000. That’s the difference between the lifetime earnings of a high school graduate and a college graduate. But that number might […]

There’s an update to the budget problems facing public colleges in Nevada. According to Nevada Higher Education Chancellor Dan Klaich if the Legislature applies budget cuts across the Nevada state government, the system won’t have enough money to operate next year. According to an article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal: [Klaich]told the system’s governing Board […]

Edward Waters College, a tiny, historically black private school in Jacksonville, Florida, recently introduced an incredibly strict confidentiality requirement on all staff. According to an article in the Jacksonville News: The Edward Waters agreement, revised this month, is mandatory and classifies all on-campus material as confidential data. That includes employee records, policy documents and even […]

From Adventist Today a progressive Seventh-day Adventist magazine, comes news that the faculty of an Adventist-affiliated college has unanimously defended the teaching of evolution. From the article: The Faculty Senate of La Sierra University (LSU) has unanimously approved a resolution that affirmed faculty commitment to the “preservation of academic freedom with intellectual and moral integrity […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Council of Independent Colleges are working together on a new project: Two of the nation’s largest associations of independent colleges are teaming up in an effort to identify and encourage the best ways to help more students […]

Tuition is still going up, and there’s not much parents can do now. This is almost an evergreen (does tuition ever go down?) but tuition is especially challenging this time around because now the increases are big even at state schools. In many cases parents and students don’t have other resources to help them make […]

A racial incident at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio has prompted the college president to sleep in a student dormitory. According to the Associated Press: Graffiti [at Hocking] had warned that black students would die Tuesday, as the school president sought to reassure students by camping out in the dorm where the threat was scrawled. […]

In the last decade many of America’s exclusive, and wealthy, colleges moved away from student loans. One of these schools, Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, eliminated education debt in 2008. Williams and schools like it created policies so that all students would graduate debt free. Basically the idea was that students and their families paid […]

Does sending a student to a Catholic college actually make him less Catholic? The Cardinal Newman Society, a campus organization dedicated to promoting Catholic identity on American college campus, often seems to think so. According to an article in Inside Higher Ed, the Newman Society got the idea: In part from a 2003 analysis called: […]