Daniel Luzer

Craven Community College has removed a picture from its public areas because it features a popular professor smoking a cigar. According to an article in the New Bern Sun-Journal: Students in Craven Community College’s auto body program airbrushed the hood of a 1982 Mercury Capri drag racing car with a portrait of automotive instructor Robert […]

Earlier this month the College Guide reported on Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour’s controversial proposal to save money by consolidating his state’s public, historically black schools. Many students, alumni, and administrators at the schools, Alcorn State University, Jackson State University, and Mississippi Valley State University, oppose the move. They say it unfairly targets black students. Well […]

Some students take four years to finish college. Some take about six. Some never complete a degree. And then there’s the case of Harriet Richardson Ames, a retired New Hampshire schoolteacher. Ames earned her bachelor’s degree some 81 years after she started college. According to an article in the Washington Post: Ames, who turned 100 […]

In terms of college, as Inside Higher Ed put it “Thanks to leaks in the days leading up to it, there were virtually no surprises in President Obama’s State of the Union speech last night.” One thing I noticed, however, was that in the section of the speech about student loans where Obama urged the […]

From the Chronicle of Higher Education comes news that students who attend for-profit schools are doing okay: Students who attend for-profit colleges have comparable and often higher retention and graduation rates than those at other institutions, according to the findings of a study released on Wednesday. The study concluded that at the two-year level, career […]

Arizona State Senator Jack Harper, a longtime gun advocate, has sponsored a new bill to allow professors to carry concealed firearms on campus. According to an article in the Arizona Republic: Harper said an Arizona university professor, who feels like staff are “sitting ducks” on campus, brought the issue to him. He said his intention […]

In the latest news from the department of academic budget gimmicks, the Missoulian reports that: The possibility of a four-day work week stirred commotion – and emotion – on the University of Montana campus Tuesday, one day after President George Dennison announced ways the university may respond to predicted shortfalls in state and federal revenue. […]

According to an article in Inside Higher Ed, 2008 online enrollments were up 17 percent from a year before. More than 4.5 million people took at least one online class. This was not merely reflective of growth in the popularity of online universities. Much of the increase occurred from traditional colleges offering online courses. Not […]

One of the odd things about policymaking in a deep recession is that it encourages politicians to think in terms of Get Solvent Quick budgeting gimmicks. There’s the college tuition freeze. There’s President Obama’s budget freeze. And then there is the state of California, where earlier this month Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed amending the state […]

As far as higher education’s financing goes, the Obama administration’s proposed three-year budget “freeze” (scare quote explanation here) probably won’t have much impact. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that: Obama-administration officials…,said… that the restriction would not affect Pell Grants and largely would spare other education programs. “Pell Grants will be taken care of within […]