Daniel Luzer

One good way to rise in the university rankings is for a school to become more selective. That is, have a greater applicant pool to reject. But how can a school become more attractive? It could develop a big sports program. It could create many highly specialized graduate programs. Or the college could engage in […]

In the turmoil surrounding the hefty tuition increase at the University of California, opponents of the price hike often cast the university’s board of regents as villains. But now some regents are trying to change that perception. According to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle: When students hold their big Day of Action in […]

Earlier this month the Education Trust released a paper arguing that most of America’s public colleges and universities were failing in their mission to educate needy students. The University of Virginia begs to differ. UVA thinks it’s doing better than Ed Trust does. According to an article in C-VILLE Weekly, the Ed Trust data comes […]

According to an article in the Washington Post, the gender gap in undergraduate education is no longer growing: More men are attending college and graduating with a bachelor’s degree, reversing the tendency of female undergraduates to outnumber men and outperform them academically, according to a new report out Tuesday. The report, by the American Council […]

In an update to the discussion over vocational programs and how much debt load students will be allowed to carry for the schools to maintain eligibility for federal funds, Inside Higher Ed reports that higher education officials and the Department of Education are still trying to hammer out a deal: A team of negotiators representing […]

Elsevier, the Dutch-based publisher of medical and scientific information, owns exactly one journal that isn’t subject to peer review: Medical Hypotheses. The journal, founded in 1975, is a slightly irreverent periodical that exists to publish “radical, interesting and well argued” medical articles. The trouble is that “radical and interesting” also often meant offensive and inaccurate. […]

Monthly editor Mariah Blake recently wrote a piece for the magazine, “Revisionaries,” about the power that conservatives on the Texas State Board of Education wield over the textbook market across the country. Well the group is at it again. According to an article published today in the Dallas Morning News, the Texas State Board of […]

Earlier this month, College Guide explored the growth of textbook rental programs, reporting that Barns & Noble has a growing rental plan. But some students might be uncomfortable with an agreement that forces them to sign up with a company that is currently the largest book retailer in the country and, despite the apparent cost […]

President Obama today offered the nation a package designed to “reverse the overall erosion in middle class security.” According to an article in the New York Times, this includes: A cap on federal loan payments for recent college graduates at 10 percent of income above a basic living allowance, would cost taxpayers roughly $1 billion….. […]

College administrators gathered in Washington last week at the annual conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. One of the subjects they discussed was how to make professors better teachers. Really. According to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: “Successful campuses sometimes improve their student learning despite their faculty-reward structures,” said […]