Daniel Luzer

College freshmen are very, very worried. According to an article in the New York Times The recession hit this year’s college freshmen hard, affecting how they chose a school as well as their ability to pay for it, according to an annual nationwide survey released Thursday. Over all, students were more likely than previous freshmen […]

From Education Week comes news that high school teachers and college professors don’t agree on how prepared students are for college; high school students are not prepared for college: What does it mean when far more high school teachers think their students are ready for college than do the college instructors who teach them? It […]

Apparently the University of South Carolina is not, officially, USC. USC is the University of Southern California. According to an article in Inside Higher Ed, yesterday the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that: Southern Cal — not the University of South Carolina — had the rightful trademark claim to an […]

Wheaton College is arguably the most influential American Christian college. According to the Princeton Review’s The Best 351 Colleges, “If the integration of faith and learning is what you want out of a college, Wheaton is arguably the best school in the nation with a Christ-based worldview.” But if it’s evangelical, it’s not fundamentalist. Wheaton […]

Why not eliminate the state higher education commission to save money? One South Carolina legislator has a plan to do just that for his state. According to an article in the Charleston Post and Courier, Rep. Jim Merrill: Said the [South Carolina Commission on Higher Education] no longer does what it was intended to do: […]

Sometimes college doesn’t pay. At least it doesn’t pay very well. While the Community College Times glowingly reported yesterday that “completing an associate’s degree was worth $41,962 more than the cost of tuition, fees and forgone wages while in college,” it appears that for many people, even with a bachelor’s degree, finding a job is […]

Community colleges have a lot of work ahead of them if they’re going to create 5 million new graduates, as President Obama plans. According to an article in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: States’ higher education systems must dramatically overhaul themselves if they intend to fulfill President Obama’s goal of remaking America home to the […]

This is all getting very strange. Apparently Yale University, the 300-year-old school that is already one of the most selective colleges in the United States of America, needs more applicants. And not just normal applicants. Oh no, it’s not enough that the school’s alumni already include luminaries as diverse as Harold Bloom, William F. Buckley, […]

To celebrate Martin Luther King Day yesterday people affiliated with Mississippi’s three public historically black universities, Alcorn State University, Jackson State University, and Mississippi Valley State University, marched to observe their schools. Or, rather, they marched to protest the governor’s plan to combine Alcorn State University and Mississippi Valley State in order to save money. […]

Iowa’s community colleges are facing new challenges as more citizens seek classes community colleges provide. According to an article in the Sioux City Journal: “We’re growing like a weed,” said Steve Ovel of the Iowa Association of Community College Presidents and Trustees. “There are a lot of pressure points.” Comparing Iowa’s community colleges to an […]