Daniel Luzer

Nelnet, the Nebraska-based student loan company, recently subpoenaed records from the U.S. Education Department. According to the New America Foundation’s Higher Ed Watch blog: Nelnet recently had a subpoena issued to the U.S. Department of Education for documents it believes will definitively show that the agency’s former leaders signed off on the company’s plan to […]

More college sports news. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the academic performance of college athletes but some small schools are now arguing that reporting about the jocks’ academic performance is more trouble than it’s worth. From an article in Inside Higher Ed: Officials from small, tuition-driven colleges criticized a pilot program to […]

The National Labor College, a Silver Spring, Maryland school associated with and subsidized by the AFL-CIO to educate union members, announced that NLC: Plans to establish a new online service that will bring high-quality degree programs to the AFL-CIO’s 11.5 million members and their families. Tentatively named the College for Working Families, the program will […]

From USA Today comes an interesting story about the price tag for college sports: At Cincinnati, competing in the Big East means going to the Sugar Bowl to play Florida. It means a good shot at a place in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. And there’s having your name known nationally. But membership has a […]

Do online university programs make it easier to scam the federal government? Perhaps. From the Chronicle of Higher Education comes news that: An Arizona woman pleaded guilty on Tuesday to running an elaborate scam that highlights what federal authorities describe as the vulnerability of online education to financial-aid fraud. Social Security numbers. Tax returns. High-school […]

This is so puzzling one can’t really make it up. The Yorkshire Evening Post reports that: Two students at Huddersfield University are said to have created Hitler – The Drinking Game, which involves laying out cards in a swastika shape and “leaves players completely ruined beyond belief”. The group’s [Facebook page] currently has nearly 12,000 […]

When discussing the concept of colleges offering a bachelor’s degree in a mere three years back in December the College Guide pointed out, admittedly sort of snarkily, that the average college student actually graduates in something more like six years. Only 37 percent of students finish in four years. That can get expensive. Well one […]

According to an article in Inside Higher Ed, the New York Times will now be teaching college: Two years ago, with revenue from its celebrated print product in a nosedive, the New York Times Company starting poking its nose into the lucrative market of distance education, providing technology, marketing, and archival resources for non-credit courses […]

The state universities are failing in their mission to provide inexpensive education to middle and low income families, according to a new report by the Education Trust. According to a Washington Post article about the study: Many of the nation’s top public universities are giving millions of dollars in financial aid to students from relatively […]

Apparently today’s students are experiencing higher levels of anxiety than previous generations, even high school and college students that came of age during the Great Depression. According to an article in USA Today: A new study has found that.. [more] high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues as […]