Daniel Luzer

Shares of Apollo Group Inc., the company that owns the for-profit University of Phoenix, fell almost 6 percent yesterday. The downswing came after the company received a report from the U.S. Department of Education ordering the school to return federal loan money. According to a Reuters article: According to DoE’s regulations, education institutions have to […]

Yale University announced Monday that it recently received a large donation: Lei Zhang MBA ’02, GRD ’02 has pledged the largest gift ever to the Yale School of Management by a graduate of the school. Zhang’s pledge, made less than 10 years after his graduation from Yale, also represents the largest gift to date from […]

According to a piece on Southern California Public Radio, apparently California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to spend more on higher education. Or he wants the state to spend more than it currently spends on prisons: It’s a cliche state lawmakers love to apply in their railings against cuts to education, and Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn’t resist […]

From Inside Higher Ed comes news about trends in higher education. While this isn’t really a scientifically valid survey (the information here is culled from overhearing college presidents) some of this looks very interesting: [College presidents] noted… potentially worrisome signs. While smaller private colleges with the numbers to back it up have been boasting to […]

From the Chronicle of Higher Education comes news that the Obama administration is looking to augment the number of science and math teachers in American elementary and secondary schools through college partnerships: Leaders of 121 public universities have pledged to increase the total number of science and math teachers they prepare every year to 10,000 […]

In a follow-up to the piece Kevin Carey wrote for Democracy last year, Time has an interview with Carey to take another look at some of the issues he raised about American colleges and their transparency. According to the article Carey says: no one knows how much students learn at a given college or university. […]

This is bound to get, well, interesting. From an article in the Boston Globe comes news that: The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has established a policy banning people from covering their faces on its three campuses, in an effort to ensure public safety, a college spokesman said today. Almost immediately, the Council […]

Perhaps it’s time to reconsider how American colleges teach science. According to an article in Inside Higher Ed: The traditional introductory courses to science disciplines are a major reason why so many students drop science as soon as they can. That was the message of Shirley M. Tilghman, a molecular biologist who is president of […]

The Jan/Feb 2010 issue of the Washington Monthly is now live. There are a number of interesting features in this issue. Charles Homans’ “The Party of Obama” looks at the future of the Democratic Party in light of the election of Barack Obama. Our special report, “The Agent Orange Boomerang” covers the continuing effect of […]

James Altucher, financial columnist and managing director of Formula Capital, joins the “college isn’t worth it crew” when he points out in this article in the Huffington Post, that at an average cost of $104,000 over four years, the benefits of college aren’t really worth the price: Over the course of a lifetime, according to […]