Daniel Luzer

An article in U.S. News and World Report indicates that the unemployed are straining community colleges across the country. While many educators tout continuing education as the solution for unemployment, the article indicates that many schools may simply not be ready to educate so many new people: The crowds of unemployed people trying to get […]

Last Friday the U.S. Department of Education introduced its revised Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form. The simplified form reduces the amount of time it takes to apply for federal financial aid from around two hours to something more like 20 minutes. According to an article in USA Today: That… is music to […]

Here’s some hilarious news for university development offices. Apparently in lieu of sending out thousands of acknowledgments to alumni who donated last year, Johns Hopkins University decided to take the um, novel, step of posting a Youtube video to thank alumni. The full video can be seen here. College Guide readers are encouraged to watch […]

Last month the College Guide included a piece about House legislation to create a formal college football playoff. The goal of the legislation is to force college football to move from a haphazard series of bowls to a playoff system that will determine a national college football champion team. Well apparently the idea is moving […]

The Wall Street Journal recently ran a review of The Lowering of Higher Education in America, a controversial new book by retired Rutgers sociology professor Jackson Toby. According to the review Toby argues in his new book that: Students have been misled about the value of their degrees. Yes, a bachelor of arts degree commands […]

Chnages in financial aid over the last decade in American’s exclusive colleges resulted in more aid for students from relatively wealthy families. According to an article in Inside Higher Ed: A period of dramatic shifts in the aid policies of some of the most elite private colleges in the United States has had only the […]

In other news from the annual meeting of the American Economic Association, apparently, despite extensive rhetoric about education and the workforce, American colleges don’t do a terribly good job preparing students for employment. According to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: American colleges are only “moderately responsive” to changes in the labor markets, […]

It’s not the university’s fault, really. Malcolm Grant, provost of University College London protests that his school is not responsible for the extreme views of alum Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian man who tried to detonate plastic explosives while traveling on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day. Abdulmutallab studied Engineering and Business Finance […]

Paging Larry Summers…. According to a study presented today at a meeting of the American Economic Association, more female faculty in engineering departments cause more undergraduate women to major in engineering. An article in Inside Higher Ed explains: The study found… one area where there was a correlation between increased representation of women on the […]

Florida students who are members of the state’s scholarship program will now have to pay for dropped classes. According to an article in the Miami Herald: A new state law requires students with Bright Futures scholarships to repay their award money if they withdraw from a class after the drop and add period — typically […]