Daniel Luzer

Student loans are troublesome for a variety of reasons. The thing about student loans that worries everyone, even here at the College Guide, is the difficulty students will have paying them back later on. But for at least a decade, one could count on the loans being relatively easy to obtain. Anyone could get a […]

With the economy in freefall the connection between a college degree and a job is looking a little less clear. So now some colleges are looking to make their schools more “relevant.” Welcome to Thomas College, “Home of the Guaranteed Job!” According to an article in the New York Times: The shift in attitudes is […]

Apparently going to college lowers the risk of a heart attack. From the San Francisco Examiner comes news that: A new study published in the journal Heart finds that there is a strong correlation between education and heart attack risk. Those who have eight years of schooling or less are up to 31 percent more […]

The University of Chicago created a minor scandal last month when the school’s dean of admissions, James Nondorf, sent a letter out to all applicants trying to lighten their mood. According to an article in the New York Times the letter read, in part: “Dear University of Chicago, It fills me up with that gooey […]

Does the bad economy actually help humanities professors get laid? One normally wouldn’t think so (or think the question worth asking) but apparently some members of the Modern Language Association (MLA) are trying to figure out if it does. According to an article in Inside Higher Ed at this year’s MLA meeting many are asking […]

South Carolina needs to improve its higher education system. This is according to the chairman of the state’s Commission on Higher Education. From an article in the Columbia City Paper: For South Carolina to get out of the cellar on several generational problems – low education levels, poverty, high unemployment and more – its leaders […]

It’s become pretty well established by now that “green” is the way of the future. According to USA Today, “The Obama administration has estimated that jobs in energy and environmental-related occupations will grow 52% from 2000 through 2016, vs. 14% for other occupations.” At least in part this explains the proliferation of green majors in […]

The University of Maryland may cut its one full-time Yiddish professor position. According to the Baltimore Sun: At the University of Maryland, which has stood alongside Harvard and Columbia as one of the nation’s few schools to consistently offer instruction in the Germanic tongue, the recent announcement that the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for […]

While Indiana may have used higher education cuts to promote improvement—rewarding state colleges with higher performance by cutting their budgets less—this policy apparently isn’t all that popular across the country. The University of Hawaii has decided to simply cut the salaries of all faculty by 6.7 percent next year, according to an article in the […]

For years one of the big themes in education involved learning styles. Some students learned best with hands-on projects. Some learned by reading. Others learned by hearing information aloud. This chart shows the different learning styles. Apparently it doesn’t matter much, however. According to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Almost certainly, you […]