Daniel Luzer

The idea of colleges offering a bachelor’s degree in three years is becoming increasingly popular as a way for colleges and students to save money. But in the United Kingdom, where three year undergraduate degrees are standard, they’re trying to cut that down, too. According to an article in the Guardian: The age of the […]

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit devoted to campus free speech, is really pissed at Yale University. Apparently Yale requested that the Freshman Class Council halt production of a T-shirt that quoted a character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise saying “I think of all Harvard men as sissies.” According […]

Update on Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and his “Fair Share Tax” plan to force students to pay the equivalent of 1 percent of their tuition just for living in the Pennsylvania city: It’s not happening. The mayor gave up on the, well, inventive plan when, according to an article in Inside Higher Ed: Three of […]

Business Week has an article about potential ways to control college costs. The piece, by Michael Bassis, president of Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, explains that: Are there instructional designs that have the capacity to lower costs and enhance the outcomes of the educational experience? Let’s return to the case of online learning. […]

The College Guide has published several pieces recently about the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigation of a potential gender bias in American universities. The U.S. isn’t the only place that’s noticed gender disparity at the university level though. From an article in Inside Higher Ed: Last month, [University of Alberta] President Indira Samarasekera pointed […]

As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , there will be some $100 billion in new money for public elementary and high schools. Something else will change too. As J. B. Schramm and E. Kinney Zalesne of College Summit point out in an op-ed they wrote in the New York Times: But the […]

Brian K. Johnson was placed on leave this fall as president of Montgomery College, a Maryland community college. According to a September Washington Post article: Faculty leaders alleged in a nine-page investigative report that Johnson had “destabilized” the college in 2 1/2 years of leadership by disappearing from office for days at a time, missing […]

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA) has long been one of the more irritating aspects of the college application process. Students, or their parents, fill out this mega-form to determine eligibility for financial aid. The six-page questionnaire, filled with redundancies, irrelevant questions, and lacking potentially important information, can take several hours to fill […]

Many soldiers, perhaps enticed to join the military because of the Defense Department’s commitment to pay for up to $4,500 a year of college, end up enrolling in online colleges. This is understandable; when someone’s actually serving in the military it’s very difficult to attend classes toward a degree, no matter how much money one […]

Perhaps ever since John Quincy Adams proposed his political nonstarter national university in 1828, it’s been well established that the U.S. federal government pretty much stays out of education. Rules about public schools are pretty much left to the states and in terms of colleges, the federal role is mostly limited to money for scientific […]