Daniel Luzer

A New York State appeals court yesterday said Columbia University cannot use eminent domain to take over land to build a new campus. According to an article about the decision in the New York Times: In a 3-to-2 decision, a panel of the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court in Manhattan annulled the state’s 2008 […]

Earlier this week Long Island’s Hofstra University, announced that it would no longer maintain a football program next fall. As Hofstra explained: Football could not attain significant national recognition, and it has had low student, community and media interest, attendance and financial support. In addition, the football program, the largest of the athletic programs, is […]

As far as international students are concerned, Americans have always understood that these students come to America because American universities are so great. Or at least the schools are vastly superior to education opportunities in these students’ home countries. Well, sort of. According to an article in Inside Higher Ed: While the prospect still causes […]

The College Guide had a piece earlier today about Kentucky’s higher education plan and the need for remediation. High standards are great, but not without systems in place to support those high standards. Kentucky’s standards will likely result in more remedial courses, and remedial courses are more a predictor of failure than a tool for […]

The U.S. Department of Education is trying to move from current federal student loan practices to a direct loan system, which president Obama supports, whereby schools will lend directly to students, without the expensive middle man, the banks. Despite the fact that the bill probably will not happen this year Sallie Mae, one of the […]

According to an article in California’s Capitol Weekly, the Golden State plans to draft a new Master Plan for higher education Assemblyman Ira Ruskin, D-Redwood City, will convene the first hearing of The Joint Committee for Review of the Master Plan on Higher Education at the Capitol. The day-long session will include a good deal […]

Thanks to Kentucky’s new policy on higher education, students in the state’s public colleges are expected to take more remedial education courses. Tougher education policies now make it harder to enroll in credit-bearing college courses in Kentucky schools. This means that students cannot take courses for credit without first demonstrating certain math and reading skills. […]

So much for that free tuition. Last year the spectacularly expensive Harvard Law School promised free tuition for all third-year students who pledged to work in public service law for at least five years after graduation. Well no longer. The law school announced earlier this week that it was ending the program, called the Public […]

A report issued today by the Brookings Institution, Invisible: 1.4 Percent Coverage for Education is Not Enough (pdf) indicated that the press insufficiently covers education issues. Apparently in 2009 less than two percent of national news focused on education issues. According to the report, this dearth of coverage is upsetting because: Education is one of […]

It has long been a rumor that for-profit colleges deliberately admit more students than can succeed at these schools, but now a former SUNY academic dean alleges that this practice was also common at one college in New York’s state university system. According to an article in Inside Higher Ed about the lawsuit filed recently: […]