Daniel Luzer

Community college is now for everyone. Or at least it is for more students than it used to be. According to an article in the Washington Post: Increasing number of high school graduates… pass over top-drawer public and private universities to become honor students at community colleges. Recession-wary students are flocking to selective two-year programs, […]

There’s another college guide in the works. The Washington Times reports that: WhatWillThey Learn.com is an alternative college guide that challenges much of the standard wisdom used for ranking colleges and universities. It was launched recently by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) to address the widespread erosion of rigorous general education requirements. […]

According to an Associated Press article, for-profit colleges are making a killing off of federal financial aid: Last year, the five institutions that received the most federal Pell Grant dollars were all for-profit colleges, collecting over $1 billion among them. That was two and a half times what those schools hauled in just two years […]

Historically, many colleges used difficult courses to weed students out of college or out of challenging majors. The wisdom of this tactic is now debatable. It is certain courses—specifically the hard sciences and math—that prevent students from completing college. Now, with a grant from the Lumina Foundation, Maryland is looking to change that. According to […]

This had to happen eventually. From the New York Times comes news that Michigan now has an institute of higher education, Med Grow Cannabis College, devoted to the study of marijuana: “This state needs jobs, and we think medical marijuana can stimulate the state economy with hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars,” said Nick […]

If Michigan fails to invest more money in higher education, the state universities will be in trouble, according to Jennifer Grandholm, the state’s governor. Grandholm, a rising Democratic political figure, says the state needs to change its outdated tax structure. According to an article in AnnArbor.com, the online successor to the Ann Arbor News, there […]

In the latest in round in the debates about how to use the glory of technology to fix school, comes news that at least one professor is using Twitter to advance classroom instruction. At least he’s trying. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education: As Mr. Chakravarty paces the front of a stadium-style lecture hall, […]

According to an article in the New York Times, Robert Bowman will not be admitted to practice law in New York because he owes almost $500,000 in student debt. According to the decision by a panel of five New York judges: “His application demonstrates a course of action amounting to neglect of financial responsibilities with […]

Today is the day after Thanksgiving, a day that traditionally sits with that week between Christmas and the New Year, and that last week of August before school starts; the forgotten vacation. The time when college students watch television and wonder, vaguely, if there’s something they should be reading. It is, after all, the first […]

There have been some interesting discussions at the Washington Monthly recently over the amount of money paid to athletic coaches at American universities. Apparently more than 50 football coaches at big Division I programs make over $1 million a year. This is, well, puzzling, given that the average full professor at a research university earns […]