Daniel Luzer

There’s an update to the story from last week about the governor of Missouri’s decision to freeze tuition at the state’s colleges and universities. The Democratic governor, Jay Nixon, got college leaders to agree to the freeze to compensate for a “modest” 5.2 percent cut in state funding. But the governor’s opponents in the state […]

The U.S. Department of Education recertified the University of Phoenix, the on-line, for-profit school that is now America’s largest university, and declared that Phoenix can continue to take part in United States federal student financial aid programs. Some 86 percent of University of Phoenix’s revenue comes from federal financial aid. Phoenix’s certification expired in June […]

It is a discussion that rears its head every time the country has economic problems: just what good is college, anyway? A recent research study published by CQ Researcher titled “Is a 4-year degree the only path to a secure future” indicates that the answer is no. The report, by Thomas J. Billitteri at CQ […]

The mascot of the University of North Dakota has, since 1930, been the Fighting Sioux. NCAA considers American Indian nicknames offensive and told UND to find a new nickname or the school would not be allowed to host NCAA postseason tournaments. The North Dakota state board of higher education, which oversees the University of North […]

In the Room for Debate section of today’s New York Times Web site, six experts look at the cost of public higher education, particularly given the 32 percent fee increase at the University of California. As the introduction explains: Student protesters said that the higher costs will make it even harder for middle class and […]

In an editorial in the State Press, the student newspaper of Arizona State University, the author assesses how the tuition increase at the University of California might matter outside of the Golden State. California’s state schools needed to raise tuition hike because of the state’s cash shortage. As the State Press explains, the money shortage […]

A piece in today’s Boston Globe indicates that high school students are willing to contribute to the cost of college: A recent survey – the annual “College Savings Indicator’’ study by Fidelity Investments – found that parents of college-bound children in high school say they can cover only 11 percent of college costs, down from […]

The fitness examination for college graduation is nothing new but historically this was a sort of token test. Many colleges require students to swim the length of the pool or something to graduate. Well no longer. More than 25 seniors at Lincoln University might not graduate in the spring because they: Had body mass index […]

Researchers in the United Kingdom argue that England’s most exclusive universities should seek to diversify their student body. According to the article yesterday in the Daily Mail the Higher Education Policy Institute‘s Bahram Bekhradnia and Oxford’s Juliet Chester indicate that: Oxford and Cambridge should ‘explicitly discriminate’ against middle-class applicants with top grades to ensure a […]

Earlier this year the District of Columbia finally got a community college, the Community College of the District of Columbia (or CCDC). A few welcomed this institution as a positive, or at least interesting, development for DC. The problem was that the new community college was linked to the Distinct of Columbia’s existing state (or […]