Daniel Luzer

According to an article yesterday in the New York Times, some colleges are now making another effort to deter binge drinking. Only now it’s not just frat parties and pre-gaming that are concerns. The University of Minnesota has a new program: Modeled after a program at the University of Wisconsin, Check BAC [Blood Alcohol Content] […]

The New York Times had an update yesterday on the 32 percent tuition increase voted yesterday by the regents of the University of California. The piece, accompanied by photographs of student and staff protests, explains that: The vote was 20-1, with only student Regent Jesse Bernal of UC Santa Barbara voting against the increase that […]

Regarding the tuition freeze tuition freeze at public colleges in Missouri, University of Missouri System President Gary Forsee said yesterday that the hold was a step in the right direction, but not good enough. From the Columbia Missourian: “The higher education business model, the funding model, is broken,” Forsee said in a morning news conference […]

Yesterday the regents of the University of California approved a 32 percent tuition increase. From the Chronicle of Higher Education : The tuition proposal, which is expected to receive final approval on Thursday by the system’s full Board of Regents, will help close a large budget gap, in part by raising undergraduate tuition at the […]

With many students and families feeling pressured by economic factors to choose cheaper schools, community colleges look more attractive for many families, or at least that’s what the community colleges are hoping. The pitch goes like this: students go to community colleges for a year or two, accumulate the necessary credits, then transfer to four-year […]

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine’s December issue rates American colleges to come up with a list of the top 100 schools for education value. While there are no big surprises here (the Kiplinger measure of school quality is based on familiar things including admission rate, SAT scores, students-faculty ratio, and graduation rate) the Kiplinger article looks […]

Adding a new topic to the conversation about American colleges and their quality and cost, an article last week in the Toronto Star introduces another option: some Americans are just opting out of the whole process. In the last ten years the number of Americans seeking higher education in Canada has tripled. Experts predict some […]

From the New York Times comes word that some colleges’ attempts to trim their budgets to make up for a loss in investment revenue have resulted in the hiring of management consultants: When Holden Thorp, the chancellor of the University of North Carolina, was looking for ways to cut the university’s budget, he did what […]

Liz Coleman, the president of Bennington College Bennington College talks (in 2009) about what’s wrong with American higher education and how we might be able to fix it. The progression of today’s college student is to jettison every interest except one. And within that one, to continually narrow the focus, learning more and more about […]

All of higher education might still be suffering from something of a financial crisis, but the problems aren’t, it turns out, evenly distributed. According to a piece by Andrea Fuller in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Salaries for faculty members across all disciplines rose by 1.9 percent this year, nearly matching the 2-percent rise in […]