Daniel Luzer
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How Cities Can Flourish After COVID-19
Two Harvard economists explain how crises have crushed cities and what we can do to strengthen them before the next disaster. → Read More
Review: Luke and Paul on the road
“No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition,” wrote George Bernard Shaw in ”Androcles and the Lion,” “than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.” Shaw’s line captures the outsize and frankly uneasy influence that St. Paul had on the early church. Though the apostle’s letters comprise almost a third of the New Testament, he remains controversial. Progressives… → Read More
The Dorm Solution by Daniel Luzer
December 11, 2015 12:00 PM The Dorm Solution By Daniel Luzer College success might have a lot to do with living on campus. With the proliferation of online colleges have come a lot of pieces predicting that the future of higher education in this country, and perhaps internationally, will mean students will take a lot of courses on their own, from various venues, to get the credits or skills they… → Read More
Where You Go to College Doesn’t Determine What You Make by Daniel Luzer
December 10, 2015 11:00 AM Where You Go to College Doesn’t Determine What You Make By Daniel Luzer How much should it matter how much college graduates earn? In theory salaries are really important. Getting a reasonably high-paying professional job is, after all, the primary reasons many college students would cite for why they’re in college at all. The recent Department of Education release of… → Read More
George Soros Is a Big Donor to Colleges. What’s He Buying? by Daniel Luzer
December 09, 2015 3:09 PM George Soros Is a Big Donor to Colleges. What’s He Buying? By Daniel Luzer So what’s the liberal equivalent of the novels of Ayn Rand? The role of the Koch brothers in higher education has been a subject of great interest to higher education observers. Recently a paper in the Journal of Academic Ethics demonstrated that donations by BB& T and Koch Industries were… → Read More
Fake Tenure at the University of Wisconsin by Daniel Luzer
December 04, 2015 10:00 AM Fake Tenure at the University of Wisconsin By Daniel Luzer What does the end of academic tenure look like? For centuries in this country tenure, the contractual right of a professor not to be fired without just cause, according to the standards set by the American Association of University Professors, has been the gold standard of academia. Only 24 percent of college… → Read More
Magic Laptops for Moravian by Daniel Luzer
December 03, 2015 10:43 AM Magic Laptops for Moravian By Daniel Luzer Moravian College, a 1,500-student school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, affiliated with an obscure fifteenth-century protestant movement, is conducting an interesting new experiment. According to a piece at Inside Higher Ed: > Moravian is halfway into a transformation that college officials say will “level the playing field”… → Read More
All Colleges Aren’t the Same by Daniel Luzer
December 02, 2015 3:00 PM All Colleges Aren’t the Same By Daniel Luzer They’re not even that similar. When trying to understand trends in American higher education journalists and reformers face a difficult task. This country’s academic system is so incredibly diverse that even word “college” is a source of confusion. When President Barack Obama introduced his nonstarter proposal to provide free… → Read More
For-Profit College Deal Mostly Good for Lawyers by Daniel Luzer
November 27, 2015 10:00 AM For-Profit College Deal Mostly Good for Lawyers By Daniel Luzer Attorneys in a case about mismanagement at schools run by the for-profit Education Management Corporation have reached a settlement. According to this piece in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review “EDMC agrees to $95.5M settlement, will improve recruiting process.” But, and it pains me to type this, really, this… → Read More
Texas Just Can’t Do the Right Thing With Textbooks by Daniel Luzer
November 25, 2015 10:00 AM Texas Just Can’t Do the Right Thing With Textbooks By Daniel Luzer Texas, the state responsible for so much of America’s weirdly conservative textbook selection options, recently decided that maybe it was time to fix this problem, so as to avoid further incidents where it earned the world’s horror and ridicule for doing things like referring to American slaves as… → Read More
New Names, and Bad Names by Daniel Luzer
November 24, 2015 3:08 PM New Names, and Bad Names By Daniel Luzer Students at Princeton University have started a campaign to try to get the school rename the things on campus that now honor U.S. (and one-time Princeton) President Woodrow Wilson, because he was a racist. According to this article by Andy Newman in the New York Times: > After a walkout by about 200 students, and the presentation… → Read More
Ranking What Matters, And What Doesn’t by Daniel Luzer
November 20, 2015 10:50 AM Ranking What Matters, And What Doesn’t By Daniel Luzer The the U.S. Department of Education’s recent release of a trove of information about campus outcomes was in general something the Washington Monthly very much supported. Information about what happens to college graduates, of all sorts, is important, because it can help potential students, parents, and even… → Read More
Who Really Pays for College Athletics? Poor People Do. by Daniel Luzer
November 19, 2015 10:00 AM Who Really Pays for College Athletics? Poor People Do. By Daniel Luzer Money in college sport is complicated, many argue. It’s confusing because of the variety of sports and college types, and the intricate revenue streams that make it all work (sort of) together. But a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education argues that in a general sense this is how it… → Read More
How College Administrators Can Deal With Campus Unrest by Daniel Luzer
November 18, 2015 3:03 PM How College Administrators Can Deal With Campus Unrest By Daniel Luzer Over the last several weeks students at college across the country have staged protests, of various degrees of intensity, about diversity on campus. How should college presidents deal with this? Presidents (perhaps with the notable exception of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s wife, occasional college… → Read More
What a Real War on Christmas Looks Like
A history lesson for former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and other conservatives worried about "a secular clown posse" set on destroying Judeo-Christian traditions. → Read More
Is Alcohol Really to Blame for the Prevalence of Sexual Assault on College Campuses?
Access to alcohol isn't anything new, but access to members of the opposite sex is. → Read More
What Kills Creativity?
Many American writers fear that standardized testing could be destroying our children. They might be right. → Read More
Does the President Have the Power to Convince Us of Anything?
Not really, no. So why, then, do we bother to listen to his speeches? → Read More
Terrorism’s Centerfolds
Why do almost all political killers have young admirers? → Read More
Why Does America Love—and Hate—Prince Harry?
The American fascination with royal families has been around for centuries, almost since we stopped having one of our own. → Read More