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• July 12, 2012 11:00 AM

  “Listen, I’m Not Drunk. I’ll Show You Drunk”

  Eastern Michigan University President Susan Martin (right) apparently got drunk, in public. This is getting a little, well, awkward for the school. According to an article by Kellie Woodhouse at AnnArbor.com: The Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents has...

  By Daniel Luzer

• May 10, 2012 11:00 AM

  Michigan’s “MCubed” Solution

  The University of Michigan, apparently fed up with traditional methods of scholarship funding, has a new plan to encourage research at the institution. According to a press release issued by the school’s department of engineering: Beginning this fall, departments,...

  By Daniel Luzer

• March 9, 2012 10:00 AM

  Zombies 101

  A class at Michigan State apparently exists to help students learn how to deal with and address societal disasters including, well, essentially fictional ones. According to a piece at ABC 7 WXYZ of Southfield, Michigan: The School of Social Work...

  By Daniel Luzer

• February 27, 2012 3:33 PM

  The Anti-College Policy

  Late last month presidential candidate Rick Santorum announced that he believed that American colleges to be centers for liberal political indoctrination. And then last weekend, in a speech in Michigan, he apparently said “President Obama once said he wants everybody...

  By Daniel Luzer

• January 12, 2012 5:49 PM

  Free College for Michigan?

  Georgia may have largely decimated its HOPE (Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally) scholarship program, which allowed most reasonably qualified high school students to attend college for free, but in at least one state, legislators are working on a new program to...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 16, 2011 6:02 PM

  The State’s Role

  University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman is getting involved in President Obama’s college cost discussion, sort of. As she appears to see it, college is getting more expensive for students because it’s getting less money from other sources....

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 16, 2011 11:00 AM

  Improving Graduation Rates: The Wrong Solution

  Michigan’s Wayne State University has a very low completion rate. The latest figures indicate that an abysmal 32 percent of students graduate from the school. But with new reform efforts targeting college graduation, Wayne State has decided to make some...

  By Daniel Luzer

• October 12, 2011 11:00 AM

  The Salary Problem

  Perhaps riding the wave of an anti-tax fad now sweeping the nation, The Grand Rapids Press reports that many community colleges are now being really careful about their budgets. According to an article by Dave Murray: Will voters accept a...

  By Daniel Luzer

• September 24, 2011 12:00 PM

  A Little More Stability for Adjunct Faculty

  Adjunct faculty, part-time university employees who are paid by the classes they teach, rather than on an annual salary, and are usually ineligible for benefits, are among the most exploited members of academic communities. This makes the latest developments at...

  By Daniel Luzer

• August 9, 2011 3:53 PM

  Giving Up on Public

  Can college ever be affordable again? Maybe not. That’s the concern of Michigan observers. As Peter Luke writes in a very interesting piece in the Grand Rapids Press: Congratulations, Michigan. After years of cutting state aid to its public universities,...

  By Daniel Luzer

• March 29, 2011 10:00 AM

  Academic Administrators Doing Very Well in Michigan

  Michigan has some interesting priorities. According to an article by David Jesse in the Detroit Free Press: Michigan universities increased their spending on administrative positions by nearly 30% on average in the last five years, even as university leaders...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 18, 2010 1:59 PM

  Hiring Next Year?

  Maybe companies will soon starting employing all those college graduates with so much debt. According to a piece by the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University: Despite the gloomy national labor market situation, the college segment of the...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 18, 2010 10:00 AM

  The Politics of Evil

  A trustee of one Michigan college is instituting a plan to cut off funding for a theater group because he opposes some plays the college has produced in the past. According to an article by Dave Murray in the...

  By Daniel Luzer

• October 17, 2010 12:00 PM

  Junk Food: “The Government’s Paying for It”

  Some colleges have started to encourage students to apply for public assistance to buy food. The recession touches everyone. But maybe Michigan college students are using food stamps to buy junk food! A piece in the Lansing State Journal...

  By Daniel Luzer

• September 2, 2010 4:19 PM

  The Job Guarantee

  A small college in Michigan has taken the remarkable step of guaranteeing that its students will get jobs if they finish school. And not just any jobs, good jobs. According to a piece by Daniel de Vise at the...

  By Daniel Luzer

• August 11, 2010 1:31 PM

  When it Pays to Pay Taxes

  People occasionally bemoan the fact that America’s colleges (like its churches) are except from property taxes. But becoming a regular, tax-paying company might actually financially benefit a college or two. According to an article by Chris Knape in the...

  By Daniel Luzer

• July 3, 2010 12:00 PM

  Community Colleges and Jobs

  Community colleges have apparently not been helped dramatically by money for job retraining. According to an article by Marisa Schultz in the Detroit News: When Gov. Jennifer Granholm launched the No Worker Left Behind program in August 2007, she stood...

  By Daniel Luzer

• June 22, 2010 2:55 PM

  Say No to the Bachelor's Degree

  In several states, legislatures are attempting to deal with the increased demand for college, not to mention the demand for education for many jobs, by converting community colleges into four-year schools. Later this month Michigan will vote on legislation to...

  By Daniel Luzer

• June 10, 2010 11:00 AM

  Charge It

  Many American colleges make money doing the very thing they often recommend their students avoid: putting kids into credit card debt. According to an article by Ben Protess and Jeannette Neumann in the Huffington Post: Some of the nation's largest...

  By Daniel Luzer

• June 2, 2010 11:00 AM

  Sports and Taxes

  Apparently all overblown college athletic programs are not created equal. According to a report by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, the cost of college sports has gone up, a lot, in recent years but that means different things...

  By Daniel Luzer

• June 2, 2010 10:00 AM

  Jerks

  College students today are not nearly as nice as they were in the 1980s and 1990s, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. According to the press release about the study:...

  By Daniel Luzer

• March 29, 2010 12:31 PM

  Is Jobs Retraining Worth It?

  According to an article by Matthew Miller in the Lansing State Journal, despite a lot of money available for unemployed workers to gain new skills, most of them aren’t able to attend school to do so. Laid off workers...

  By Daniel Luzer

• March 23, 2010 1:39 PM

  Or Your Money Back

  Lansing Community College has a new program guaranteeing that graduates will get a job. Beginning in May Lansing students studying for careers as pharmacy technician associates, customer service specialists, or industrial quality inspectors. The program is called "Get a Skill,...

  By Daniel Luzer

• March 17, 2010 1:43 PM

  Rewards for Professors

  One Michigan professor is very, very mad about the way universities reward academics. Another eccentric egghead? Well maybe. But this time, some people are paying attention. According to an article by David Glenn in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Last...

  By Daniel Luzer

• March 8, 2010 5:24 PM

  Mighican: A Promise or a Tax Break?

  State merit scholarships, generous grants to high-achieving graduates of public high schools who attend state universities, were very popular in the last ten years. West Virginia had the PROMISE Scholarship. Georgia had its HOPE Scholarship. And Michigan had the Promise...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 11, 2009 12:08 PM

  Merit Scholarships: Rob from the Poor, Give to the Rich?

  Michigan Lt. Gov. John Cherry proposed refunding the recently eliminated Michigan Promise scholarship program through a tax on bottled water companies. Cherry said a tax of 10 cents a bottle could generate $118 million per year. But University of...

  By Daniel Luzer

• December 10, 2009 11:11 AM

  Privatizing College

  The Los Angeles Times has an interesting piece today about the continuing funding troubles at the University of California. Earlier this week the school’s president, Mark Yudof, went to the state legislature to try and convince the body that his...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 29, 2009 1:18 AM

  Governor: Michigan Schools Need More Money

  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...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 24, 2009 2:53 PM

  College.com

  Dave Murray of the Grand Rapids Press had a column last week called “Can college students learn as much from an online class?” which features the almost evergreen discussion about whether or not colleges are actually as effective online. There...

  By Daniel Luzer

• November 22, 2009 11:15 PM

  Are Expensive State Schools Fair?

  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...

  By Daniel Luzer