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December 2008

Tenure at Risk in Kentucky's Community Colleges (The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 5, 2008)

Colleges Are Accused of Giving Little Consideration to Alternatives to Affirmative Action (The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 1, 2008)

November 2008

Professors' Liberalism Contagious? Maybe Not (The New York Times, November 2, 2008)

Colleges as 'Failure Factories' (Inside Higher Ed, November 3, 2008)

Colleges Struggle to Preserve Financial Aid (The New York Times, November 10, 2008)

What College Presidents Think About Costs, Access, and Quality (The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 11, 2008)

Presidents' Pay Rises Faster at Public Universities Than Private Ones, Survey Finds (The New York Times, November 17, 2008)

U.S. Senator Questions Whether College Presidents Should Serve On Corporate Boards (The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 17, 2008)

Presidents of Colleges Give Back Some Pay (The New York Times, November 22, 2008)

Report Provides Advice on Campus Internationalization (The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 21, 2008)

October 2008

Bank Limits Fund Access, Inciting Fears (The New York Times, October 4, 2008)

In Downturn, Families Strain to Pay Tuition (The New York Times, October 16, 2008)

Culture and Decisions in Higher Ed (Inside Higher Ed, October 16, 2008)

Big Trouble, Potentially, For Little Colleges (Inside Higher Ed, October 17, 2008)

New Study Will Take Stock of Doctoral Programs in Educational Research (The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2008)

UC Irvine Law School Plans to Offer Full Scholarships to Its First Class of Students (The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 22, 2008)

Maryland's Black Colleges are Lagging Far Behind Peers, Are Said to Need More Support (The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 28, 2008)

More Than 100 of the Top Fund-Raising Colleges Make the Philanthropy 400 List (The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 27, 2008)

September 2008

Male-Only Class at Texas Community College Engenders Controversy (The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 29, 2008)

Foreign Students Flock to Australia for Vocational Education (The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 26, 2008)
Alabama Board Bars Illegal Immigrants From State's 2-Year Colleges (The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 25, 2008)
California Appeals Court Revives Challenge to In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants (The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 16, 2008)

August 2008

Containing the Tain of Loan Defaults (Inside Higher Ed, August 29, 2008)

Publicity About Defaults Steers 2-Year Colleges from Loan Programs (August 29, 2008)

RateMyRankings: Ridiculous! (Inside Higher Ed, August 28, 2008)

In Texas School, Teachers Carry Books and Guns (The New York Times, August 28, 2008)

The SAT’s Growing Gaps (The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 27, 2008)

'Unprecedented' 2-Year Decline for U.S. Science Funds (Inside Higher Ed, August 25, 2008)

Colleges and the Rankings Game: Who's Playing Whom? (The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 25, 2008)

That Student Loan, So Hard to Shake (The New York Times, August 24, 2008)

Student-Loan Woes Not Easily Solved, Congressional Research Report Warns (The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 21, 2008)

Equal Start, Less Progress in the Social Sciences (Inside Higher Ed, August 21, 2008)

Analysts Call for National Effort to Get More Students Through College (The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 13, 2008)

Demand for Private Loans Keeps Growing (New Hampshire Union Leader, August 7, 2008)

Student Loan Crunch Has Some Schools Turning to Direct Government Lending (Medill Reports, August 7, 2008)

International Team Aims to Develop a $12 Laptop During MIT Summit (The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 5, 2008)

July 2008

India Says It's Developing a $100 Laptop for Higher Education (The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 30, 2008)

More Uncertainty in Student Loan Programs (Inside Higher Ed, July 29, 2008)

Cost, Convenience Drive Veterans' College Choices (The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 25, 2008)

For Students, the Price of an Education Is to Go in to Debt (Detroit Free Press, July 24, 2008)

Higher-Education Price Index Rises 3.6 Percent, Trailing Consumer Price Index (The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 24, 2008)

Collapse of loan market, change in rules have families scramling (The Boston Globe, July 23, 2008)

With No Frills or Tuition, a College Draws Notice (The New York Times, July 21, 2008)

Homegrown Talent: U. of Michigan Program Hopes to Create Pipeline for Fund Raisers (The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 18, 2008)

The University of Ohiopennkaniowatenn (Inside Higher Ed, July 15, 2008)

Facing Up to Debt (Inside Higher Ed, July 14, 2008)

Is Turkey Muzzling U.S. Scholars? (Inside Higher Ed, July 1, 2008)

June 2008

Colleges Should Change Policies to Encourage Scholarship Devoted to the Public Good, Report Says (The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 26, 2008)

Whose Job Is it? (Inside Higher ed, June 16, 2008)

Bush Loyalist Fights Foes of 'No Child' Law (The New York Times, June 12, 2008)

'Quiet Desperation' of Academic Women (Inside Higher Ed, June 12, 2008)

Yale to Expand Undergraduate Enrollment by 15 Percent (The New York Times, June 12, 2008)

May 2008

Scholars Urge Colleges to Retain Data on Race That New Federal Rules Would Blur (The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 29, 2008)

Unintended Consequences of State Merit-Based Aid (Inside Higher Ed, May 29, 2008)

Researchers Worry About Inflated Measures of Student Engagement (The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 28, 2008)

Study Finds Graduation Gap for First-Generation Students, Regardless of Preparation (The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 28, 2008)

Where Multicultural Ed and Internationalization Meet (Inside Higher Ed, May 28, 2008)

A Lifeline for Students Left Behind (Inside Higher Ed, May 27, 2008)

Data as a Tool to Improve Community Colleges (Inside Higher Ed, May 27, 2008)

As Campuses Crumble, Budgets Are Crunched (The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 23, 2008)

Colleges Scramble to Help Students Find New Lenders (The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 23, 2008)

Administration to Announce a Rescue Plan That Lenders May Find Acceptable (The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 21, 2008)

Advocates of College-Savings Plans Hope to Cash In on Credit Crunch (The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 21, 2008)

Wake-Up Call for American Higher Ed (Inside Higher Ed, May 21, 2008)

Even in Hard Times, Colleges Should Help Their Communities (The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 16, 2008)

Calling All Kids: Take Tough Courses (Inside Higher Ed, May 14, 2008)

State High-School Exist Tests Do Not Improve Academic Achievement, Study Finds (The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 13, 2008)

Barack Obama and Affirmative Action (Inside Higher Ed, May 12, 2008)

Rankings Go Global (Inside Higher Ed, May 6, 2008)

A Design-It-Yourself Student-Loan Program (The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2, 2008)

A Closer Look at Minorities in Engineering (Inside Higher Ed, May 2, 2008)

Immediate Payback for College Grads (Inside Higher Ed, May 2, 2008)

April 2008

College's High Cost, Before You Even Apply (The New York Times, April 29, 2008)

'Graduate Education and the Public Good' (Inside Higher Ed, April 24, 2008)

Wealthy Colleges Show Drop in Enrollmens of Needy Students (The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 24, 2008)

The Graduate Rate Gap (Inside Higher Ed, April, 21, 2008)

The (Yes) Low Cost of Higher Ed (The New York Times, April 20, 2008)

Solution to Loan 'Crisis' May Create Bigger Problems (The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 17, 2008)

A Different Way to Fight Student Disengagement (Inside Higher Ed, April 15, 2008)

Spellings Sees Administration as Still Sorting Out Its Authority on Lender-of-Last-Resort Issue (The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 14, 2008)

Scholars See Need to Redefine and Protect Academic Freedom (The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 7, 2008)

College Isn't Worth a Million Dollars (Inside Higher Ed, April 7, 2008)

In a New Generation of College Students, Many Opt for the Life Examined (The New York Times, April 6, 2008)

AP Language, Computer Courses Cut (Washington Post, April 4, 2008)

U.S. Students Achieve Mixed Results on Writing Test (The New York Times, April 4, 2008)

Universities Try to Serve a Generationof Those Who Seek to Do Good (The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 4, 2008)

U.S. to Require States to Use a Single School Dropout Formula (The New York Times, April 1, 2008)

March 2008

Americans Split on Government Control of Tuition (The New York Times, March 31, 2008)

Colleges Need to Recognize, and Serve, the 3 Kinds of Latino Students (The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 28, 2008)

Recipients of College Aid 'Give Back' Later, New Study Suggests (The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 25, 2008)

Have Student Loans Become Yesterday's Good News Gone Bad? (The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 25, 2008)

Harvard Law, Hoping Students Will Pursue Public Service, Offers Tuition Break (The New York Times, March 18, 2008)

Michigan Athletes Steered to Easy Classes, Report Says (The New York Times, March 17, 2008)

The Modern Family: A Challenge for Student Aid (The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 17, 2008)

SAT Subject Tests Face New Scrutiny (Inisde Higher Ed, March 17, 2008)

Playing Politics on Student Loans (Inside Higher Ed, March 17, 2008)

The Argument Left Unsaid About Foreign Students (Inside Higher Ed, March 14, 2008)

Principal Sees Injustice, and Picks a Fight With It (The New York Times, March 12, 2008)

Athletic Scholarships: Expectations Lose to Reality (The New York Times, March 10, 2008)

A Science Prodigy in an Unlikely Place (The New York Times, March 9, 2008)

Math Suggests College Frenzy Will Soon Ease (The New York Times, March 9, 2008)

Colleges Reduce Out-of-State Tuition to Lure Students (The New York Times, March 8, 2008)

PHEAA Crisis Wallops Students (The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, March 2, 2008)

February 2008

Brown Ends Tuition for Lower-Income Students (The New York Times, February 25, 2008)

Celebrations and Tough Questions Follow Havard's Move to Open Access (The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 21, 2008)

Panel Discusses How Colleges Can Stem the Rising Cost of Higher Education (The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 21, 2008)

Stanford Set to Raise Aid for Students in the Middle (The New York Times, February 21, 2008)

For Muslim Stuents, a Debate on Inclusion (The New York Times, February 21, 2008)

Higher Education Gap May Slow Economic Mobility (The New York Times, February 20, 2008)

As Lending Tightens, Education Could Suffer (The New York Times, February 19, 2008)

Student Lenders Scale Back, but Not All Agree They Face Crisis (The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 15, 2008)

Best You Can Be Without a Degree (Inside Higher Ed, February 14, 2008)

Number of AP Test Takers and Scores Are Up, but Racial Gap Persists (The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 14, 2008)

Views on Immigrants Cost 3 California Community-College Trustees Their Posts (The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 11, 2008)

Can Liberal Arts Colleges Be Saved? (Inside Higher Ed, February 11, 2008)

2-Year College Leader Has Advice and Criticism for Peers at 4-Year Institutions (The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 11, 2008)

In Oil-Rich Mideast, Shades of the Ivy League (The New York Times, February 11, 2008)

Panel Debates Details of New Loan-Repayment and Forgiveness Plans (The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 7, 2008)

Pipeline to College Presidencies Carries Few Members of Minority Groups (The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 7, 2008)

The Feds Giveth, and Taketh Away (Inside Higher Ed, February 5, 2008)

A Future in Rubbish (The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 5, 2008)

Endowments Widen a Higher Education Gap (The New York Times, February 4, 2008)

January 2008

Community Colleges Are Key to Shoring Up the U.S. Economy, Report Says (The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 31, 2008)

Challenge to the Power of Tenure (Inside Higher Ed, January 29, 2008)

Turkish Professor Gets Suspended Sentence for Insulting Nation's Founder (The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 29, 2008)

Combining First-Year Engagement and Civic Engagement (Inside Higher Ed, January 28, 2008)

Arizona Law Takes Toll on Nonresident Students (The New York Times, January 27, 2008)

At Elite Prep Schools, College-Size Endowments (The New York Times, January 26, 2008)

Parental Involvement Wanted (Inside Higher Ed, January 24, 2008)

New Cutback at Sallie Mae: No More Student Loans at Colleges With Low Graduation Rates (The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 24, 2008)

Freshmen's Concerns About Quality, Cost at 35-Year High (The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 24, 2008)

Dartmouth Joins Push to Reduce Costs for Middle Class (The New York Times, January 23, 2008)

UT Lecturer Ends Hunger Strike for Domestic Partner Benefits (Austin American-Statesman, January 22, 2008)

Default Rates Projected to Soar (Inside Higher Ed, January 21, 2008)

Keeping Needy Students in College Hinges More on Academic Success Than Financial Aid, Study Finds (The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 21, 2008)

Analysis: Universities Overproduce Ph.Ds (San Francisco Chronicle, January 20, 2008)

Blue-Collar Boomers Take Work Ethic to College (The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 18, 2008)

Public-College Leaders Fret as Sallie Mae Struggles (January 17, 2008)

Yale Announces Boosts in Financial Aid (San Francisco Chronicle, January 14, 2008)

What Colleges Must Do to Keep the Public's Good Will (The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 11, 2008)

Calif. Educators Reeling by Schwarzenegger's Proposed Cuts (San Francisco Chronicle, January 10, 2008)

Scholars Mount Large-Scale Effort to Study Affirmative Action's Effects - Bad and Good (The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 8, 2008)

The Harvard Trickle-Down Effect (January 7, 2008)

Generation Gaps and Racial Disparities Draw Concern at Meeting of Law-School Officials (The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 4, 2008)

News Analysis: How Can the Humanities Articulate Their Worth? (The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 3, 2008)

December 2007

Weighing Expansion as More Top Students Clamor at Ivy Gates (The New York Times, December 26, 2007)

Left in the Dark (The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 21, 2007)

Training Teachers Who Will Stay (Inside Higher Ed, December 20, 2007)

No-Loan Plan at Swarthmore: College Joins Harvard, Princeton and Others in Extending Financial Aid ( Philadelphia Inquirer, December 13, 2007)

Report Finds Better Scores in New Crop of Teachers (The New York Times, December 12, 2007)

Debates Persist Over Subsidies for Immigrant College Students (The New York Times, December 12, 2007)

Harvard U. Announces More Financial Aid for Middle-Income Families (The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 11, 2007)

Educational Benefits for Illegal Immigrants Are a Hot Presidential-Campaign Topic (The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 7, 2007)

Quality Education Gets Lost in Translation: Law's Requirements Hurt School that Has Influx of Immigrants (San Francisco Chronicle, December 4, 2007)

Reforming the 'Formation of Scholars' (Inside Higher Ed, December 4, 2007)

November 2007

In Haiti, a Rare Leg Up (The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 30, 2007)

Will Young Voters Engage in Higher Numbers Next Year?: Student Project Surveys College Students' Interest in Campaign 2008 (Washington Post, November 29, 2007)

Doctorates to Minority-Group Members Increased in 2006, New Report Says (The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 26, 2007)

Decline of the Tenure Track Raises Concern (The New York Times, November 20, 2007)

College Board 'Compact' Targets Low-Income Students (Education Week, November 20, 2007);

Trading in the Blue Collar (Inside Higher Ed, November 19, 2007)

Forgiving Loans of Those in Public Service Grows Popular, but Programs Are Unproven (The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 15, 2007)

Some Community-College Students Fall Through the Cracks in Their First Month (The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 12, 2007)

A Post-Iraq G.I. Bill (The New York Times, November 9, 2007)

University Race-Sensitive Admissions Programs Are Not Helping Black Students Who Most Need Assistance (Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 56, Summer 2007)

Today's Students Are More Civically Engaged but Are Ambivalent About Politics, Report Finds (The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 8, 2007)

Early Admissions Policies Give Children of the Rich an Edge (San Francisco Chronicle, November 4, 2007)

Embattled Barnard Anthropologist Is Awarded Tenure (The New York Times, November 3, 2007)

U. of Del. Halts Diversity Program (Philadelphia Inquirer, November 3, 2007)
Millenials, Unspun (Inside Higher Ed, November 2, 2007)

A College-Friendly Take on Rising Tuition Prices (Inside Higher Ed, November 2, 2007)

Williams Drops Loans and Wesleyan Curbs Them (Inside Higher Ed, November 2, 2007)

October 2007

Closing the College Achievement Gap (Inside Higher Ed, October 31, 2007)

A Haven for Minority Scholars (Inside Higher Ed, October 30, 2007)

The Future of Progressive Higher Ed (Inside Higher Ed, October 29, 2007)

Graduates' Debt Can Block Career Path, Study Says (Columbia Tribune, October 27, 2007)

Simplicity vs. Equity in Aid Applications (Inside Higher Ed, October 26, 2007)

Should Schools Warn Students About Debt? (Business Week, October 24, 2007)

Open Forum on California's Future: Time to Take Action (San Francisco Chronicle, October 21, 2007)

DREAMing of a Path to Citizenship (San Francisco Chronicle, October 10, 2007)

May - September 2007

Students Winners in Revised U.S. Loan Program (September 23, 2007)

Battling for a Diploma (The Washington Post, August 5, 2007)

Multiplying Benefits of College for Everybody (The Washington Post, May 29, 2007)

News Archives: October 2005 - April 2007

Coverage of the Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education

Spellings Commission Web Site

In Focus at InsiderHigherEd.com

Response from the Association of American Colleges and Universities

Spellings Tries to Reform Panel's Ideas Into Action (The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 30, 2007)

The Rise and Fall of the Spellings Commision (the Chronicle of Higher Education, January 26, 2007)

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