National News

• In New York's Smaller Schools, 'Good Year and a Tough Year' (The New York Times)
  
  
• Colleges work to keep freshmen (The Cincinnati Post)
  
  
• Plan step by step to get into college (The Cincinnati Post)
  
  
• PROMISE, grants keeping students in school, lawmakers told (WVA News)
  
  
• Preventing dropouts helps nation’s economy (Ashville Citizen-Times)
  
  
• NCAA Approves Changes in Academic Policies (Inside Higher Ed)