National News

• College loans take biggest cuts in budget (Boston Globe)
  
  
• New program is good news for low-income freshman (Boston Globe)
  
  
• New NCAA data shift graduation rate upward (New York Times)
  
  
• Kalamazoo and Michigan adjusting to the promise of free college tuition (Lexington Herald-Leader)
  
  
• A new way to keep score (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Commentary- The lowering of higher education (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Iowa group pushes for statewide education standards (Des Moines Register)
  
  
• Race cases put colleges to test (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  
  
• Promise of free college tuition changing lives in Kalamazoo (Detroit News)
  
  
• House passes budget reconciliation, slashes student loan funds (ACE Web site)