National News

• Hispanic-white achievement gap closing, education chief reports (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Not so dismal enrollments (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Competition = savings in the loan programs (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Government takes controversial stance on college sports (ABC News)
  
  
• IBM opens research to academia (ZDNet)
  
  
• Younger students excel in reading (USA Today)
  
  
• Which college guides are best? (Washington Post)
  
  
• Rutgers proposal for colleges meets alumnae resistance (New York Times)