National News

• Online admissions- efficiency or mediocrity? (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Are schools passing or failing? Now there's a third choice...both (New York Times)
  
  
• Affirmative action vote sought (Detroit News)
  
  
• Opinion- U.S. still leads in higher education but can't rest on laurels (South Coast Today)
  
  
• Educating immigrants (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Lumina Foundation for Education begins initiative on college costs (American Council on Education Web site)
  
  
• Academic freedom vs. first amendment (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Accreditation and politics (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Hispanics' schools are largest, neediest (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Denver voters approve pay for performance plan (CNN.com)