National News

• Katrina changes admissions (USA Today)
  
  
• House acts to provide relief to college students (American Council on Education Web site)
  
  
• American Indian and Alaskan Natives make progress- but still lag behind white counterparts- when it comes to college (American Council on Education)
  
  
• Brown, Princeton pledge to help rebuild flooded university (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Gulf Coast aid- from student loans? (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Don't forget the staff (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Default rates rise again (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Damages to Mississippi colleges estimated at $673 million (Mississippi Sun Herald)
  
  
• Can public universities stay public? (Wisconsin State Journal)
  
  
• Faculty frets about declining student quality (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Elite colleges opening doors for displaced students (CNN.com)
  
  
• Education Week's Leading for Learning annual reports (Education Week)