National News

• Drug convictions costing students their financial aid (USA Today)
  
  
• Kentucky professor put on leave after abortion spat (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Students seeking more aid for college (The Oregonian)
  
  
• More master's courses designed to expedite students into jobs (Washington Post)
  
  
• Competition worries U.S. graduate programs (Washington Post)
  
  
• Setting the rules on free expression (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Divided universities must become unified again (Albany Times-Union)
  
  
• Omaha school district to split along racial lines (CNN.com)
  
  
• Changes target potential high school dropouts (Orlando Sentinel)
  
  
• A win-win on health benefits (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Academia dissects the service sector, but is it a science? (New York Times)
  
  
• Preparing for the future faculty (Inside Higher Ed)