National News

• Foreign graduate student applications increase for Fall 2006 (ACE News)
  
  
• Opinion- Cooling off about keeping up (Washington Post)
  
  
• Stingy thanks for Iraq duty: Funds for tuition waivers MIA (Boston Herald)
  
  
• Lawmaker seeks ruling on illegals' tuition (Shawnee News-Star)
  
  
• Panel retreats on proposal to cut student loan aid (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Column: Small biz has MBAs within reach (Boston Globe)
  
  
• The Middle East muddle (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• 'Privitazation and public universities (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Commentary- Virtue and vices of 'value added' (Inside Higher Ed)
  
   
• Two states drop out of new dropout plan (Stateline.org)
  
  
• University tries to make Texas a science force (New York Times)
  
  
• UConn decides to build its own college town (New York Times)
  
  
• Google and UC sign contract to digitize books (CNet)
  
  
• Florida schools relying less on state funding (Daytona Beach News-Journal)
  
  
• At schools, less tolerance for 'zero tolerance' (USA Today)