National News

• Tutor program offered by law is going unused (New York Times)
  
  
• More poor students not applying for aid (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Flawed loan system (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Crisis of confidence (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• On-time high school graduation rate fell in 2005 (New York Times)
  
  
• Panel explores standard tests for colleges (New York Times)
  
  
• Advancing higher education in uncertain times (University Business)
  
  
• Community colleges schmooze for bucks (The News-Observer)
  
  
• Tuition break sought for some illegals (Washington Post)
  
  
• Registrars' group takes on diploma mills (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• UT plans to lift rate, number of graduates (Houston Chronicle)
  
  
• Student aid, tutors seen as underutilized (Boston Globe)
  
  
• U. of Minn. bolsters aid for needy students (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• 1.5 million aid-eligible students don't apply (Inside Higher Ed)