National News

• A good year in the states (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• College budget cuts, enrollment drops force revamp (Shreveport Times)
  
  
• Student aid to get review (Denver Post)
  
  
• Aid and appeals for foreign languages (Inside Higher Ed)
  
   
• MA colleges and universities take long view of recruitment efforts (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Douglas promotes notion of improving 'affordability' of Vermont (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Urban colleges learn to be good neighbors (Washington Post)
  
  
• More criticism of 'academic bill of rights' (Inside Higher Ed)