National News

• No free lunch- How to really raise graduation rates (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Hired and not necessarily prepared (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Commentary- What Spellings got right and wrong (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Study blasts proposed changes in race, ethnicity data (Education Week)
  
  
• U.S. expands probe of student loan issuers (L.A. Times)
  
  
• Gender equity or finances? (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Paying for performance (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Community colleges make higher ed affordable (Detroit News)