National News

• UW promises to fund tuition, fees for school's poorest students (Seattle Times)
  
  
• Online college texts are free, but not free from ads (Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Laser technology opens doors for college students (Boston Globe)
  
  
• 5,000 to get free UW tuition (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
  
  
• New approach to aid (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• A brief history of American Ph.D.'s (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• NCAA cracks down on Kansas (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Ohio regents pushing to aid poor parents seeking degrees (Akron Beacon Journal)