National News

• Research universities need to eliminate barriers against women in science and engineering (American Council on Education)
  
  
• Some colleges shifting focus to teaching (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
  
  
• Harvard's endowment up to $29.2 billion (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Opting out of private school (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• The next level of open source (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Textbooks, barriers, and aid forms (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Bias or interest? (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Choosing a college, with help from the Web (New York Times)
  
  
• Columbia plans to shift some aid from loans to grants (New York Times)
  
  
• First-generation students face steep odds (Hattiesburg American)
  
  
• U-Va's one-year wonder (Washington Post)