National News

• Duncan wins praise at confirmation hearing (Diverse Issues in Higher Education)
  
  
• Study: Race-blind admissions could constrain minority college enrollment (Diverse Issues in Higher Education)
  
  
• States weigh cuts to merit scholarships (Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Bush makes last push on education (U.S. News & World Report)
  
  
• UDC plans to operate two campuses (Washington Post)
  
  
• Lawsuit accuses U. of Phoenix of protecting its default rate at students' expense (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• Economic-stimulus bill is likely to include increase in Pell Grant (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• Toward an all e-textbook campus (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Fewer poor students attending college since Promise began (Charleston Gazette)
  
  
• At M.I.T., large lectures are going the way of the blackboard (The New York Times)