National News - January 14, 2010

• Flogging the flagships (Inside Higher Ed)
• Big-time college athletics: Are they worth the big-time costs? (USA Today)
• American colleges scramble to contact students and professors in Haiti (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Surging enrollments put community colleges in a good credit position (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Report: Public universities becoming 'far richer, far whiter' (USA Today)
• Maryland to thaw freeze on public university tuition (The Washington Post)
• When tenure means nothing (Inside Higher Ed)