National News

• Panel advises community colleges on raising graduation rate (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• The house’s new face on higher ed (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Bill Gates' big plan for the University of Washington (University Business)
  
  
• Southern Methodist University faculty opposes Bush's order on papers (University Business)
  
  
• Assumption College names new president (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• A new day at Harvard (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Academic skills meet the world (USA Today)
  
  
• Scientist at University of Pennsylvania is tapped to head Haverford College (University Business)
  
  
• 70 college presidents sign commitment to limit carbon emissions on their campuses (The Chronicle of Higher Educatin)