National News

• New help for the middle class (Inside Higher Education)
  
  
• Fault lines on accreditation (Inside Higher Education)
  
  
• Donations to colleges up sharply last year (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Funding the ever-more-costly college education (The Boston Globe)
  
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  Private giving to colleges soars (Inside Higher Education)
  
  
• Survey: College giving up sharply -- especially to wealthiest schools (CNN)