National News

• Obama agenda focuses on degree completion (Diverse Issues in Higher Education)
  
  
• Students' wealth may matter more to colleges (Lexington Herald-Leader/New York Times Service)
  
  
• For top colleges, economy has not reduced interest (or made getting in easier) (The New York Times)
  
  
• Colleges work harder to lure new students (NPR.org)
  
  
• Alliances between universities, community colleges ease student troubles (Detroit Free Press)
  
  
• Stimulus providing big funding boost for early childhood (Education Week)
  
  
• Revolt against outsourced courses (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• The global campus meets a world of competition (The Chronicle of Higher Education)