National News

• Admissions season makes colleges sweat (USA Today)
  
  
• Colleges restrain spending (USA Today)
  
  
• Our view on affordable education: Despite soaring tuition, colleges shun cost-cutting (USA Today)

• University of Illinois' virtual campus off to slow start (Stateline.org/Chicago Tribune)

• Reaching out to students in foster care (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Distance ed continues rapid growth at community colleges (Inside Higher Ed)