National News

• College tuition hikes lower than expected (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Researchers: Michigan among national leaders in helping struggling elementary schools (Detroit Free Press)
  
  
• The global campus meets a world of competition (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• Oregon's universities turn in doomsday report (Oregon Live.com)
  
  
• Ivy Tech trying to rise to expectations of growing student enrollment (Courier Press)