National News - April 12, 2010

• Study Finds a 1.2 Percent Increase in Faculty Pay, the Smallest in 50 Years (The New York Times)
• Working Financial Literacy in With the Three R’s (The New York Times)
• The Push-Back on Charter Schools (The New York Times)
• Eroding Retirement Contributions (Inside Higer Education)
• Despite Years of Credits, Still No Degree (The Chronicle)
• More cities look to universities to share costs amid recession (The Boston Globe)
• Michigan college offers money back if grads don't get jobs (USA Today)
• Once drawn to U.S. universities, more Japanese students staying home (The Washington Post)
• The Alternative: Younger students give community college a second look (The Washington Post)