National News

• New rules blamed for failures (Education Commission of the States)
  
  
• 16% fail TAKS graduation test (Education Commission of the States)
  
  
• College? There's no stopping them now (Education Commission of the States)
  
  
• Vets find GI Bill fails college-tuition test (Education Commission of the States)
  
  
• Rule change poses new challenges for online education (Education Commission of the States)
  
  
• Virginia Tech commencement marked by hope, sorrow (CNN)
  
  
• 15 survival strategies for instructors in higher education (University Business)
  
  
• More college alums are graduating to trade school  (Univeristy Business)
  
  
• Student newspapers dying at state's community colleges (University Business)
  
  
• College recruiters use student bloggers (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Colleges use blogs to recruit new generation (CNN)
  
  
• Whittier Tech turns around academic performance (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Oldest college grad may return to class (CNN)
  
  
• College cost crunch felt worldwide, not just in U.S. (CNN)
  
  
• Much more money for veterans? (Inside Higher Education)
  
  
• Getting rid of expertise (Inside Higher Education)
  
  
• Sharp debate over Title IX (Inside Higher Education)
  
  
• Beebe: graduation rates will set higher ed funding (Stateline.org)
  
  
• Thousands receive degrees at Ky. universities (Stateline.org)
  
  
• Spellings rejects criticism on student loan scandal (The New York Times)
  
  
• Purdue will reinvestigate its professor who claimed desktop fusion (The New York Times)