National News - August 17, 2009

• Pride and peril: Historically Black colleges and universities (Diverse Issues in Higher Education)
• For-profit colleges' increased lending prompts concerns (USA Today)
• College publisher will rent textbooks to students (USA Today)
• As textbook costs stack up, interest grows in e-books (Houston & Texas News)
• On higher-education spending, the White House and Congress agree, to a point (The Chronicle of Higher Education)