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March Clarion  
  

HIGHER
EDUCATION HEADLINES

Organized by date.  For stories organized by theme, click here

"As Possible Terrorist Targets, Universities Are Taking Precautions" (NY Times - 3/26)

"Computer Problems Slow Tracking of Foreign Students" (Washington Post - 3/26)

"Antiwar Efforts Abound at Area Colleges" (Philadelphia Inquirer - 3/21)

"Scholars Move to Protect 'Priceless' Iraqi Heritage" of Historical Artifacts (UK Guardian - 3/21)

"Study Challenges Case For Diversity At Colleges" (NY Times - 3/20)

"Suddenly, a Seller's Market for Arabic Studies" (NY Times - 3/19)

Bruno Tells "Teachers Fighting to Restore Education Budget Cuts Go 'Take a Plane and Fight' in Iraq" (NY Post - 3/19)

"State Colleges Face Calls for Radical Reform...From Privatization to State Vouchers" (Christian Science Monitor - 3/18)

Bastions of "Affordability'? -- "Cutbacks Sting Community College Students" (LA Times - 3/17)

UA Professors Agree to Faculty Union" (Akron Beacon-Journal - 3/13)

"Harvard Activists Decry War" (Boston Herald - 3/13)

Cambridge University "Sit-In Protest Over Top-Up Fees" (BBC - 3/13)

"After Years of Cash Flow, Universities Hit an Ebb (NY Times - 3/13)

"Scandal Has Air Force Pledging Overhaul At Academy" (USA Today - 3/12)

"Black College Diversifies, Luring Russian Town" (NY Times - 3/12)

"Fees Seen Rising by $800 at UMass" (Boston Globe - 3/12)

"Universities Learn Value of Neighborliness" (NY Times - 3/12)

"Federal Raid in Idaho Town Creates Anxiety for Muslims / 100 Agents Arrest Saudi Grad Student, Question Others" (SF Chronicle - 3/10)

U-Mass "Campuses Unify in Battling Governor (Boston Globe - 3/10)

"More Students Line Up at Financial Aid Office" (NY Times - 3/10)

"Teaching Assistants' Strike Escalates as UBC Unions Picket" (Vancouver Sun - 3/9)

"Effort to Make Tuition Costs Predictable at Pace University" (NY Times - 3/9)

"Poll Finds 80% Support College Diversity" (Detroit Free Press - 3/8)

United Negro "College Fund Gives $1.5 Million to School" (Atlanta Constitution - 3/7)

"Lawmaker Proposes a Measure to Restrain Tuition Increases" (NY Times - 3/7)

"Regents Increase Tuition by 39%" (Arizona Republic - 3/7)

"Athletes' Protests Draw Scorn From Coaches" (Boston Globe - 3/7)

"Students Drop Books, Take to Streets Against War" (USA Today - 3/6)

"Oxford Hands Anti-War Petition To No 10" (UK Guardian - 3/6)

"Students Around the Globe Join in Anti-War Protest" (Toronto Star - 3/6)

"Students Step out For Peace" - SJSU Students Link War and Tuition Increases (San Jose Mercury News - 3/6)

News Analysis: "Yale Oxymoron - Labor Relations" (NY Times - 3/6)

"A Student Celebration in Iraq's Capital" (Christian Science Monitor - 3/6)

Australia: "Books Not Bombs' Student Protest Hits Sydney" (Reuters - 3/5)

"Arab Students Put Hatred For Saddam Aside To Protest War" (Atlanta Constitution - 3/5)

"Students Pencil in Iraq Protest" (CNN - 3/5)

"Muslim Students Lead War Protests" (Washington Times - 3/5)

"Stanford Puts a Freeze on Faculty Pay" (LA Times - 3/5))

"A Task as Large as Africa Itself" - Telling the Story of Higher Education on the Continent (Christian Science Monitor - 3/4)

"The Value of Virtue: Students Size Up Businesses in a New Couse on Social Responsibility" (Christain Science Monitor - 3/4)

"Harvard Professor Proposes Alternative Economics Class" (NY Times - 3/4)

"College Towns Fight Student Slums" (USA Today - 3/3)

"From Lehman College to the Persian Gulf" (NY Times - 3/2)

"5,000 Yale Workers Plan to Go on Strike" (NY Times - 3/1)

"Student Groups Plan Walkout to Protest War" (NY Times - 3/1)

Iraqi Academic Take Sour View of U.S. Policy"  (Reuters - 2/28)

Editorial: "Lowering Higher Education" (NY Times - 2/28)

"Maryland Colleges Warn About State Cuts" (Washington Post - 2/28)

"(Big) Red Faces At Cornell Over E-Mail Error" (NY Times - 2/28)

"Connecticut College Cancels Classes to Discuss Problems of Racism" (Brown Daily Herald - 2/27)

"Title IX Panel's Proposals Tossed" (SF Chronicle - 2/27)

"USF Fires Al-Arian" (Tampa Tribune- 2/27)

U-Mass: "Romney's Campus Plan Would Cut Deficit, and a Political Foe" (NY Times - 2/27)

"Oregon State U Professor Files Suit Against Former Student" (Corvallis Democrat-Herald - 2/27)

"Romney Targets UMass President" (Daily Hampshire Gazette - 2/26)

"Tuition Hikes Turn Students Into Lobbyists" (Christian Science Monitor - 2/25)

"CUNY Chief Gives Tenure to Professor in Brooklyn" (NY Times - 2/25)

"Multinationals Poised to Apply for University Status" (UK Guardian - 2/25)

"Player Turns Back on Flag" (Associated Press - 2/24)

"Professor in Terror Indictments Was a Bush Supporter" (Boston Globe - 2/24)

Patriot Act: "Scholar's Terrorism Case Will be a Test" (Miami Herald - 2/24)

"SUNY Students to Pataki: Back Off" (Newsday - 2/24)

U. Michigan Case: "3 See College Suit as a Way to Show They Belonged" (NY Times - 2/23)

Geo. Mason & Baghdad Univ. Forum: "U.S., Iraqi Students Remain Miles Apart" (Washington Post - 2/23) 

"Army Summons College Students for Duty" (Associated Press - 2/22)

"At Columbia University, Rewriting a Journalism Curriculum" (NY Times - 2/22)

"U. of Michigan Draws a New Type of Recruit" (NY Times - 2/21)

"Proud Past, Uncertain Future: Some Historically Black Colleges Are Fighting for Their Lives" (Detroit Free Press - 2/21)

"Indictment Ties U.S. Professor and 8 Others to Terror Group" (NY Times -2/21)

"In-State Tuition No Longer Applies; Senate Passes Bill Aimed At Illegals" (Richmond Times Dispatch - 2/20)

"Graduate Students OK Strike At Yale" (Hartford Courant - 2/20)

"MSU Helps Foreign Students Meet U.S. Immigration Rules" (Detroit Free Press - 1/20)

"The College Cost Dilemma" (Christian Science Monitor - 2/19)

"Justifying a Liberal Arts Education in Hard Times" (NY Times - 2/19)

"Colleges Ponder Diversity's Future" (Philadelphia Inquirer - 2/19)

"Special Report: College Affordability in Jeopardy" (National Crosstalk - Winter/ 2003)

"Groups Support University of Michigan Affirmative Action Case (NY Times - 2/18)

"Electronic Tracking System Monitors Foreign Students (NY Times - 2/17)

"Students at New York Private Colleges Share Pain of Aid Cuts" (NY Times - 2/17)

"Univ. of Minnesota Hopes To Shelter Students From Big Tuition Increases" (Minneapolis Star Tribune - 2/14)

"College-Entrance Preferences for the Well Connected Draw Ire" (NY Times - 2/13)

"Yale Unions May Strike on March 1" (Associated Press - 2/13)

"Fed Up With Cuts and Hikes, Students Prepare to March on Albany" (Village Voice - 2/12)

"Democrats in Albany Vow to Fight Pataki's Cuts in Higher Education" (NY Times - 2/12)

"SUNY Chancellor Takes Heat" (Albany Times-Union - 2/12)

"Affirmative Action, Texas Style, Stirs Criticism" (Christian Science Monitor - 2/12)

"University Students Face More Tuition Costs Prompting Experts to Question If State Schools are Pricing Themselves Out of Market" (Houston Chronicle - 2/12)

"Perry Asks Deeper Cuts for Universities, Health for Poor/ Sets Aside $390 Million To Lure New Business to Texas" (Houston Chronicle - 2/12)

"Cambridge First With Electronic Archive" in UK (UK Guardian - 2/11)

"Tuition Hikes in Mass. Top US, Study Says" (Boston Globe - 2/11)

"State Funding Growth to Colleges Lowest in a Decade" (Reuters - 2/11)

"State Tuitions Tied For Second-Largest Hike" (Houston Chronicle - 2/11)

"Tuition Hikes Spur Talk Of A Cap" (Indianapolis Star - 2/11)

"MIT Drops a Minority-Only Policy" (Boston Globe - 2/11)

"Era of Meaness? Keeping Welfare Recipients Out of College" (Gotham Gazette - 2/10)

Audio: "Pedagogy and Patriotism With Peter Gibbon and Howard Zinn" (Connection/NPR - 2/10)

"Ex-Coach Takes On a Higher Cause; Dean Smith is Working to End the Death Penalty in His State" (Chicago Tribune - 2/9)

"Bush's Opposition to Racial Preferences Gets Big Support" (LA Times - 2/6)

"Teachers' Colleges Call For Uniform Testing" (Education Week - 2/5)

Opinion: "State Can Increase Access to Higher Education" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer - 2/5)

"Does High Stakes Testing Hurt Students?" (Education Week - 2/5)

"A Deep Divide Between Student Aid and Student Need" (Christian Science Monitor - 2/4)

"Harvard Is Returning Donation From Jane Fonda for New Center" (NY Times - 2/4)

"Community Colleges Cancel Courses Over State Budget Woes" (San Diego Union Tribune)

"Two More Weeks to Comply: Colleges Begin Tracking Foreign Students' Status" (Christian Science Monitor - 2/4)

"More in College Seek Help for Psychological Problems" (NY Times - 2/3)

"At Public Universities in California and Texas, the End of Affirmative Action in Admissions has Benefited One Minority: Asian-Americans" (NY Times - 2/2)

"Arizona is Committing Slow Economic Suicide by Underfunding Its Universities" (Arizona Republic - 2/2)

"Tuition Hikes Tough for Many (Arizona Republic - 2/2)

"Anti-War Academics See Hopes In U.S. Fading (Reuters - 2/1)

"New Topic in Black Studies Debate: Latinos" (NY Times - 2/1)

"Colleges Starting to Slash" (Dallas Morning News - 2/1)

"CUNY Says It Must Raise Tuition but Will Try to Limit Increase (NY Times - 1/31)

"Pataki Plan Cuts Education at All Levels" (NY Times - 1/30)

Chancellor's Proposal: "Taking the Sting Out of Tuition" (NY Post - 1/30)

"Future of College Teams Could Hinge on Title IX Decision" (SF Chronicle - 1/30)

"Top Students Find Two-Year Schools a Bargain" (Albany Times-Union - 1/30)

"Researchers Call SAT Alternative
Better Predictor of College Success" (Education Week - 1/29)

"CSU Considers Fee Hike" (LA Daily News - 1/29)

"College Loans Rise, Swamping Dreams" (NY Times - 1/28)

"Service Academies Defend Their Use of Race in Admission Policies" (NY Times - 1/28)

Proposed UK Tuition Increases: "Students Planning One-Day Shutdown" (BBC - 1/27)

"Student, Faculty Groups Fear a Return of Spying Abuses Against Activists, Foreign Nationals" (Washington Post -  1/25)

"Colleges to Start Tracking Foreign Students" (St. Paul Pioneer Press - 1/25)

"Princeton May Join Harvard in Backing U-Michigan Admissions Policy" (Daily Princetonian - 1/24)

"Proposed Title IX Reforms Draw Fire / Scholarship Funding for Women Could Be Cut" (San Francisco Chronicle - 1/24)

"Universities Settle Women's Sex Bias Suits"{ (St Paul Pioneer Press - 1/24)

Tuition Increase Likely for U-Maryland System" (Baltimore Sun - 1/23)

"Britain Considers Plan To Overhaul Higher Education Financing" (NY Times - 1/23)

"Higher-ed Vouchers Gaining Support" (Denver Post - 1/22)

"Worst Year Since 1974 for College Endowments" (Chicago Sun-Times - 1/21)

"Powell Disagrees With Bush on Affirmative Action" (Washington Post - 1/20)

Harvard Study: "Reversal In School Diversity is Cited" (Boston Globe - 1/19)

"Foreign Students Grounded by New Visa Regulations" (Boston Globe  - 1/19)

"SUNY Trustees Vote 41% Raise In-State Tuition" (NY Times - 1/18)

"Minority Enrollment Lags Under Plans Bush Favors" (Detroit Free Press - 1/17)

"Race-Neutral Plans Have Limits In Aiding Diversity, Experts Say ' (Washington Post - 1/17)

"U.S. Says Michigan System Amounts to 'Racial Quota'" (NY Times - 1/17)

"UC Berkeley Chancellor Drops Censorship Action" (LA Daily News - 1/17)

"U-Penn Peace Demonstrators Ready For Road (Philadelphia Inquirer - 1/17

"Tuition May Increase At City Colleges" (NY-1 - 1/16)

"Bush Opposes U-Michigan Affirmative Action" (Detroit News - 1/16)

Text: "Bush Statement on Affirmative Action" (NY Times - 1/16)

"Dreams Of College Need More Aid, Feds Told" (Atlanta Constitution - 1/16)

"Student Financial Aid Is In Peril" (Indianapolis Star - 1/16)

"Harvard Bids to Stimulate Public Service" (NY Times - 1/16)

"Loyola Offers Free Tuition to Would-Be Teachers (Education Week - 1/15)

Academic Freedom: "Old Words on War Stirring a New Dispute at Berkeley" (NY Times - 1/14)

"University Students Face Soaring Fees" (Toronto Globe and Mail - 1/14)

"College Fee Proposal Jars Students" (Contra Costa Times - 1/14)

"SUNY Trustees to Consider Tuition Proposal on Friday" (Newsday - 1/13)

"Higher College Costs Strain Middle Class" (Houston Chronicle - 1/13)

Univ. of Michigan Case: "White House Will Oppose Affirmative Action Policy" (Chicago Sun-Times - 1/12)

Digital Alternatives: "Beyond the Blackboard" (NY Times - 1/12)

"In Virtual Museums: An Archive of the World" (NY Times - 1/12)

"State Support for Higher Ed Falls as Demand Increases" (Minneapolis Star Tribune - 1/12)

"Bush Lawyers Lay Groundwork to Oppose U-M Affirmative Action Policy" (Detroit News - 1/11)

"Foreign Students Fear New Tracking" (Detroit News - 1/10)

"Maryland Tuition May Rise for the Coming Semester" (Washington Post - 1/10)

"Tuition Sticker Shock: Students Stamp Failing Grade on Increase (NY Daily News - 1/8)

"Tuition Hike in the Works: Expect Gov To Push 20% Rise at CUNY and SUNY" (NY Daily News - 1/7)

"College Free-Press Case Heads To Federal Appeals Court" (Cybercast News Network - 1/7)

"Columbia's Internet Concern Will Soon Go Out of Business" (NY Times - 1/7)

"Israel Closes  Palestinian Universities After Bombings" (Chicago Sun-Times - 1/6)

"Data on Foreign Students Required" (Miami Herald - 1/6)

"Affirmative Action Faces New Wave of Anger" (NY Times - 1/5)

"Schools Balk at U.S. Vetting Researchers" (Boston Globe - 1/4)

"Fear of Terror Limits University Research: Government Imposes Prior Approval Restrictions" Including Participation by Foreign Students (Corpus Christi Caller Times - 1/3)

"Students Earn Degree of Separation: N.J. university lets students graduate with courses taken at county colleges" (Philadelphia Inquirer - 1/3)

"Penn Ordered to Pay Researcher $2.9 Million" (Philadelphia Inquirer - 1/2)

"New Baby Boom Swamps Colleges - Huge Enrollments Hit as Budgets Are Cut" (USA Today - 1/2)

Free Speech: "Ex Penn Leader Writes of Scarring Culture War" (Philadelphia Inquirer - 1/2)

Great Britain: "Racism 'Stops Black Staff Getting Top College Jobs'" (UK Independent - 1/2)

"Professors Vie With Web for Class's Attention" (NY Times - 1/2)

"M.I.T. Studies Accusations of Lies and Cover-Up of Flaws in Antimissile System" (NY Times - 1/2)

Commentary: "Single Gender Ed - Not Just an Alternative" (Christian Science Moniitor - 12/30)

"University Plans Workshops After INS Arrests" (CNN - 12/29)

Arizona State Univ. Study: "More Schools Rely on Tests, but Study Raises Doubts" (NY Times - 12/28)

Opinion: "Getting to Work - Why Veto A Bill [Allowing] Welfare Recipients To Attend Basic Education Classes?" (Albany Times Union - 12/27)

"FBI Seeks Data on Foreign Students: Colleges Call Request Illegal" (Washington Post - 12/25)

"Lott Clouds Univ. of Michigan Lawsuit: His Resignation May Alter Bush Stance on Affirmative Action (Detroit News - 12/24)

"Is the 'Push' Mentality Warping Higher Ed?" (Christian Science Monitor - 12/24)

Opinion: "Pricing Students Out of a College Degree" (Indianapolis Star - 12/23)

"As Early Admissions Rise, Colleges Debate Practice (NY Times - 12/23)

"Threat of More College Strikes" (BBC - 12/20)

"Advocates of Title IX Voice Concern on [Presidential] Panel" (NY Times - 12/20)

"College Students Get Look at Other Side : Substitute Teaching A Plum Vacation Job" (Washington Post - 12/20)

"Italian MPs Threaten to Censor Textbooks" (UK Guardian - 12/18)

Chancellor "Reviewing" Brooklyn College History Department Controversy (NY Times - 12/18)

"After 9/11, Universities Are Destroying Biological Agents" (NY Times - 12/17)

"Fewer Declare Race on PSAT and SAT; Financial Aid at Risk" (Baltimore Sun - 12/17)

"Rocky Year For Colleges: Budget Deficits and Concerns for Free Speech" (Christian Science Monitor - 12/17)

"Judge's Free-Tuition Ruling Stuns University of Missouri" (NY Times - 12/17)

"State's Campuses Raise Fees / UC Up 11.2% and CSU 10% Despite Outcry From Students" (San Francisco Chronicle - 12/17)

"Junior Colleges Try Niche as Path to Top Universities' (NY Times - 12/15)

"Job Listings Decline 20% at Colleges" (NY Times - 12/14)

"On Campuses, Diversity Plans at Risk" (Boston Globe - 12/12)

"City College Head Is Finalist for Top Job in Iowa" (NY Times - 12/12)

"Italy's University Heads Resign Over Budget Cuts: Embarrassment for Government of Silvio Berlusconi" (UK Guardian - 12/11)

BMCC: "Spending Saturday Night in the Classroom, and Liking It" (NY Times - 12/11)

"Yale Graduate Student Union Files Labor Complaint" (Associated Press - 12/11)

Regents Report: "CUNY Maintains Diverse Class With Tougher Admissions Rules" -- But Critics Disagree (NY Times - 12/11)

"Higher Education Now, Says World Bank" (All Africa - 12/11)

"Women Who Lead Colleges See Slower Growth in Ranks" (NY Times - 12/9)

"Colleges to Track  Foreigners" (Contra Costa Times -12/8)

"Using Synonyms for Race, College Strives for Diversity'" (NY Times - 12/8)

"Student-Activists May Expel Yale President" (Columbia Daily Spectator - 12/6)

"Marchers Against Fees Target Blair" (UK Daily Telegraph - 12/5)

"Non-Tenured Instructors Feel Relegated to Second Class" (USA Today - 12/5)

BMCC Press Conference: "Sen. Clinton Vows To Fight Cuts To Federal Education Funding"  (NY 1 - 12/3)

"Students Confront New School University President Bob Kerrey" on Iraq Role (Democracy Now - 12/5)

"Justices to Review College Admissions: '78 Ruling on Race Created Confusion" (Chicago Tribune - 12/2)

"Supreme Court to Revisit Colleges' Diversity Efforts" (NY Times - 12/2)

Primary Defendants in Affirmative Action Lawsuit: "Bollinger, Coleman Address Importance of Court's Decision" (Univ. of Michigan Daily - 12/3)

"Debate on War With Iraq Is Entering the Classroom" (NY Times - 12/1)

Iranian Students Protest Against Theocracy (Economist - 11/28)

Opinion: "Is Harvard Ditching Free Speech/"  by Scott Lehigh (Boston Globe - 11/27) 

Opinion: "Testing Speech Codes" by Allan Dershowitz (Boston Globe - 11/27)

"University of Tennessee Won't Punish Students Who Appeared in Blackface" (NY Times - 11/27)

"First Woman 'Boss' for Cambridge in 800 years (UK Guardian - 11/27)

Opinion: "A Radical Prof's Union" (NY Post - 11/27)

Free Speech or Harassment: "Rights and Wrongs on Campus" (Christian Science Monitor - 11/26)

"U-Va. Expels 48 Students After Plagiarism Probe" (Washington Post - 11/26)

"Testing Firm to Pay Students $7 Million for grading Goof "(Minneapolis Star Tribune - 11/26)

"Foreign Student Enrollment Steady Despite Scrutiny" (San Francisco Chronicle - 11/25)

"FBI focus on Iraqi Professor Sparks a Protest at UMass" (Boston Globe - 11/24)

"Visa Policy Hinders Research" (Dallas Morning News - 11/24)

"Corporate Culture and Big Pay Come to Nonprofit Testing Service" (NY Times - 11/23)

"At Black Colleges, Disparate Fortunes " (Washington Post - 11/23)

Budget Cuts May Force End Of CUNY Scholarship Program (NY1 - 11/22)

Audio: "Students Protest War and New School President Bob Kerrey" (Democracy Now - 11/21)

Audio: "Economy, Scandals Cast Shadow on MBA Recruitment" (NPR - 11/20)t  

"Editorial: Foreign Students, All Clear - Critical That Government Meet Its Own January 30 Deadline" (Christian Science Monitor - 11/19)

"The Internet Gives College Cheaters a High-Tech Edge" (Salt Lake Tribune -11/18)

"Fairleigh Dickinson Finds Errors in I.N.S. Database" (NY Times - 11/17)

Stock Market Investment "Plan Lets Families Save for Array of College Expenses : Program Has More Choices, More Risk " (Jacksonville Times-Union - 11/17)

"Salaries of 27 College Presidents Top $500,000 Mark (Boston Globe - 11/17)

"On Issue of Israel, Campuses Can't Tell Left From Right" (NY Times - 11/17)t

"Morehouse Chief Vows Talks on Gay Issues [In Response to Homophobic Beating of Student]"  (Atlanta Journal Constituiton - 11/16)

"The Ruin Of Britain's Universities: Too Little Money To Do Their Job Properly" (The Economist - 11/15)

Editorial: "Ever Increasing Tuition Will Doom the State's Future" (Detroit Free Press - 11/15)

Wesleyan University  Sidewalk Grafitti: "Dirty Sidewalks, or Just Naughty?" (NY Times - 11/15)

"UN: Global Education Gulf Deepening" (CNN - 11/13)

"Justices to Hear Internet Porn Case
Court Will Decide Whether Requiring Libraries to Use Filtering Software Violates Constitution" (Washington Post - 11/13)

Poetry Reading at Harvard Cancelled Following  Protests About Anti Israel Views (UK Guardian - 11/13)

"Struggling Edison 'Reversioning'
Its School Expertise" (Education Week - 11/13)

"WVU Eases Campus-Speech Rules" (Washington Times - 11/13)

"An Academic Retreat For Ex-African Presidents" (NY Times - 11/13)

"Colleges Find Diversity Is Not Just Numbers" (NY Times - 11/12)

"Foreign Students Enrollment Up at U.S. Colleges (Reuters - 11/10)

"College Anxiety at Record High" (Houston Chronicle - 11/10)

"Suddenly, State Colleges Have More Allure" (NY Times - 11/10)

"Tuition Hikes Undermine College Hopes" (Houston Chronicle - 11/10)

"MP For Making Miltary Education [in India] Compulsory" ( Hindustani Times - 11/10)

"New York State School Superintendents Telling Colleges to Disregard Physics Scores on State Exams" (Associated Press- 11/9)

College Copyright Cops Are Privacy Risk, Group Says (Reuters - 11/6)

"Wellstone Recalled as Friend of Public Education" (Education Week - 11/6)

"Part-Time Profs Try to Strike a New Bargain - Union Organizing on the Rise" (Christian Science Monitor - 11/5)

"MIT to Create Digital Library"  (Boston Globe - 11/5)

"Texas Colleges May Be [Diversity} Model That Could Replace Racially Explicit Admissions" (Washington Post - 11/5) 

Minnesota Regents Flout Open Meeting law (St. Paul Pioneer Press - 11/5)

"Boom's End Is Felt Even at Wealthy Colleges" (NY Times - 11/5)

"Analysis and Commentary: Edison - An 'F' in Finance" (Business Week - 11/4)

"Privatizing Perils" (Arizona Daily Star - 11/2)

"With Cheating on the Rise, More Colleges Are Turning to Honor Codes" (NY Times - 11/2)

"Educators Give CUNY "A" For Tough Standards" (NY Post - 11/2)

"Task Force Recommends New Free Speech Policy" (Daily Texan- 11/2)

"University of Michigan to Develop Nation's First Child Welfare Attorney Certification Program" (Boston Globe - 11/2)

"B's, Not Need, Are Enough for Some State Scholarships" (NY Times - 10/31)

"Harvard Invested Heavily in Harken...Nearly Two-Thirds Larger Than...Previously Acknowledged" (Boston Globe - 10/30)

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