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Campus Clearance
College employees in Pennsylvania who work with minors will have to pass regularly scheduled background checks under state's new child protection laws.
'Privatization and the Public Good'
New book acknowledges the drift by public colleges as state funding has flattened and in some cases fallen -- but argues that the trend does not mean the institutions must abandon their missions.
State-Related Community Colleges
Illinois leads list of states where community colleges already get only a single-digit percentage of their budgets from the state, and more cuts may be on the way.
Gaming the System
Public colleges may be using grade inflation or tightening admissions standards to comply with performance-based funding, survey finds.
Mass Education
Higher ed officials in Massachusetts, where private colleges have long dominated, ask for a major investment in the public system.
The States' 'Great Retreat'
Documenting state disinvestment in public higher ed (and especially community colleges), think tank report urges new federal-state "compact."
Boost for Need-Based Aid
States last year kept their spending on student aid roughly the same -- but they invested more heavily in grant programs based on financial need rather than merit.
The Long View on Wages
Virginia releases the first detailed look at mid-career earnings of college graduates, but the report warns against broad, oversimplified conclusions about the data.