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The Possible New Pell Grant: $4,925
Congressional compromise would lift maximum grant by $125 more than $490 rise approved in budget act; NIH would receive $30 billion. Bush veto likely.
A Different View of the Middle East
Scholars who don't like direction of the field form new group, vowing not to be politicized. Others say the founders are exactly those who have politicized the discipline.
Williams Drops Loans and Wesleyan Curbs Them
Movement to eliminate student borrowing grows -- and Davidson College, which did so in the spring, reports gains as a result.
A College-Friendly Take on Rising Prices
Hearing on rising tuitions, normally a scary topic for higher ed officials, treads gently and focuses on proposal to ensure better state funding of public colleges.
Imperfect Peek Into the Police Blotter
A new FBI report offers a (less than complete) look at the overall nature of crimes at schools and colleges: most are assaults, vandalism or theft.
The Education Department's Activist Agenda
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings continues to try to counter the twin perceptions of her Education Department as lax on enforcement...
A Satisfied Full-Time Faculty
National survey of 4-year-college professors finds that they are happier with their jobs than other Americans are with theirs -- but some areas of dissatisfaction jump out.