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<title>Student Loan Chutzpah -Editorial (Wall Street Journal)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a nearby letter (&quot;Congress Is Right on Student Loans&quot;), Republican Congressman Tom Petri writes that we have been &quot;sold a bill of goods on student loans.&quot;  Our sin is to oppose a government takeover of college financing, which will take a giant leap forward if Congress jams its pending student-loan changes on to the health-care reconciliation bill.  In fact, Congress has been selling its own bill of goods since 1965, when it created student-loan subsidies, and both parents and taxpayers have found that there is nothing cost-effective about it.]]></description>
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<title>Obama prepares education overhaul (Associated Press)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to rewrite the nation&#39;s sweeping and controversial education law known as No Child Left Behind with a plan to prepare students for life after high school and to place better teachers at the blackboards.  Although Obama&#39;s weekly address was short on specifics, the president has been clear he is eyeing sweeping change. He has already been using federal money as leverage to push schools to raise standards and prepare more children for college or work.]]></description>
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<title>Obamas contradictions on education (Washington Post - The Answer Sheet Blog)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What do the 10 organizations to which President Obama donated his Nobel Prize Award have in common'  They all work to help underserved populations of young people get ready to attend and be successful in college.  Obama has said repeatedly that his education goal is to make sure that every child has that opportunity.  Yet his education policies to this point cannot ever reach this goal. Nor can they do what he promised during the presidential campaign: Stop high-stakes standardized testing from driving our public education system.]]></description>
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<title>College Application 2.0: The Video Essay (NPR - All Things Considered)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[High school seniors are hoping to impress colleges by sending videos of themselves at work and at play. The mini-movies range from slick creative productions to amateur-hour card tricks. Although many say there&#39;s no stopping the YouTube generation from making and submitting their &quot;video essays,&quot; others worry the application process is becoming more like American Idol.]]></description>
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<title>How Admissions Officers Pick Students (NPR - All Things Considered)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[College admissions officers are weeding through a record number of applications this year. Kathleen Kingsbury, an education reporter for the Daily Beast, spent time inside the room with admissions officers as they sift through applications. Kingsbury discusses what makes a student stand apart.]]></description>
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<title>The Money Trail: Did New Jersey University Misspend Federal Funds? (ABCNews.com - Brian Ross Blog)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Department of Homeland Security investigators have contacted New Jersey officials with questions about the fate of federal grant money awarded to Stevens Institute of Technology to help improve the nation&#39;s port security, ABC News has learned.  Two state officials described the federal inquiries about the possible misuse of nearly $3 million in Homeland Security grant money distributed to the college, which has spent months under fire over allegations that it mismanaged its books.]]></description>
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<title>Pell Grant Increase Could Be Cut as Talks Intensify on Student-Aid Bill (Chronicle of Higher Education)</title>
<link>http://www.naicu.edu/news_room/news_detail.asp?id=7725</link>
<description><![CDATA[After months of waiting for action on a bill that would revamp the federal student-loan system, Congress appears to be moving at an accelerated pace, with possible budget cuts now being identified to reflect savings that are lower than originally expected.]]></description>
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<title>With student loan bill on verge of vote, new priorities in education funding (Washington Post)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the final push to pass a major student aid bill pending in Congress, funding for key elements in President Obama&#39;s education agenda is dwindling. A scramble is underway to determine what initiatives will be funded and what will be cut if, as expected, the loan overhaul merges with health-care legislation that appears headed for a final vote soon.]]></description>
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<title>Yellow Ribbon Program 2010-11 Agreement Materials Now Available (NAICU Washington Update)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Department of Veterans Affairs announced today that it will begin accepting Yellow Ribbon Program Agreements for the 2010-11 academic year on Monday, March 15.  Completed agreements are due by May 21. More information is available on the VA Web site, where the 2010-11 Yellow Ribbon agreement form and instructions can be downloaded.]]></description>
<category>Gov. Rels. - Wash. Update</category>
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<title>Student aid cuts will harm state in the long run - Opinion Piece (Watertown, N.Y., Daily Times)</title>
<link>http://www.naicu.edu/news_room/news_detail.asp?id=7722</link>
<description><![CDATA[As a taxpayer, I am deeply concerned that New York faces difficult financial challenges. Yet, as a university leader advancing economic development for New York, I know investing in education for our current and future work force delivers one the best returns we can make as a society.  Please join me now in becoming part of the New York Student Aid Alliance and reminding our elected officials that creating access to education at the undergraduate and graduate levels is a good investment.]]></description>
<category>Presidential Opinion</category>
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<title>Bethany College (Kan.) Addressing Ongoing Budget Issues (KSAL, Salina, Kan.)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[According to the school, officials are dealing with budget pressures, including a deficit in the operating budget.  Bethany will continue to work toward a fundamental restructuring of its economic model to achieve long-term financial equilibrium, which includes a balanced budget and limited used of the endowment to preserve purchasing power.]]></description>
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<title>Want to save $50,000? Try a three-year college degree. (Christian Science Monitor)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Students always have had the option of finishing their degrees faster if they accumulate enough credits. And many more take five or six years to get through a four-year program. But recently, the idea of a structured three-year degree has gained traction, due in part to spiraling college costs and the struggling economy.  Some educators also question why the four-year, 120-credit model has to be the norm (unlike in Europe, where the standard is often three years).]]></description>
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<title>Deal Gives New Life to Overhaul of Student Loans (New York Times)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The deal would bundle President Obama&#39;s proposed overhaul of federal student loan programs into an expedited budget package along with the Democratic health care legislation, which would allow for both measures to be passed by the Senate on a simple majority vote.  Without the deal, the student loan bill would have been unlikely to pass because it lacked the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.]]></description>
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<title>Pat Tillmans legacy: more help for military veterans in college (USA Today/Inside Higher Ed)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Now partnered with eight universities across the country, the Pat Tillman Foundation&#39;s Tillman Military Scholars program offers funding to veterans who demonstrate a record of service to their communities and pledge to continue those activities.  The program disbursed $642,000 to its inaugural class of 52 veterans and their families last year, and its ultimate goal is to provide $3.6 million annually - an amount equivalent to the lucrative Arizona Cardinals contract Tillman turned down to join the Army Rangers after Sept. 11, 2001.]]></description>
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<title>Johns Hopkins plans to cut C02 emissions in half (Associated Press)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Johns Hopkins University says it plans to cut the school&#39;s carbon dioxide emissions in half over the next 15 years.  University officials released the plan Thursday saying they will invest more than $73 million in conservation and efficiency measures. The plan also calls for creation of an Environment, Sustainability and Health Institute.]]></description>
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<title>On the Barricades at Shimer - Column (Wall Street Journal)</title>
<link>http://www.naicu.edu/member_center/memberNews_detail.asp?id=7714</link>
<description><![CDATA[Everyone at Shimer believes in a great-books education, through which students study the profound questions of Western thought and civilization.  The &quot;family dispute&quot; is over how to govern this great-books school.  Should a community of scholars call the shots, as it has done over the past 30 years'  Or should the school be run by a chief executive, as the college&#39;s president thinks'  Is Shimer a Greek-style polis, as many Shimerians believe'  Or does it need to function more like a corporation, as the president contends']]></description>
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<title>Syracuse partners with Census Bureau to ensure completion of Census form (The Daily Orange, Syracuse University)</title>
<link>http://www.naicu.edu/member_center/memberNews_detail.asp?id=7718</link>
<description><![CDATA[SU is one of 91 colleges and universities statewide to actively partner with the Census Bureau to help obtain student information.  It is important for students to fill out the form because it determines how much money the Syracuse community receives, said Laura Walbon, a partnership specialist with the United States Census Bureau.  &quot;Nine months out of the year the students are living in that community, relying on public transportation, roads, hospitals, campus safety, that kind of thing,&quot; she said. &quot;It&#39;s allocated based on those numbers.&quot;]]></description>
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<title>More California youth applying to out-of-state universities, say admission officers (San Jose Mercury News)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[University officials at public and private schools across the country are reporting record levels of California applicants to next fall&#39;s freshman class - an intellectual flight pattern that worries public-policy experts, who fear students may never return.  The trend comes as the University of California and California State University systems are shedding courses, reducing enrollment and furloughing professors.  And many outside schools are boosting their recruitment of Golden State students.]]></description>
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<title>Chairman of Erskine College sues church denomination (Associated Press)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A top official with a private South Carolina college is asking a court to block the school&#39;s founding denomination from appointing new trustees, in what many see as a church versus college power struggle.  The lawsuit accuses the governing body of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of illegally removing nearly half of Erskine College&#39;s board earlier this month in a power grab.  The struggle between the liberal arts college and the denomination has been ongoing for more than three decades, said college spokesman Rick Hendricks.]]></description>
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<title>Student loan overhaul seems likely to join Senate health-care bill (Washington Post)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Senate Democrats said Thursday that they are inclined to add an overhaul of the nation&#39;s student loan program to the final health-care bill.  House and Senate leaders appeared to be closing in on a package of fixes to the Senate health-care bill that would clear the way for final passage of Obama&#39;s top domestic policy initiative.  The education proposal would be included in the fixes package, and protected from a GOP filibuster in the Senate under special budget reconciliation rules.]]></description>
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