Past Coverage

• Student-Aid Officials Say Efforts to Expand Access Need Widespread Backing - September 22, 2006
• At Private Colleges, Share of Aid to Wealthy Families Rose in 1990s - February 3, 2006
• White House Designs Aid Program to Help Colleges Keep Low-Income Students - February 4, 2000
• U. of Virginia Announces New Student-Aid Policy - February 20, 2004
• At Smith College, a Mission to Serve the Underserved - May 12, 2006

Recent News

• How a Scholarship Corporation Tried to Muzzle a Blogger

  The National Merit Scholarship Corporation used legal pressure to get a college counselor to remove state cutoff scores for its scholarships from her blog.

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  Tufts U.'s President Will Step Down to Return to Teaching

  After nine years in office, Lawrence S. Bacow says he is not interested in another presidency: "It's one and done for me."

• Coalition Seeks Better Conditions for Those Off the Tenure Track

  The group calls on colleges to give contingent faculty members better pay and support, but not all of its members have signed the statement.

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