the amount of money they are going to spend from the endowment in order to lower tuition prices and to further research. The university is going to spend 1.15 billion of the endowment in 2009. Full details on lower tuition prices are not out yet.

The New York Times, Washington Post, and the AP report on this.

on students in Hospitality Management curriculum at some colleges in the USA.

high school students in Minnesota can get 1,200 bucks towards college. Students in the program need to take one of four rigorous programs of study to get this money. Family income though has to be under 75,000.

are eying a plan that would give pregnant students four to six weeks to recover after a pregnancy and be able to work on classwork from home.

going to be picketing student reassignment changes.

in an article by the Hartford Courant. It is a nice read.