7 area colleges accept the Yellow Ribbon challenge
Montgomery Advertiser (7/01/09)
Seven Montgomery colleges and universities have chosen to participate in a program that helps pay education expenses for veterans.

Paying college tuition with credit card gets costlier
USA Today (7/01/09)
Across the nation, a growing number of universities is making it harder — and costlier — for students to use credit cards.

Supreme Court Punts
INSIDE Higher ED (7/01/09)
The U.S. Supreme Court doesn't have to say why it takes some appeals and skips others. Those decisions are typically announced simply with a list of cases that will be considered. But legal experts note that one category of case the justices tend to take is a dispute in which the federal appeals courts are coming up with different approaches to the same issue.

In Virginia

U.Va. Receives Grant to Study Effect of Federal Stimulus on Science and Engineering Jobs
UVA Today (6/29/09)
The University of Virginia has received a National Science Foundation grant to research the impact of federal stimulus dollars on hiring in science and engineering.

TCC breaks ground for student center in Norfolk
Pilot on Line (6/30/09)
Darryl Thornton's hangout spots at the Tidewater Community College campus tend to be wherever the student can find a clear piece of wall outside one of the buildings.

Community Colleges See Demand Spike, Funding Slip
The Washington Post (7/01/09)
Hundreds of thousands of students are likely to be turned away from low-cost community colleges across the country over the next year because of funding cuts at the very time that record numbers of students are flocking to the open-admission schools, according to education officials.