Taking sides
Inside Higher Ed (3/16/10)
The U.S. Supreme Court is about to consider a higher education case that has largely been seen as pitting the rights of gay students against the rights of religious students. But on Monday, the deadline for various groups to file briefs in the case, major higher education associations entered the dispute, arguing that the case should really be seen as about academic freedom.

Array of hurdles awaits new education agenda
New York Times (3/15/10)
In the blueprint for overhauling federal education policy that President Obama sent to Congress on Monday, his administration seeks to confront some of the major educational challenges that have developed during the eight years that President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law has been a powerful influence on the nation’s public schools.

Students to march to Capitol to speak against proposed cuts
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (3/14/10)
Georgia's college students are tired of being stuck in the middle. Since learning that hundreds of millions of dollars could be slashed from the state's higher education budget, students have formed activist groups to educate their peers and lobby for change.

In Virginia

W&M student hopes to serve new home on council
WY Daily (3/15/10)
Scott Foster, a senior at William and Mary, is a country boy who says he’s found his new home in Williamsburg and wants to do what he can to preserve the quality of life. Foster says he hadn’t contemplated running for city council until after he moved to Walnut Hills last summer.

UVa, others escape tough paring measures
Daily Progress (3/15/10)
The General Assembly has spared the state’s higher education system — including the University of Virginia — deeper budget cuts than previously expected. The budget passed by the General Assembly on Sunday is very similar to that proposed by former Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and omits, for the most part, further higher educations cuts officials feared might be made.

PHCC nursing students teach children healthy habits
Martinsville Bulletin (3/16/10)
Patrick Henry Community College nursing students are becoming teachers this semester through a program that promotes healthy habits in children at the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Blue Ridge.