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newsThis week’s items from InsideHigherEd.com are filled with legislation news regarding student financial aid plus news about enrollment figures.

HOUSE PASSES STUDENT AID BILL: Legislation to reshape loan programs and bolster Pell Grants and community colleges passes along partisan lines. Now focus shifts to the Senate:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/09/18/aid

MORE AID DOESN’T MEAN  MORE GRADUATES: Study finds that massive infusion of grant aid in Quebec increased students’ college going and persistence, but did not raise graduation rates:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/09/14/aid

STEEP HILL TO CLIMB: Lacking major push for college access like that envisioned by White House and others, enrollments would grow by only 13 percent through 2018, far short of President Obama’s goal, U.S. study finds:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/09/16/nces

GROWING GRADUATE ENROLLMENTS: Gains by female, minority and American students led to 4.5 percent increase in those starting programs in fall of 2008:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/09/16/enroll

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