Highlights

Feature Story:
The party's over
With state budgets in deficit, unions fight to limit cuts to higher education

Campus Clips
College access is limited for poorer kids
Athletes organize to reform NCAA

News and Trends
Union takes on academic freedom in Florida
Trujillo elected president of New Mexico AFL-CIO
Union protests CUNY's immigrant tuition policy
Penn grad employees file with NLRB
Bargaining law moves forward in Wash.
Pa. will study impact of part-timers
Higher ed's leadership group meets
Lessons to be learned from Enron
Mark your calendars

Technology
Oversold and underused:  Why faculty don't use computers in the classroom

TechNotes
Ready or not for a high-tech work force?
Rooting out plagiarism

Your Money
When should you crack your nest egg?

Washington Wire
Distance education and international issues heat up
Applying GATS to higher education
A narrowing view of ADA
Pells go up to $4,000