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RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) — Enrollment of minorities in U.S. colleges has increased substantially in recent years, but not fast enough to keep up with demographic changes. Among Hispanics, a lower proportion who are in their late 20s has completed at least a two-year degree when compared with those age 30 and older.

GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Schools in the Massachusetts city where girls reportedly made a "pregnancy pact" will allow contraceptives to be distributed — with parental consent.

By Genaro Armas, Associated Press
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Perennial college football powerhouse Penn State University is promoting glossy trading cards similar to those collected by sports fans. Only, there's no card for Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno or any of his Nittany Lions.

A Harvard Business School alumnus has given the university its largest individual donation ever — $125 million to start a bioengineering institute, the school announced Tuesday.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The buffet offers a variety of pizzas, with whole wheat crust, organic toppings and hormone-free cheese. The salad bar includes some greens and vegetables grown without pesticides in a nearby garden

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Al Palmer has a slim build, an easy smile, and a near-insatiable hunger for human flesh. Palmer, 27, of Litchfield, Maine, is an industrial-design student at Rochester Institute of Technology. He wears in his headband the IDs of 17 students who had been humans until he tagged them, turning them into zombies.

A new law in Rhode Island requires all public middle and high schools to teach students about...He'd incessantly call her at night, keep her from her family, and, ultimately, physically abuse her during a tumultuous relationship that ended with her death three years ago.

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — University of Colorado freshman Darian Salehy loves college life so far — except for one thing. "It's all white people," Salehy mused on the Boulder campus lawn recently, looking at fellow students headed to class.

Chris Patten told an educators conference it was "intolerable" the government barred Oxford and other universities from charging students more than about 3,000 pounds ($5,300) a year for their schooling. He noted top British private primary and secondary schools charge much more

By Marco R. della Cava
PALO ALTO, Calif. — The unsparing tsunami of bad news created by the collapse of storied Wall Street banking firms has made its way 3,000 miles to the palm-studded campus of Stanford University. "Every day, it only seems to get worse," says Ben Sloop, 29, of Atlanta, one of 740 students seeking an MBA at an institution known for incubating tomorrow's business stars.

NEWBERG, Ore. (AP) — A Christian university in Oregon said Tuesday it has punished four students who confessed to hanging a likeness of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus.

MIAMI — For more than a decade, as the immigration debate has swelled on both sides of the border, the Mexican government has been quietly providing money, materials and even teachers to American schools, colleges and nonprofit organizations

Despite good salaries and plenty of perks, a recent study found that the average urban superintendent nationwide stays on the job only about three years — which educators say isn't enough time to enact meaningful, long-lasting reform.

Some prisons turn to education to reduce the rate of recidivism and to give inmates hope for their