STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Harvard University and tiny Luther College are separated by half a continent, and the gap may be even wider when it comes to name-recognition.

HACKENSACK - Projected budget shortfalls likely will change the way extension services will be provided to people living in Minnesota counties.

Contracts for the most recent Central Lakes College presidents in Brainerd are as follows:

Barack Obama has a problem. He really, really doesn't want this campaign to be about race. He wants it to be about change, President Bush, the economy, gas prices, Iraq, Afghanistan - almost anything else. But it is going to be about race, at least in part. That's the lesson of recent weeks, when the McCain campaign brought up race (on the pretext that Obama had brought it up first). The Obama campaign tried desperately to change the subject but couldn't. Once the chum was in the water, the media sharks went wild.

SAN DIEGO - The room was in dire need of a jolt - at least those people not adequately caffeinated - and Roy Kramer, having heard enough rhetoric, provided that jump-start Monday at the NCAA convention.

Alcohol-related arrests on college campuses surged 24.3 percent in 1998, the largest jump in seven years, according to a survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Congress directed more than $1 billion to specific colleges and universities in the federal budget this year, a record for a noncompetitive process critics assail as pork barrel spending, The Chronicle of Higher Education says in a report being issued Sunday.

If colleges don't measure their performance politicians might Leaders in Washington, including President-elect George W. Bush and lawmakers vying to head the House Education Committee, say that federal aid to colleges and universities will increasingly be determined by how well they impart specific skills to students.