AAHE announces plans to disband
After nearly 40 years of operation as a nonprofit organization, the American Association for Higher Education will disband.

AAHE officials say the decision to close in May is tied to a decline in membership. Since the 1990s, the AAHE has seen its membership base fall from a high of approximately 10,000 members to its current 6,000.

Many of the projects AAHE is spearheading will be transferred to colleges and other associations. The fate of the group’s magazine, Change, still has to be determined.

Grant helps digitize newspapers
As part of the National Digital Newspaper Project, the University of California at Riverside, the University of Florida Libraries in Gainesville, the University of Kentucky Research Foundation, the University of Utah, University of Virginia Library and the New York Public Library will share $1.9 million in grants to digitize 100,000 or more pages from the most historically significant newspapers published in those states between 1900 and 1910. The digital copies will then be available free on the Library of Congress’s Web site.