Kentucky News - January 6, 2012

State:

• Education Day works for WKU (Daily News)
• Volunteer sparks children’s interest in art (Daily News)
• Beshear meets with Louisville hospital officials on merger ideas (The Courier-Journal)
• Calipari says lawmakers should worry about UK's infrastructure, not its basketball schedule (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• State status for UPike proposed at bad time (The News Enterprise)
• County scholarship fund planned (Messenger-Inquirer)
• College entrance rates top 50 percent for Class of 2010, survey says (Grayson County News Gazette)
• Government officials talk about UPIKE study (WKYT.com)
• Kentucky House Budget Chairman Expects Cuts to Education (WFPL.org)
• Governor says he'll quickly review UofL's suggestions to save hospital merger (cnl2)
• Former Mayor Pam Miller To Chair CPE (WUKY)
• Miller named chairman of postsecondary education council (Busines First of Louisville)
• Pam Miller named chair of CPE (Morehead State University News)

National:

• State colleges partner in mentor program (Grand Forks Herald)
• Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain (New York Times)
• Students of Online Schools Are Lagging (New York Times)
• For Small-College Presidents, Advice on Budgets and Bully Pulpits (The Chronicle of Higer Ed)
• So Much Fun. So Irrelevant. (New York Times)
• Opinion: Gig. U and the next innovation platform