Kentucky News - January 14, 2013

State:

• Mearns, committee to start work on strategic plan for NKU (The Northerner)
• Beshear announces agency bond plan, includes Honors College & International Center (WKU Herald)
• WKU makes effort to retain struggling students (WKU Herald)
• Insight and inspiration for GED seekers (Bowling Green Daily News)
• Grant pays for help in schools (Cincinnati.com)
• Will longer school year help or hurt US students? (The Paducah Sun)
• Superintendent talks about safety in schools (The Richmond Register)
• State offers no money for textbooks (Daily Independent)
• UK proposes to self-fund campus transformation (The Lane Report)
• 3 WKU Professors Win Nature Award (WBKO)
• Long school year's merits debated (The Couier-Journal)
• Education Week ranks Kentucky 10th (The Couier-Journal)
• Beshear tells Vice President he's 'open' to gun ideas, requests funds for school safety (CNl2)
• OCTC to kick off fund drive (Messenger-Inquirer)

National:

• Minority Applicants to Colleges Will Rise Significantly by 2020 (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Declines in Tuition Revenue Leave Many Colleges Financially Squeezed (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• MOOCs Assessed, Modestly (Inside Higher Ed)