Kentucky News - January 24, 2013

State:

• Fischer sets goal of hiring 800 youth this summer (Business First of Louisville)
• U of L’s Strong agrees to eight-year contract extension worth $3.7 million a year (Business First of Louisville)
• Housing explores expansion options (The Northerner)
• Small Walmart stores open on college campuses across nation (The News)
• Winter term reports increased enrollment (The News)
• Kentucky’s jobless rate dropped to 8.1 percent last month (The News)
• Human trafficking by the numbers: How Kentucky’s university students are leading the fight against modern slavery (The Louisville Cardinal)
• Computing Service combines campus tech (The Eastern Progress)
• List of presidential candidates to be narrowed (The Eastern Progress)
• Syllabi Index successful in first semester of use (The Eastern Progress)
• Eastern logs hours for community service award (The Eastern Progress)
• Yearbook and newspaper archives to become digitally available (The Eastern Progress)
• KSU Board of Regents Will Hold Retreat and Regular Meeting This Week (Kentucky State University News)
• Gold: bilingualism reduces Alzheimer’s risk (The Kentucky Kernel)
• Staff Trustee election to be held (The Kentucky Kernel)
• WKU Works With Library In Glasgow (WBKO)
• Commissioner Visits All 174 School Systems (WBKO)
• Kentucky Jobless Rate Drops (WBKO)
• World conference for gifted education to be conducted in Louisville (The Lane Report)
• The Chatter: Poll says Ky. favors Medicaid expansion; UK's survey shows equine industry worth $23 bil. (CN2)
• Schools face new $$ burden (The McCreary County Record)
• Board to decide on nonresident agreements (Daily Independent)
• East Main pedway in works (The State Journal)
• Safety still forefront in educators’ minds (The State Journal)
• County schools to consider early education change (The State Journal)
• MSU set to realize $9.3 million in energy savings with energy performance contact from Siemens (The Morehead News)
• Input sought in new school science guidelines (Messenger-Inquirer)
• Math competition counting on more kids (Messeinger-Inquirer)
• School cops get high-powered rifles (Messeinger-Inquirer)
• EKU, arts center continue to struggle over authority issue (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Thoroughbreds, trail-riding top Kentucky horse survey; $23.4 billion in assets identified (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• WKU part of project to forge career center (Bowling Green Daily News)
• Gateway's Manufacturing Pipeline Initiatives judged best in the nation (Cinninnati.com)
• Visible progress in construction projects (The Eastern Progress)
• Noel Studio to expand its help to students at regional campuses (The Eastern Progress)
• Eastern exceeds national scores on student survey (The Eastern Progress)
• Eastern links students with space station for a day (The Eastern Progress)
• Aviation students no longer asked to travel for exams (The Eastern Progress)
• Secretary of State Grimes to discuss civic health in Murray (The News)
• Norse achieve highest grades in athletics history (The Northerner)
• NKU no. 2 in state safety rankings (The Northerner)
• County district develops program targeting sixth-graders (Bowling Green Daily News)
• Maryville Elementary students learn college is an option (The Courier-Journal)
• Ball State pulls sponsorship of 7 charter schools (The Courier-Journal)
• MSU set to realize $9.3 million in energy savings with energy performance contract from Siemens (The Morehead News)
• MSU Corps seek donations for a build-a-bed project (Daily Independent)
• UK wins Alltech competition with plan to reclaim Eastern Kentucky mountaintops with switchgrass for fuel (The Lane Report)
• State Again Participating in Green Ribbon Program (WBKO)
• Partnership may bring career center (The News Enterprise)
• Funding education for Latino students would be an investment in city's future (Business First of Louisville)

National:

• American Dream 2.0 Report Declares High College Failure Rate a National Crisis (abc12)
• College Dropout Crisis Revealed In 'American Dream 2.0' Report (Huffington Post)
• College Chiefs Contemplate Completion (Inside Higher Ed)
• Minding the Money (Inside Higher Ed)
• Digital Learning, for the Learners (Inside Higher Ed)
• Global Development and Profits (Inside Higher Ed)
• Freshman Survey: This Year, Even More Focused on Jobs (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Report Calls for Renewed Focus on Raising College-Completion Rates (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• 'Capstones' Build Academic Skills but Are No Cure-All, Study Finds (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Universities Try MOOCs in Bid to Lure Successful Students to Online Programs (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• 'Bill of Rights' Seeks to Protect Students' Interests as Online Learning Rapidly Expands (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Colleges Must Pay More Heed to Needs of Adult Learners, Paper Says (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• It’s the Economy, Stupid (Inside Higher Ed)
• Helping Athletes Make the Grade (Inside Higher Ed)
• MOOCs for Credit (Inside Higher Ed)
• Skepticism About Tenure, MOOCs and the Presidency: A Survey of Provosts (Inside Higher Ed)
• Anti-Poverty Program Found to Yield Few Academic Gains (Education Week)