Kentucky News - March 30, 2012

State:

• Bill creating for-profit college oversight panel heads to Beshear (The Courier-Journal)
• Kentucky House, Senate set to vote on budget Friday (The Courier-Journal)
• Capiloutos learn to bleed blue (The Kentucky Kernel)
• UK’s operating budget cut 6.4 percent (The Kentucky Kernel)
• Church leaders speak highly about 55,000 degrees initiative (The Louisivlle Cardinal)
• First of 3 NKU president candidates visits campus (KyPost.com)
• UofL launches logistics-distribution index; tool to help guide businesses (The Lane Report)
• Capilouto names members of new committee to oversee UK athleticse (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• House sends bills reforming pension system, for-profit colleges to governor (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• New panel created to oversee for-profit colleges (Lexington Herald-Leader)

National:

• GenTX Day to promote higher education (The Statesman)
• 2-Year College, Squeezed, Sets 2-Tier Tuition (The New York Times)
• Why Research Universities Must Change (Inside Higher Ed)
• Duncan Defends Spending Hikes (Inside Higher Ed)
• Senate passes bill raising required education age (Anchorage Daily News)
• Oregon's new education board approves achievement gauges for every level of schooling (Oregon Live)