Kentucky News - April 7, 2011

• Government shutdown would mean slower services but no major disruptions for campuses (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Gates goes open (Inside Higher Ed)
• Far from standard (Inside Higher Ed)
• Kasich asks for 3-year 'pathways' to bachelor degrees at Ohio's 4-year universities (Cleveland.com)
• Gov. John Kitzhaber begins lobbying in the Oregon Legislature to create a new statewide education board (OregonLive.com)
• Ill. House approves performance-based funding for universities (The Southern.com)
• Program helps prepare students for GRE (The Kentucky Kernel)
• Public-college presidents score raises (The Wall Street Journal)
• Spalding University gets business school accreditation (Business First of Louisville)
• NKU eyes move to Division I (Kypost.ocm)
• Saint Catherine College campus to go smoke-free (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Majority of U.S. children will be minorities by 2020 (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Betty Winston Bayé | No Child Left Behind's true intent: to destroy public education (The Courier-Journal)