Kentucky News - April 12, 2011

• Campus diversity plan in final stages (The Murray State News)
• WKU retitles positions as associate vice presidents (WKU Herald)
• Presidential search discussed with faculty (The Kentucky Kernel)
• Campus farewell to Lee, Patsy Todd (The Kentucky Kernel)
• UK hoping to trim number of presidential hopefuls (Daily News)
• UK committee sends list of finalists to trustees (Daily News)
• JCPS board hears what community wants in a new superintendent (The Courier-Journal)
• University of Kentucky search panel narrows field of presidential finalists (The Courier-Journal)
• UK presidential search panel gives list of finalists to trustees (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Farmers market comes to UK campus (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• UK researcher studies link between social, physical pain (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Community-college students take more credit hours, and report says pell increases are why (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Responding to for-profit challenges (Inside Higher Ed)
• The trials of Kaplan Higher Ed and the education of The Washington Post Co. (Washington Post)
• Once more, with less (Inside Higher Ed)
• Report: Minorities' college graduation rates lag (Boston.com)
• Survey finds small increase in professors’ pay (The New York Times)
• Maine adopts new ‘common core’ education standards (Bangor Daily News)
• Study: Third grade reading predicts later high school graduation (Education Week)
• High school students earning degrees before they graduate (Magic Valley.com)
• Leader reshapes City Colleges of Chicago, her alma mater (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Vets go from combat to campus (USA Today)