Kentucky News - April 12, 2012

State:

• Consumer alert issued for fake GED tests (The Lane Report)
• UK offers various archaeological opportunities, chance to learn from past (The Kentucky Kernel)
• President Eli Capilouto discusses social media use, new dorms and Top 20 Business Plan (The Kentucky Kernel)
• Annual walk geared toward improving campus safety (The Kentucky Kernel)
• KSU Invites Community To Tree-Planting Ceremony (Kentucky State University)
• University of Louisville President James Ramsey to discuss campus highlights at Rotary (The Courier-Journal)
• Beshear, Daniels to get Bellarmine honorary degrees (The Courier-Journal)
• KSU students volunteer at Simon House (The State Journal)
• Beshear vetoes parts of state budget (Business First of Louisville)
• Some students unaware their scholarships can be taxed (The Kentucky Kernel)
• Students, faculty and staff submit budget cutting ideas (The Louisville Cardinal)
• Rising from the rubble? Board leases land to U of L foundation (The Louisville Cardinal)
• NKU’s gen ed program to receive checkup (The Northerner)
• Morehead mentors disabled students in new program (The Courier-Journal)
• E'town college touts learning for a lifetime: Elderly students study for free (The Courier-Journal)
• A state UPike would be a positive step (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• College enrollment grows as does competition (Glasgow Daily Times)
• Third finalist for NKU president job visits campus (Kypost.com)
• State to sell property parcels at school for deaf (Daily News)
• Beshear, Daniels to Receive Honorary Degrees from Bellarmine (WFPL.org)
• Spotlight: Winters wraps up Senate career after getting into politics to help students (CNl2)

National:

• Last Rites for Graduation Rate (Inside Higher Ed)
• A New Way to Compare Financial-Aid Awards (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Feds Back Off on Easing Special Ed. Funding Restriction (Education Week)
• High School, Only Shorter (The Wall Street Journal)
• National Group for Student Veterans Kicks Out 40 Chapters at For-Profit Colleges (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Oregon high school seniors required to pass tests (Stateman Journal)
• What Students Really Pay to Go to College (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Report Addresses College Graduation Rates for Latinos (Texas Tribune)