Kentucky News - April 17, 2012

State:

• U of L delays selection of hospital partner (Business First of Louisville)
• NKU to name Geoffrey Means president (Business First of Louisville)
• Higher Education Leaders Looking for Efficiency in Classroom Use (WKYUFM.org)
• Community invited to celebrate groundbreaking for new UK residence hall (The Lane Report)
• 11th Annual Girls In Science Day At WKU (WBKO.com)
• KABHE Holds Conference To Promote College For African Americans (WBKO.com)
• NKU selects new president (Kypost)
• 9 News sits down with retiring NKU President Dr. James Votruba (Kypost)
• Kids on campus returns to Shawnee State University (Daily Independent)
• Geoffrey Mearns will be new NKU president (Cincinnati.com)
• Verizon donates $100,000 to UK scholarship for battered women (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• NKU regents selecting new president (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Union College names first female president (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• U of L to delay selection of new health care partner (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Provost reflects on time at UK (The Kentucky Kernel)

National:

• Connect the Dots (Inside Higher Ed)
• New tool to standardize teacher evaluations in Minn. (Minnesota Public Radio News)
• Under new state standard, some schools don't graduate half of students (Online Athens)
• As costs rise, colleges raise needs-based aid (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• Programs encourage new grads to try entrepreneurship (USA Today)