Kentucky News - April 19, 2012

State:

• Ag Awareness Day educates students about the industry’s impact (The Kentucky Kernel)
• Rising gas prices cause more students to use EKU Rides service (The Eastern Progress)
• Tuition forum reveals potential five- percent increase (The Eastern Progress)
• Pikeville denied state-funded college status (The Eastern Progress)
• U of L decides not to extend academic school year (The Louisville Cardinal)
• U of L breaks ground for student activities center (The Courier-Journal)
• U of L breaking ground on $37.5M rec center (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• New scholarship will pay tuition for Kentucky Kernel editors-in-chief (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Recruitment ads by for-profit colleges targeted (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Job training and education combine for effective futures (The Paducah Sun)
• Paramedic degree program set for fall opening at ACTC (The Daily Independent)
• N.Ky. students to learn via iPads (KyPost.com)
• Gatton Academy one of 18 U.S. schools named Intel Awards finalist (The Lane Report)
• Applications being accepted for the nominating commissions for 16 community, technical colleges (The Lane Report)
• Kentucky’s jobless rate drops to 8.6 percent in March 2012 (The Lane Report)
• Gatton Academy Named Intel Schools of Distinction (WBKO.com)
• WKU to Offer Non-Credit Photography Course (WBKO.com)
• New NKU president wants to raise profile (Cincinnati.com)
• NKU Welcomes Geoffrey Mearns (The Northerner)
• U of L to break ground on student recreation center (Business First of Louisville)
• UK breaks ground on New Central Residence Hall, the first phase of private-housing plan (The Kentucky Kernel)
• Private developer breaks ground on University of Kentucky dorm (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Students' recycling efforts win awards, benefit schools and planet (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Kentucky professor bests Iowa education official in ACT test (The Paducah Sun)
• UK, EdR break ground for New Central Residence Hall (The Lane Report)
• Mearns named fifth president of Northern Kentucky University (The Lane Report)
• Head of Kentucky student loan organization retires abruptly (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• WKU Among Nation's "Green Colleges" (WBKO.com)
• UK breaks ground for New Central Residence Hall, building will open fall 2013 (Kyforward.com)
• WKU team visits China for water resource training (The Lane Report)
• WKU research and development center to conduct Friday ribbon cutting (The Lane Report)

National:

• Graduate Schools Needs to Improve Career Counseling, Report Says (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Prepping Grad Students for Jobs (Inside Higher Ed)
• New Front in For-Profit Battle? (Inside Higher Ed)
• Pacing Themselves (Inside Higher Ed)
• U.S. Department of Education Develops College Scorecard (Diverse Issues in Higher Ed)
• States scrutinize for-profit colleges (Stateline)
• From Silicon Valley, A New Approach To Education (NPR)
• Earmarks for Research, Including University Projects, Total $44-Million in 2012, Group Says (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• No Way Out of Default (Inside Higher Ed)
• Elite Universities' Online Play (Inside Higher Ed)
• Combining Remedial Coursework With Credit Classes Helps Students Succeed, Report Says (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)