Kentucky News - June 8, 2012

• New Kentucky Web site helps students transfer from community college to universities (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• KnowHow2Transfer.org takes guesswork out of transfer planning (Morehead State University)
• 2-year college students have new resource (Glasgow Daily Times)
• Website aims to ease student transfers (The State Journal)
• UK laying off 140, not filling 164 other positions (The Kentucky Kernel)
• President Ramsey announces layoffs at U of L (The Louisville Cardinal)
• UofL flood clean-up estimated to cost $175,000 (The Courier-Journal)
• Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday gets contract extension (The Courier-Journal)
• University of Kentucky warns some lecturers that jobs will end next year (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• EKU says no cuts despite $8.3 million shortfall (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• MSU extends Andrews' contract; Governor's Scholars to return in 2013 (Morehead State University)
• EKU employees safe from layoffs, position cuts (The Richmond Register)
• Morehead State raising tuition by 5 percent (Daily Independent)
• Hilltoppers post spring semester grades (Daily News)
• Faith Community Nursing courses offered at Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital, WKU (KyForward)
• Adult Education Center closing June 30 (Central Ky News)
• NKU grants enable community-based research by university faculty, students (The Lane Report)
• IdeaFestival introduces IF University — classes for creative thinkers, innovators (The Lane Report)

• Obama Criticizes Republicans Over Student Loan Rates (The New York Times)
• The Next Big Thing, Almost (Inside Higher Ed)
• New Tests Put States on Hot Seat as Scores Plunge (Education Week)
• 10 Colleges Will Provide Cost and Financial-Aid Information to Incoming Students (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Educators working to learn more about helping underprepared students (The Billings Gazette)
• Not college for all, but college for more (The Washington Post)