Kentucky News - June 22, 2011

State:

• Capital projects lists are long (WEKU.FM)
• Lee T. Todd Jr.: Indispensable universities (The Courier-Journal)
• Western tagged for fundraising award (Daily News)
• Grant Career Center Adult Education graduates are ready for new careers (Cincinnati.com)
• Kentucky seeks different measure for student progress (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• State seeks testing changes (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Academy at WKU earns high marks (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Math, science academy earns top-five ranking (Messenger-Inquirer)
• State seeking different measure for progress (Messenger-Inquirer)
• Dorm construction displaces students (Paducah Sun)
• UK students to get a Lexington primer (Business Lexington)
• State announces $1 million for new community education and training center in Sharpsburg (The Lane Report)
• Tuition raised at Kentucky community colleges (The News Enterprise)
• Graduate programs in education redesigned to incorporate teacher leader endorsement (EKU)
• Clinton Bank donates to Murray State University’s A.C.R.E.S. campaign (Murray State University)
• NKU expansion of WNKU now complete... (NKU)
• Medtech College Selects tw telecom to Connect Ten Campus Locations in Five States and D.C. (WAVE3)
• Gatton Academy named a top high school in U.S. by Newsweek (WKU Student Government Association)
• NKU graduate students add value to national Underground Railroad conference (NKU News)
• Among the best & brightest: Gatton Academy ranked one of top five high schools in U.S. (Bowling Green Daily News)
• Academically Proficient Conference (MSU Eagle)

National:

• Oregon Legislature adopts goal of seeing 40 percent of Oregonians have a college degree (Oregonian)
• Supreme Court decision on arbitration may have eroded for-profit students' right to sue (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• CCSSO releases roadmap for accountability (Education Week)
• Report: Low-income students ‘overrepresented’ at for-profit colleges (Diverse Issues in Higher Ed)