Kentucky News - June 24, 2011

State:

• Patton recalls higher education reforms (WEKU)
• Kentucky Senate Bill 1 Grant to support College and Career Readiness (NKU News)
• Kenton County Fiscal Court endorses Gateway’s Urban Campus (Gateway Community and Technical College)
• NKU received $200,000 grant (Boone County News)
• Perkins Act, career and technical education prove their worth (Appalachian News Express)
• Kenton County Fiscal Court endorses Gateway’s Urban Campus (Cincinnati.com)
• W-K-U Tuition Hike (weku)
• Foreign professor alleges college underpaid him (The Floyd County Times)
• Jeffersonville High School students get nursing certificates (The Courier-Journal)
• Science program helps ‘open doors’ for kids (Daily News)
• Tuition on rise at WKU (Daily News)
• Black college leaders meet to discuss challenges (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• UK's good news reveals challenges (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Kentucky editorial roundup (Messenger-Inquirer)
• Somerset Community College ranked as one of the nation's 120 best community colleges (Somerset Community College)
• Next leader of UK's Gatton College will need patience and fundraising skills (Business Lexington)
• Kentucky plans on competing for third round of Race to the Top early education grants (cn2.com)
• U of L's Ramsey says state pension system should go to 401(k)-style to save money (cn2.com)

National:

• Private college costs rising 4.6 percent (New York Times)