Kentucky News - July 18, 2011

• U of L to begin construction of $37.5 million recreation center (Business First of Louisville)
• Student loan default rates raise concerns (Daily News)
• UT professor helps rural librarians help patrons (Daily News)
• New E. Ky. school will focus on troubled youth (Daily News)
• WKU breaks ground on alumni center (Daily News)
• Ex-UK president's campus office to cost $143,000 (The Courier-Journal)
• University of Kentucky will spend $285,000 to examine long-term goals (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Concern grows about default rates on student loans in Kentucky (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• U of L medical students plan trip to Kenya (Business First of Louisville)
• Local districts balk at free lunch program (Messenger-Inquirer)
• Winkler is MSU's first Fulbright Scholar (Murray Ledger & Times)
• Free meals program expanding (Richmond Register)
• Commonwealth Collaboratives at University of Kentucky named Exemplary Projects by Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (The Lane Report)

• Obstacles litter the way to earning a college degree (Miami Herald)
• Public colleges are more likely to admit undocumented students than private colleges (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)