Kentucky News - August 1, 2011

State:

• Kentucky wins $1 million in funding to substantially transform remedial education (The Lane Report)
• Kentucky receives $1M to boost college completion
  • WLKY.com
  • FOX19.com
• Kentucky graduation rate likely to drop as state uses new way to calculate (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• University credits nontraditional growth (The Paducah Sun)
• U of L taps Kayser as social work chair (Business First of Louisvile)
• Construction projects continue at WKU throughout summer (WKU Herald)
• WKU's capital campaign nears $200 million mark (WKU Herald)
• Regents learn of increased fall enrollment, buy $365,000 property (WKU Herald)
• Regents Notes: Contracts, programs approved (WKU Herald)
• Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear names new UK and U of L trustees (The Courier-Journal)
• UK, Keeneland bring dental clinic to children of horse industry workers (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• TVA and ASE choose Western Kentucky University and five other schools for Green Campus Network program (The Lane Report)
• Twenty-three U of L physicians named as 'top doctors' by U.S. News & World Report (The Lane Report)
• Study shows WKU accounts for approximately 26 percent, or $672 million, of expenditures in Warren County (The Lane Report)

National:

• Debt-ceiling deal provides $17-billion for Pell Grants (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Fighting the non-university master's (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Grant focuses on success of older, working students (Indystar.com)