Kentucky News - October 5, 2011

State:

• Unity Breakfast (The Richmnd Register)
• $27m grant to help prepare students college (The State Journal)
• MSU chief of staff heading to UK (Morehead State University)
• Ransdell explains two-year housing requirement at SGA meeting (WKU Herald)
• $3.33 million Coulter grant will fund university’s bioengineering research (The Louisville Cardinal)
• Department of Medicine gets high marks for 2010 (The Louisville Cardinal)
• Across the University (The Northerner)
• Seniors take on project for entrepreneurship class (The Daily News)
• Shelton met with other school superintendents, education officials in D.C. (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Calloway, Murray grads measured for college/career readiness (Murray Ledger & Times)
• UK team to study economic development in Appalachia (Business Lexington)
• UK College of Agriculture offers new tool to guide burley growers through ever-changing curing conditions (The Lane Report)
• U of L's Harkema among those honored for Popular Mechanics 2011 Breakthrough Awards (The Lane Report)
• Red Mile to sell land for UK student housing (Business First of Louisville)

National:

• University presidents say statewide system not necessary (Detroit Free Press)
• Study: State Test Scores Lag at High School Level (Education Week)
• College Enrollment Is Rising But New Report Reveals Students Aren't Completing Their Degrees (University Business)