Kentucky News - October 24, 2012

State:

• WKYU shuffles staff, cuts 3 jobs (Bowling Green Daily News)
• Teachers, professor to give seminar on classroom programs (Bowling Green Daily News)
• Students lauded for ACT Plan test scores (Bowling Green Daily News)
• Mearns: NKU will focus on quality (Cincinnati.com)
• EKU suspends rugby team (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Transylvania awards honorary degree to nutrition expert (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• University of Kentucky pension perk retained for current administrators (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• UK administrators received an extra retirement benefit worth $296,134 (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Political frolicking won’t fill state’s debt sinkhole (Richmond Register)
• Worth the cost: Hosting the vice presidential debate a winner for Centre (Daily Independent)
• N.Ky. Chamber of Commerce talks job market forecast for students in seminar (Kentucky Post)
• College price hikes more modest but still painful (Kentucky Post)
• University of Cincinnati approves Ono as 28th president (Business First of Louisville)
• Moran will lead IU's journalism center (Business First of Louisville)

National:

• Teaching, Stress, Adjuncts (Inside Higher Education)
• Moving Further to the Left (Inside Higher Education)
• Leveling Off (Inside Higher Education)
• Freedom of All Press (Inside Higher Education)
• A New Online Associate Degree (Inside Higher Education)
• Today's Faculty: Stressed, Focused on Teaching, and Undeterred by Long Odds (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Male-Female Pay Gap Persists and Starts Early, Study Finds (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Sticker Prices Go Up at Public 4-Year Colleges, but at a Slower Pace (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
• Report Says College Prices, Once Stable, Are Up Again (New York Times)
• At Technology High School, Goal Isn’t to Finish in 4 Years (New York Times)
• College net price is rising (Washington Post)