Kentucky News - November 3, 2011

State:

• Common core standards forum set for February (The Northerner)
• New president comes with a price (The Northerner)
• Search firm looks for inside opinion (The Northerner)
• Program to focus on economic growth (Eastern Kentucky University)
• Counseling and Testing Center aims to help WKU students with self confidence (WKU Herald)
• Louisville seminary to offer free tuition in 2015 (Daily News)
• Louisville Presbyterian Seminary to offer free tuition (The Courier-Journal)
• Nutritious shopping 101: U of L students get a lesson on making healthy choices (The Courier-Journal)
• Kentucky voices: Education reform is futile without new set of principles (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Educated but poor (The State Journal)
• EKU earns No. 2 national ranking for programs, services and policies that support military veterans (The Lane Report)
• Conference for U.S. middle grade educators to bring 5,000 to Louisville; Arne Duncan to speak (The Lane Report)
• University of Kentucky to offer Chinese Studies major (The Lane Report)
• Beshear Proclaims ‘College Application Week’ (West Kentucky Star)

National:

• Kentucky Showdown (Inside Higher Ed)
• Expert: Higher ed merger risky, but success is possible (The Connecticut Mirror)
• College Graduates’ Debt Burden Grew, Yet Again, in 2010 (New York Times)
• To Monitor Online Testing, Western Governors U. Gives Students Webcams (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)