Kentucky News - November 4, 2011

State:

• Heart Association awards U of L grants (Courier-Journal)
• 'Blind Side' sibling to speak at UofL (Courier-Journal)
• Louisville seminary to offer free tuition in 2015
  • Herald-Leader
  • Courier-Journal
• Louisville health board raises questions about hospital merger (Courier-Journal)
• Report: Ky. college student debt on rise (Cincinnati.com)
• Jobless soldiers: Unemployment high among troops in National Guard (Daily Independent)
• Positive results: State students near national average in math and reading (Daily Independent)
• American Heart Association grants $660,000 to U of L (Business First of Louisville)
• U.S. jobless claims drop by 10,000 (Business First of Louisville)
• MediaStorm founder speaks to WKU students about multimedia, networking (WKU Herald)
• Group provides alternative experiences for spring break (Kentucky Kernel)
• Proposed funding for condoms struck down (The Eastern Progress)
• Legislation would cap student loan payments (Louisville Cardinal)
• Library needs more discussion (The News)
• Professor receives literary award (The News)
• Sustainability commission hosts meeting, boasts progress (The News)
• HCC sets enrollment record (Kentucky New Era)

National:

• A Secret Rule (Inside Higher Ed.)
• Freeing Up Graduates (Inside Higher Ed.)
• Limited Partnership (Inside Higher Ed.)
• Student Success, in the Classroom (Inside Higher Ed.)
• Rise in student debt more modest than anticipated (Stateline)
• Mortality of College Students Varies From What Was Predicted (The Chronicle)
• Senate Committee Reported Incorrect Data on For-Profit Veterans' Education Benefits (The Chronicle)
• The China Conundrum: American colleges find the Chinese-student boom a tricky fit (The Chronicle)
• Federal Agents Raid For-Profit College in Texas Over Alleged Spurious Data (The Chronicle)
• Disclosure Requirements for Colleges Are Often Ignored or Just Loosely Followed, Report Says (The Chronicle)
• A Place at School Where Students Can Unload Stress and Worry (New York Times)
• School Has a Charter, Students and a Strong Opponent: Its District (New York Times)
• College Majors Matter (New York Times)
• Advanced degrees increasingly advance firefighters (USA Today)
• Amazon launches Kindle lending library (Washington Post)