Kentucky News - November 10, 2011

State:

• US education secretary speaking in Louisville (USA Today)
• Bluegrass Community and Technical College Teams Up with the Lumina Foundation To Increase Graduation Rates Among Latinos (KCTCS News)
• Covington Latin opens after $10M upgrade (Cincinnati.com)
• WKU professor sent email endorsing candidate (Herald-Leader)
• Kentucky voices: Legislature must crack down on Internet technology theft (Herald-Leader)
• Names of war dead to be read Friday at EKU (Richmond Register)
• EKU, Midway pharmacy school sign agreement (Richmond Register)
• KSU roots out erosion problem (State Journal)
• Student track app No. 1 in Kentucky (Daily Independent)
• Important work: Success of UK research unit critical to future of coal (Daily Independent)
• WKU to sign joint admissions agreement with ECTC (WKU Herald)
• WKU freshman launches club to fight against suicide (WKU Herald)
• Department reconsiders eliminating Black and Women’s and Gender Studies Minors (The Northerner)
• Founders getting a facelift? (The Northerner)
• Facebook not admission tool for Chase (The Northerner)
• University of Louisville to add nurse practitioner program (Business First of Louisville)
• Kentucky schools recognized for working conditions (Kentucky Teacher)
• MSU to host CPE (Morehead State University News)
• ‘Bucks for Brains’ endowment match program wins national economic development award (Ky Forward)

National:

• Delayed, Not Defeated (Inside Higher Education)
• Fair Use and Felony (Inside Higher Education)
• Passing the Smell Test (Inside Higher Education)
• Students of Professor Who Didn't Show Up Keep Their A's and Get Refunds, Too (The Chronicle)
• Tutoring Company Removes Copyrighted Materials From Web Site (The Chronicle)
• The Shadowy (Work) Side of Academia (The Chronicle)
• Programming for Children, Minus Cryptic Syntax (New York Times)
• Princeton Is Swamped in Early Applications (New York Times)
• France Is Sending North African Graduates Home (New York Times)
• Intern Gap Frustrates Clinicians in Training (New York Times)
• In Tennessee, Following the Rules for Evaluations Off a Cliff (New York Times)
• Reports on charter schools expose new problems (Washington Post)
• The most misleading ranking of educators yet (Washington Post)
• Did Penn State officials violate the Clery Act? (Washington Post)
• Professor disputes anti-AP film ‘Race to Nowhere’ (Washington Post)
• Penn State fallout: How high will it go? (Washington Post)
• College endowments still recovering from downturn (Washington Post)