Kentucky News - November 15, 2011

State:

• Postsecondary education council recommends $2.4B budget (Business First of Louisville)
• Council on Postsecondary Education adopts 2012-14 budget recommendation with new performance funding (The Lane Report)
• CPE Plans to Submit Capital Needs Plan to General Assembly (WFPL)
• Union College president will retire 18 months ahead of schedule (Herald-Leader)
• Group helps non-trad newcomers on campus (The Eastern Progress)
• Physical therapy program continues to move forward at WKU (WKU Herald)
• WKU offering EMT paramedic program (WKU Herald)
• Adviser: Prospective career earnings secondary (WKU Herald)
• Students walk out of class to protest rising tuition costs, student debt (The Louisville Cardinal)
• Ky. submits application for NCLB waiver (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• University of Louisville students protest rising tuition (The Courier-Journal)
• Ky. submits application for NCLB waiver (Daily News)
• UofL receives $1.1 million grant to help students prepare for college (The Lane Report)
• BULLETIN: Top UofL researcher says use of stem cells for heart failure could be biggest advance in a generation (The Lane Report)
• Pep rally encourages students to apply to college (WDRB)
• Students Prepare Applications for Colleges (WFPL News)
• Kentucky university funding-performance link sought: State's colleges are on board with plan (Courier-Journal)
• Dr. Dunn on University Performance Funding (WKMS)
• Plan would link Ky. schools' performance, funding
  • Messenger-Inquirer
  • All Voices
  • Henderson Gleaner
  • LEX18
  • USA Today
  • WYMT
  • WSMV
  • KFVS
  • WDRB
  • Herald-Dispatch
  • WFTV
• Plan Links Performance to Funds for Universities (West Kentucky Star)

National:

• Career Colleges Are Accused of Job-Placement Fraud (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• The Future of For-Profits (Inside Higher Ed)
• Public-University Leaders Plan for More Hard Times Ahead (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• More foreign students studying in USA (USA Today)