Kentucky News - December 18, 2012

State:

• Construction on WKU retail wrap making progress (Bowling Green Daily News)
• Commission to consider dispatch agreement (Bowling Green Daily News)
• WKU adds floristry as a minor study (Bowling Green Daily News)
• Shawnee branch library opens college-prep shop (Courier-Journal)
• J. Blaine Hudson stepping down as U of L dean (Courier-Journal)
• Bellarmine to award 307 degrees; Armstrong to be commencement speaker (Courier-Journal)
• Tax reform ideas draw Kentucky lawmakers' ire (Courier-Journal)
• Tax report proposes changes that would raise state revenue by $659 million (Herald-Leader)
• Six University of Kentucky professors to receive 2013 Great Teacher Award (Herald-Leader)
• Kentucky would feel major impact if federal talks go off 'fiscal cliff'(Herald-Leader)
• Kentucky governor's tax commission issues report (Herald-Leader)
• Murray State's regents to evaluate president Dunn's performance (Herald-Leader)
• With four months to go, EKU advertising for next president (Richmond Register)
• BREAKING: Kentucky tax panel says rate trim, cap on deductions, broader base would generate $659 million in new revenue (Lane Report)
• Prichard Committee welcomes 18 new members (Lane Report)
• Bank of Kentucky invests $1 million in Gateway Urban Campus slated for Covington (Lane Report)
• Campbellsville University graduates 216 students in two ceremonies Dec. 14 (Lane Report)
• Tax reform group hands final report to Gov. Beshear (Business First of Louisville)

National

• A Guaranteed Pell Grant? (Inside Higher Ed)
• In Defense of Incrementalism (Inside Higher Ed)
• Corporate Governance, Shared Governance, and Higher Ed (Inside Higher Ed)
• College leaders consider making Florida’s next public university online-only (Miami Herald)
• The best and worst in education and labor: 2012 (Washington Post)
• Should students evaluate teachers? (Washington Post)