Kentucky News - May 7, 2012

State:

• Graduation brings mixed emotions to students searching for jobs (WKU Herald)
• WKU grads find work in Americorps (WKU Herald)
• Ransdell opposes KY court ruling on guns in vehicles (WKU Herald)
• White: Study of lake imperative (The News)
• Commission on sustainability discuss changes (The News)
• Ky. students taking new spring tests (Daily News)
• Session to discuss education legislation (Messenger-Inquirer)
• MSU Town & Gown Community Band forms (Murray Ledger & Times)
• Cundiff, Bradley to be student speakers at Spring Commencement (Morehead State University News)
• Senate turns to fight over student loans (The Paducah Sun)
• Berea College's 140th commencement (The Richmond Register)
• Path to diplomas winding but worth it (The State Journal)
• Project Grad helped singer, man who worked 9 years to graduate (The State Journal)
• EKU student selected to attend inventors conference (The Lane Report)
• UK research brings ‘holy grail’ quantum computing closer to reality (The Lane Report)
• First U of L American Sign Language Interpreting Studies Graduates (WBKO)
• After 33 years and myriad health issues, student graduates from UK (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Ky. Voices: UK should reduce overhead costs, not raise tuition (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• More than 2,400 graduate at University of Kentucky (The Courier-Journal)
• Kentucky students to face more rigorous state tests (The Courier-Journal)
• WKU Dedicates New Music Facility (WBKO)

National:

• College Credit Without College (Inside Higher Ed)
• Senate Turns To Partisan Fight Over Student Loans (NPR)
• US announces changes to troubled exchange program for foreign college students (The Washington Post)
• Connecticut Legislature Passes Remedial Education Overhaul (Inside Higher Ed)
• More Minority and Needy Students Enroll and Graduate, but Gaps Persist, Study Finds (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• After War Room, Heading Ivy League Classroom (The New York Times)