KSU helps students study abroad

Kentucky State University is helping its students experience studying abroad, reports the Chronicle of Higher Education. A new survey by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities found that historically black colleges and universities do not have strong study abroad programs. Cornell H. Menking, assistant vice president for international affairs at Kentucky State University, said that his predecessor had no background in international education and did not know how to advise students. In the two years prior to his arrival, Menking said, not a single student studied abroad. But after KSU began a fund to send students abroad, 16 students are going overseas this year, according to the report.

The Obama administration has requested $76 million for the Appalachian Regional Commission's community and economic development programs in the newly proposed budget, according to a press release from the ARC. Among the goals of the ARC is increasing job opportunities, competing with the global economy, develope Appalachia's intrastructure and develop the highway system to reduce the isolation of the area.

A few television shows that mention Kentucky: The Philadelphia Daily News reports on Justified's dangerous new character, Mags Bennett. Margo Martindale plays the "cruel and charismatic matriarch of a Harlan County, Ky., crime family and a woman with whom Raylan apparently also has some history,according to the story.There's nothing even a little bit nervous in Martindale's performance as Mags, who adheres to a backwoods code that few around her seem capable of honoring to her satisfaction and who can flip from homey to homicidal and back again in the blink of an eye.Animal Planet is launching a show on noodling, Hillbilly Handfishin' reports the Washington Post. The series takes place in Oklahoma, but Kentucky is also one of the states where it is legal to catch catfish with bare hands. The show begins in August.