BHEF Announces On-the-Ground Commitment to Louisville, KY
As a key strategy in BHEF's College Readiness Initiative, BHEF is very pleased to announce their commitment to Louisville/Jefferson County, KY as the first on-the-ground site for collaboration in improving student achievement. The team in Louisville draws from both business and education, involving member David Jones, Chairman of Humana, Inc.; Joe Reagan, President and CEO of Greater Louisville, Inc.; Sheldon Berman, Superintendent of Jefferson County schools; Lee Todd, the President of the University of Kentucky; and Michael McCall, President of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. This team will work with BHEF to determine and take action on areas of improvement in the education pipeline.
Battelle and Ohio STEM Learning Network Receive Gates Grant
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $12 million grant in support of the Ohio Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Learning Network, managed by Battelle. This network will work with Ohio's public schools to ensure that all students meet the STEM literacy challenge and are prepared to fill the high-quality jobs that will transform Ohio's economy from an industrial economy to a "solutions" economy.
The network seeks to double the number of college graduates in Ohio by 2015 with degrees in the STEM disciplines, with a special emphasis on increasing the number of low income and minority graduates.
For more information from the Battelle Web site, click here.
BHEF Executive Director Speaks at Kentucky Education Task Force
For several months, the Kentucky Chamber's Postsecondary Education Task Force has been reviewing the state's progress in improving education, examining the impact of local colleges and universities on economic grown, and looking at the state's ability to compete in the global marketplace. The group released their findings, titled "Locally Engaged, Globally Competitive: The Report of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce's Postsecondary Education Task Force," on December 4, 2007, in Louisville. Brian Fitzgerald, BHEF Executive Director, was the keynote speaker for the event.
For more information, read "Locally Engaged, Globally Competitive" (pdf), a report from the Kentucky Chamber's Web site.
