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From the issue dated May 9, 2008 |
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Short SubjectsIT'S A GUY THINGHampden-Sydney College has built a male-only culture and wouldn't have it any other way. CROCODILE FEARS: Students at the University of Miami may be getting too comfortable with two longtime residents of a campus lake. A NEW OLDIE: A long-unknown organ piece by Bach will find new life at a Baroque-music conference in Germany next month. NO KIDDING: An occasional look at research results that didn't surprise us. JFK REVISITED: A scholar has made a film about what President John F. Kennedy would have done about Vietnam had he lived. IN OTHER NEWS ...: Spring is the season when college students try their best to injure themselves or be arrested. Research & BooksPUBLIC RELATIONS FOR PEER REVIEWThe National Institutes of Health considers changing its policies to entice more senior scholars to evaluate grant applications. NEWS ANALYSIS: Scholars at both ends of the ideological spectrum in Middle East studies are alarmed by its current state. What other common ground do they share? The FacultyA PEDAGOGY OF PASSIONEllen Handler Spitz offers fond and fearful memories of a professor who earned her students' awe. TALES OF WESTERN ADVENTUREThe rigid standards of hiring and tenure are all that stand in the way of humanities professors as thriving public scholars. PEER REVIEW: The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study gets a permanent leader ... The University of California at Irvine's engineering school hires a climate expert as its new dean ... Bruce Shepard is the new president of Western Washington University ... A new chancellor steps in at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Information TechnologyHACKING BACKCollege students learn real-life lessons in Internet security when they go up against hackers in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. GOLD MINES OF INFORMATIONVast education databases maintained by states can yield invaluable data, say education researchers, but concerns about privacy limit their development and use. LINKED IN WITH: Kelly Sutton, a founder of a student-run blog about improving lives through technology. Money & ManagementA TALE OF 2 COLLEGESHeidelberg College and Tiffin University, two very different institutions in the same small town in Ohio, present a living laboratory for strategies to weather tough times. INVEST IN PEOPLE, NOT BUILDINGSInstitutions should spend more money to meet the real needs of low-income students and minimum-wage campus employees, writes a senior at the University of Virginia. WHERE THE MONEY GOES: Students are paying a growing share of higher-education costs, but institutions are spending less money on them in the classroom, a report says. MOUNTAINS OF BLAME: Two administrators from West Virginia University have stepped down in the wake of a transcript scandal, but the president's job seems secure. WHAT THEY THINK: Most college financial officers expect tuition increases to continue outpacing inflation. KINGS OF THE KILOWATTS: The Ivy League crushed its rivals in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's green-energy contest. SETTING STANDARDS: An Internal Revenue Service official says the agency will get more aggressive in ensuring that colleges spend their endowments at levels commensurate with their assets. WE REGRET THE ERROR: The University of Wisconsin at Madison mistakenly released the name of a candidate for chancellor who had requested confidentiality. DEADBEAT DAD'S DONATION: The son of a man who gave $1-million to Michigan State University is requesting that part of the gift be diverted to his mother because his father owes her child support. Government & PoliticsON PROBATION IN THE GOLDEN STATEA federal pressure mounts, regional accreditors crack down on colleges over self-assessment. Cash-strapped community colleges, like California's, suffer the consequences. IN THE SPIRIT OF THE GI BILL: Proposed legislation would significantly expand tuition benefits for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. StudentsIT'S A GUY THINGHampden-Sydney College has built a male-only culture and wouldn't have it any other way. THE TROUBLE WITH TESTSStudent diversity at selective colleges suffers because of the weight their admissions offices give to SAT scores, two recent studies have concluded. AthleticsA HIGH-PRESSURE GAMEMany people in college sports, including the coaches themselves, say the recruiting process is only getting more frenzied and has trickled down to all levels of play. InternationalA QUEST FOR CHANGECanada's first private, secular liberal-arts college hopes to begin a revolution in higher education. AFRICAN MISADVENTURE: An inquiry into a failed University of Washington study-abroad program in Ghana has concluded that its director did not "appropriately handle" challenges on the trip. TOWARD A GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE: The State Department's Higher Education Summit for Global Development drew nearly 200 college presidents from the United States and abroad. CommentaryINVEST IN PEOPLE, NOT BUILDINGSInstitutions should spend more money to meet the real needs of low-income students and minimum-wage campus employees, writes a senior at the University of Virginia. SAVING 'THE NEW YORK TIMES'Lee Smith proposes that the nation's wealthiest colleges should all chip in and buy the Times to preserve it for future generations. The Chronicle ReviewTHE NEW PATERNALISMIf we know what's good for us, we'll let specialists guide us when we don't know what's good for us. Or so a new book contends. LOOKING UPSpiritually, but intellectually too, evangelicals are making a comeback on the campuses of even elite colleges, writes D. Michael Lindsay. LIVES WELL WRITTENAcademe has generally disdained the art and history of biography. It's time to show the genre a little respect, writes Steve Weinberg. THE FORGOTTEN PHILOSOPHERJohn Stuart Mill was a great intellect ahead of his time, and is underappreciated in ours. writes Alan Wolfe. APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTIONWhy does Hollywood keep demolishing New York? asks Marianna Torgovnick. CRITICAL MASSDoes John C. Yoo deserve to lose his Berkeley law professorship because of his Justice Department memos on torture? NOTA BENEA risque view of 19th-century New York; a seismic view of archaeology; and a textual view of Al Qaeda. MY SPACEPresident Roberto Díaz of the Curtis Institute of Music. A PEDAGOGY OF PASSIONEllen Handler Spitz offers fond and fearful memories of a professor who earned her students' awe. Letters to the EditorChronicle CareersTALES OF WESTERN ADVENTUREThe rigid standards of hiring and tenure are all that stand in the way of humanities professors as thriving public scholars. THE INTERNAL CANDIDATE SYNDROMEAll the parties involved in an open, national search are vulnerable when the applicant pool includes an insider. IT'S TOUGH ALL OVERContrary to popular belief, the route to a faculty career is not disproportionately paved with peril. DETAILS OF AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching and research positions in higher education, administrative and executive jobs, and openings outside academe |