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From the issue dated May 16, 2008 |
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Short SubjectsMR. NINE-BY-NINEA postdoctoral student in bioengineering at Stanford University Medical Center is the world champion of sudoku. NO FREE LUNCH: Kent State University gave out coupons for free burritos to students who gave blood. Then some of the students became violently ill. ARE YOU THE PROFESSOR OR A STUDENT? A New York woman has become the world's youngest college professor after spotting a job ad in The Chronicle. OLYMPIC FEAT: Meteorologists at the University of Utah will train Canadian forecasters to accurately predict snow temperatures for Nordic ski events at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, in Vancouver. Notes From AcademeSAWDUST MEMORIESAt the annual Spring Meet for student lumberjacks and jills, Ivy Leaguers compete against community-college choppers, and the chips fly. The FacultyVIDEOS AND NO-SHOWSMore colleges are taping lectures so that students can watch online, but not all professors are sure that the results are good for their classrooms. CINEMA MAGIC: California State University at Long Beach looks into allegations that professors in the film department made bogus claims in their online biographies. PEER REVIEW: Stanford University's medical school recruits a best-selling author. ... The University of Maryland gets a new dean for its School of Education. ... The University of Denver finds two new academic leaders. Research & BooksMORE THAN GENESJeremy K. Nicholson, who has labored for decades in search of molecules that predict health and illness, may finally have found them. HOT TYPE: A new open-access humanities press makes its debut. ... Princeton University Press has recalled a book because of copy-editing errors. Information TechnologyBOUND FOR DISPUTEHoping to keep their theses available for eventual commercial publication, creative-writing students at some colleges raise objections to policies allowing open access online. LINKED IN WITH: Laura N. Gassaway, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who thinks a lawsuit against Georgia State University's electronic reserve system has implications for other colleges. FOREBODING MUSIC: Colleges, reporting a spike in the number of illegal-downloading notices from the Recording Industry Association of America, ask whether it has to do with pending legislation in Congress. Money & ManagementLITTLE ENGINES THAT COULDIn economically struggling communities, small private colleges help generate development projects in large part as a matter of survival. YIELDING A QUANDARYThe crunch in the student-loan market, a weak U.S. economy, and declining home values are making this an unpredictable year for college enrollment. EXPERTISE REQUIRED: The governing boards of public universities need to know how to operate the complex nonprofit corporations those institutions have become, says Moody's Investors Service. BIG BITES FROM THE BUDGET: College dining halls are feeling the pinch as food prices soar. RISKY BUSINESS: At around the same time that West Virginia University awarded the governor's daughter an executive M.B.A. that she had not earned, it was considering her for at least two advisory panels whose primary role is to raise money for the university. A NEW MARKET: A former athletic director at Harvard University has been recruited by an executive-search firm to help colleges fill that position. UNREASONABLE BURDEN? Higher-education groups protest a law that would require public colleges to withhold a 3-percent tax beginning in 2011. NO IMMUNITY: The continuing economic downturn may affect all kinds of charitable gifts, even bequests, a fund-raising consultant predicts. SELF-SUPPORTED: Wesleyan University's student assembly has set up its own endowment, one of the first of its kind, to pay for student activities. PEER REVIEW: Stanford University's medical school recruits a best-selling author. ... The University of Maryland gets a new dean for its School of Education. ... The University of Denver finds two new academic leaders. Government & PoliticsRELIEF ON THE BOTTOM LINEDespite economic woes, many states have spared higher education from major budget cuts. BORROWING LONG-TERM TROUBLE: The speedily written student-aid legislation just enacted by Congress may do little to improve the system's stability over time. StudentsTHEIR JOB IS YOUR JOBAs students, parents, and accreditors pay more and more attention in the measurable benefits of higher education, colleges step up their career services. MATCHING STRATEGY: The California Community Colleges will receive up to $50-million from a philanthropy for scholarships at the system's 109 colleges. $2,500 PRIZE: The Chronicle has awarded its fifth annual David W. Miller Award for Student Journalists to a 2007 graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz. AthleticsFEW FOUL OUT: The NCAA has penalized fewer teams than it expected this year over athletes' poor academic performance. InternationalSUCCESS IN THE GULFCornell University's medical school in Qatar has graduated its first class, marking the first time an American medical college has awarded degrees outside the United States. NO, AND NO AGAIN: India's notoriously resistant higher-education regulators reject yet another call for change. INSTANT DIPLOMAS: At least 200,000 people in Russia have gotten jobs on the basis of phony degrees, says the government, which has promised to crack down on the problem. HEFTY HIKES: The prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology are nearly doubling their tuition rates. NEW PROBLEMS: As business education grows more global, educators worldwide will find it harder to maintain quality, a report says. CommentaryTHEY'VE EARNED AN EDUCATIONThe young people serving their country in Iraq and Afghanistan deserve a GI Bill as good as the one waiting for their grandfathers after World War II, says James Wright. SCIENCE CLASSES FOR BUSINESS STUDENTSTo reflect the needs of the modern global marketplace, science and technology courses should be added to business-program curriculums, write Shari L. Laprise, Charles Winrich, and Norean Radke Sharpe. REACHING OUT TO THE COMMUNITYEven, and perhaps especially, in lean times, colleges and universities should help their surrounding communities, says Eugene P. Trani. The Chronicle ReviewEPICALLY INTIMATEA woman translator takes on Virgil's quintessentially manly classic, the Aeneid. STRANDS OF ANXIETYTechnologies for genetic screening, manipulation, and enhancement are advancing at an astonishing rate. Are our ethical guidelines keeping up? asks Anita L. Allen. INNOCENT MOTIVESPrenatal screening is not eugenics. Let's calm down and get our scientific and historical references straight, writes Ruth Schwartz Cowan. SUSPICIONWhen racism was overt, its victims knew who scorned them. Now, who can tell? Paranoia reigns, and not just the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's, writes John L. Jackson Jr. ISRAEL AT 60A history of scholarly contention surrounds a contentious history between Jews and Arabs, writes Carlin Romano. LESSONS FROM KENYAFailures in lasting democratic reform led to recent violence, writes Makau Mutua. 'STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE'A new film and book show the scandal at Abu Ghraib in a different light, writes Louis P. Masur. SPIRITED PURSUITSBoth faith and learning are matters of mystery and humility, writes Laurence E. Musgrove. CRITICAL MASS: Reviews of Shakespeare's Wife, by Germaine Greer NOTA BENE: A novel by Lionel Trilling discovered in the archives; and two books about Japanese detective fiction. PORTFOLIO: Jews and urban photography. Letters to the EditorChronicle CareersA PLAN FOR SURVIVING TENURE-YEAR SYNDROMEThe vote was in her favor but not unanimous. So why was everyone acting as if she had terminal cancer? FACING THE TRUTHYou want to apply to teaching-oriented colleges but don't have any classroom experience? THE FUTURE OF PLAGIARISMBack when I was a student, it, like, took a lot of effort to pilfer someone else's work. DETAILS OF AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching and research positions in higher education, administrative and executive jobs, and openings outside academe |