From the issue dated June 28, 2002
THE FACULTY A UNIVERSITY SMEARED The University of Chicago's revision of its venerable "Western Civilization" course has produced a stream of criticism -- much of it polluted with misinformation. REACHING OUT Afraid of harassment charges, many professors have lost sight of one of the great gifts they can offer their students: unconditional love, writes Sara Hopkins-Powell, vice president for academic affairs and provost at Southern Oregon University.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING YEARNING FOR MARS Fragments of Martian rock would mean the world to some scientists, but getting them will be no walk in the park. THEIR FAVORITE THINGS A new generation of scholars asks why so many people have gone to great lengths for so many centuries to collect objects. SCIENCE AND RELIGION The University of Minnesota and the University of Virginia are trying to decide whether to join a telescope project on an Arizona mountain that is considered sacred by some American Indian tribes. CREATURE COMFORTS The federal government is stepping up its monitoring of academic researchers' care of laboratory animals. 5,455 MINDS At the world's largest brain bank, every specimen could mean a breakthrough in knowledge. HARD-PRESSED? The university press is not an endangered species, and new strategies to produce and store information aren't likely to make it so, writes Niko Pfund, academic publisher of Oxford University Press. THINK BIG Confusing the market for books and journals with that for ideas undermines scholarship. Might the university library offer a new model? asks Malcolm Litchfield, director of the Ohio State University Press. YANKED If the British shared the Booker Prize with Americans, the result might be ever so much more open-minded, but ever so much less fun, writes Elaine Showalter, a professor of English at Princeton University.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS SCIENCE AND RELIGION The University of Minnesota and the University of Virginia are trying to decide whether to join a telescope project on an Arizona mountain that is considered sacred by some American Indian tribes. CREATURE COMFORTS The federal government is stepping up its monitoring of academic researchers' care of laboratory animals.
MONEY & MANAGEMENT FORMULA FOR SUCCESS The Keiser Colleges system profits by limiting its growth to Florida while providing students with courses they need to get better jobs. DREAMING IS FREE What eight college presidents would do with a billion dollars.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TOMORROW THE WORLD? Universitas 21, a consortium of 17 universities on 4 continents, expects to begin offering online courses soon. Supporters, critics, and competitors are watching. E PLURIBUS UNUM A collaborative virtual classics department demonstrates the promise, and fragility, of online collaboration, write two scholars.
STUDENTS MEN WANTED Two-year colleges do some soul-searching about why they have problems attracting male students.
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INTERNATIONAL IN PERU, TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION? Salomón Lerner Febres, president of Catholic University, leads a commission that is examining two decades of political violence in the country. TOMORROW THE WORLD? Universitas 21, a consortium of 17 universities on 4 continents, expects to begin offering online courses soon. Supporters, critics, and competitors are watching.
THE CHRONICLE REVIEW REACHING OUT Afraid of harassment charges, many professors have lost sight of one of the great gifts they can offer their students: unconditional love, writes Sara Hopkins-Powell, vice president for academic affairs and provost at Southern Oregon University. HARD-PRESSED? The university press is not an endangered species, and new strategies to produce and store information aren't likely to make it so, writes Niko Pfund, academic publisher of Oxford University Press. THINK BIG Confusing the market for books and journals with that for ideas undermines scholarship. Might the university library offer a new model? asks Malcolm Litchfield, director of the Ohio State University Press. YANKED If the British shared the Booker Prize with Americans, the result might be ever so much more open-minded, but ever so much less fun, writes Elaine Showalter, a professor of English at Princeton University. STORY TIME Does the booming field of narratology make for a good yarn, or a good yawn? asks Carlin Romano, critic at large for The Chronicle. DREAMING IS FREE What eight college presidents would do with a billion dollars. E PLURIBUS UNUM A collaborative virtual classics department demonstrates the promise, and fragility, of online collaboration, write two scholars. WIT'S END Taking high comedy too seriously undermines its seriousness. A Tony-winning production of Private Lives illustrates the point, writes Steve Vineberg, a professor of theater and film at the College of the Holy Cross. EARTH, EXPOSED An exhibition and book of Emmet Gowin's aerial photographs prompts the question: While we've altered our planet, has our planet altered us? USING LEARNING WELL Wisdom is more crucial even than knowledge. Fortunately, it can be taught, writes Robert J. Sternberg, a professor of psychology and education at Yale University.
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