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From the issue dated June 9, 2006 |
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Special Report: The Growing DivideDAMNED IF THEY DOEarning money for college can hurt working-class students when it comes to qualifying for federal aid. Short SubjectsMASCOT WATCHWichita State University's mascot gets a makeover, Chowan University's teams get a new nickname, California Lutheran University adds a logo for women's teams, and fans at Auburn University root for War Eagle IV's recovery from skin cancer. RED, AND WELL-READ: Enthusiasm is waning in Vietnam for a Jeopardy-style event that tests students' knowledge of Marx, Lenin, and Ho Chi Minh. 40 HOURS, AS YOU LIKE IT: To ease the burden of high gas prices, Lynchburg College is allowing employees to work four-day schedules. MUDDY MEMORIES: Several alumnae of Hollins University planned to commemorate their 1966 raft trip down the Mississippi River with a reunion at the Virginia women's institution this month. PRETTY UGLY: A classics professor shares his students' picks of the least and most beautiful words in the English language. The FacultyTWEED OFFCary Nelson, an insider who acts like an outsider, wants to shake up the AAUP as its new president. REPORTING, EDITING, CONNECTINGJournalists from big-city newspapers go to New Orleans to help train students from historically black colleges. Hurricane drills are part of the course. MEANING OF LIFE. DISCUSS.Students are fascinated by the "big questions." Those are worth tackling even if you only have small to medium-size answers, writes W. Robert Connor, president of the Teagle Foundation. THE DA VINCI MODEReligion scholars, like evangelical-Christian leaders, may as well use Dan Brown's blockbuster and its movie adaptation as a springboard for discussion, writes Timothy K. Beal, a professor of religion and director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. A TOUGH-LOVE MANIFESTO FOR PROFESSORSIf we want graduates who won't disgrace us, we have to reverse the deprofessionalization of faculty members. DISSERTATIONS AND DEATHAt some point on the long march toward the dissertation, writes the spouse of a Ph.D. candidate, you just want it to be over. PEER REVIEW: The new president of the California Institute of Technology is the provost at the George Institute of Technology. ... A cell biologist from the University of California at San Diego will direct a new institute at Cornell University. ... California State University-East Bay has a new president. ... And other leadership changes in higher education. SYLLABUS: In an interdisciplinary course, an associate professor of electrical engineering at Santa Clara University asks students to think about a mathematical way to prove or disprove the existence of God. THE INVENTION TRACK: The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents has voted to consider faculty members' patents and the commercialization of their research in deciding whether to grant them tenure. DEFENDING CRITICAL THINKING: State-imposed restrictions on classroom discussion, under consideration in Pennsylvania, would erode the learning process, say opponents of the proposal. YEARLONG EXTENSION: Dartmouth College will begin offering paid leave to male and female graduate students following the birth or adoption of a child. Research & BooksTHE SHAPE OF THE WEBThe debate over whether Internet providers can play favorites harks back to arguments over British wharves and Midwestern grain elevators. NO MORE INDEX CARDSTwo computer programs take on the tedious chore of crafting footnotes and bibliographies. WHEN WORD IS DEEDScholars write not just to advance their careers, but because writing is their mode of being, writes William Germano, a visiting scholar at New York University. OPEN TO PERSUASIONSWhere secular debate has exhausted itself, academe should welcome religious perspectives, writes C. John Sommerville, a professor emeritus of English history at the University of Florida. RESEARCH WITH REACHAcademe pays lip service to public scholarship. What's lacking are concrete promotion guidelines for those who practice it, write Nancy Cantor, chancellor of Syracuse University, and Steven D. Lavine, president of the California Institute of the Arts. WARMING TO THE SUBJECT: The tropics have expanded their reach, a widening that may increase the number of droughts, say researchers. VERBATIM: An assistant professor at the University of Southern California discusses the history of the clash between the music industry's view of copyright and musicians' use of "sampling." HOT TYPE: A literary prize won by two professors at Yale University was rescinded because of what the labor-affiliated foundation that made the award found was the anti-union activity of one of them. NOTA BENE: A historian highlights an activist's contradictions in David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary. THE INVENTION TRACK: The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents has voted to consider faculty members' patents and the commercialization of their research in deciding whether to grant them tenure. Government & PoliticsDAMNED IF THEY DOEarning money for college can hurt working-class students when it comes to qualifying for federal aid. AN OPEN BOOKThe Connecticut library group that received a secret demand for its patrons' records under the Patriot Act tells its story. SENSITIVE TECHNOLOGIES: The Commerce Department has withdrawn a proposed rule on "deemed exports," rejecting the last of the controversial changes that colleges said would have burdened them with paperwork and stymied foreigners' participation in academic research. IN BRIEF: A roundup of higher-education news from Washington and the states. Money & ManagementA MIRROR ON COMMUNITY COLLEGESSome two-year institutions have established internal research offices, which they say helps them devise more-effective policies. SPACE STRATEGIESMany admissions officials are scrambling to prepare their campuses for larger freshman classes than they had expected. THE ACCIDENTAL ADMINISTRATORFor the many academics who wind up corralled into administration, we offer this handy survival guide. JUST LOOK AROUND: The state of campus facilities can play a key role in prospective students' enrollment decisions, a study has found. PRICEY DIPLOMAS: Inflation for higher education will increase 5 percent in the 2006 fiscal year, according to an index. HOT SEAT: The University of Missouri at Columbia is having trouble filling its Kenneth L. Lay chair in economics. MONEY TO EXPAND: The government of Singapore has invested $300-million in a Philadelphia college-housing company. PRIVATE EDUCATION COMPANY SOLD: Delta Educational Systems Inc., which operates five colleges with 16 campuses, has been sold to the owner of the four-campus National Career College. GENDER-BIAS CASE: A federal appeals court has ruled that a former chaplain at Gannon University may proceed with her lawsuit accusing the institution of discriminating against her. IN BRIEF: A roundup of higher-education news. PEER REVIEW: The new president of the California Institute of Technology is the provost at the George Institute of Technology. ... A cell biologist from the University of California at San Diego will direct a new institute at Cornell University. ... California State University-East Bay has a new president. ... And other leadership changes in higher education. Information TechnologyAN OPEN BOOKThe Connecticut library group that received a secret demand for its patrons' records under the Patriot Act tells its story. NO MORE INDEX CARDSTwo computer programs take on the tedious chore of crafting footnotes and bibliographies. THE SHAPE OF THE WEBThe debate over whether Internet providers can play favorites harks back to arguments over British wharves and Midwestern grain elevators. GEEKS TO GLAMOUR: Computer science, long seen as a club for boys with few social skills, is about to get a makeover from a consortium of 14 colleges. THE WIRED CAMPUS: A roundup of higher-education technology news. StudentsSPACE STRATEGIESMany admissions officials are scrambling to prepare their campuses for larger freshman classes than they had expected. DAMNED IF THEY DOEarning money for college can hurt working-class students when it comes to qualifying for federal aid. REPORTING, EDITING, CONNECTINGJournalists from big-city newspapers go to New Orleans to help train students from historically black colleges. Hurricane drills are part of the course. HIRE AND HIRE: College students venturing into the job market may find more options for job hunting than last year, according to a survey of prospective employers. DOWN IN DURHAM: Duke University, still stinging from its lacrosse-team scandal, expects slightly fewer students to accept admission offers this year than last. AthleticsMASCOT WATCHWichita State University's mascot gets a makeover, Chowan University's teams get a new nickname, California Lutheran University adds a logo for women's teams, and fans at Auburn University root for War Eagle IV's recovery from skin cancer. RINGING UP PENALTIES: The National Collegiate Athletic Association has placed the University of Oklahoma on probation for two years after finding that four men's basketball coaches had made hundreds of impermissible telephone calls to recruits. 2 ON PROBATION: The NCAA has penalized Savannah State University and Bradley University for recruiting violations. InternationalLOST IN TIMEVietnam's higher-education system is 20 to 30 years behind those in more-developed countries, a lag that threatens the nation's burgeoning economic development. DISMISSED: A judge in the Philippines has thrown out a libel suit against parents who complained after losing money in a tuition-prepayment plan. CASTE QUESTIONS: India's Supreme Court has asked the government for details of its plan to expand the use of quotas in university admissions. 'MORAL RESPONSIBILITY': Britain's largest faculty union approved a controversial measure that calls on its 67,000 members to consider individually boycotting Israeli academics. BERLIN CONFERENCE: An international group of educators, higher-education experts, and publishers has come up with a set of principles of good practice for ranking colleges and universities. TORTURE REPORTED: Zimbabwean police officers arrested dozens of university students after protests over tuition increases. Notes From AcademeREPORTING, EDITING, CONNECTINGJournalists from big-city newspapers go to New Orleans to help train students from historically black colleges. Hurricane drills are part of the course. The Chronicle ReviewWHEN WORD IS DEEDScholars write not just to advance their careers, but because writing is their mode of being, writes William Germano, a visiting scholar at New York University. OPEN TO PERSUASIONSWhere secular debate has exhausted itself, academe should welcome religious perspectives, writes C. John Sommerville, a professor emeritus of English history at the University of Florida. MEANING OF LIFE. DISCUSS.Students are fascinated by the "big questions." Those are worth tackling even if you only have small to medium-size answers, writes W. Robert Connor, president of the Teagle Foundation. FIGURE PAINTINGBeauty might not be quantifiable, but style is, as demonstrated by Brueghel's wavelets, Pollock's fractals, and other measures, writes Daniel Rockmore, a professor of math and computer science at Dartmouth College. THE LATINO GHOSTRoberto Clemente, an associate professor of counseling and human services in the College of Education at Roosevelt University, finds that avoiding ethnically stereotypical behaviors has become his ethnic behavior. THE JUDGES' JUDGECould Ronald Dworkin's legal principles stand the test of practice? asks Carlin Romano, critic at large for The Chronicle. THE DA VINCI MODEReligion scholars, like evangelical-Christian leaders, may as well use Dan Brown's blockbuster and its movie adaptation as a springboard for discussion, writes Timothy K. Beal, a professor of religion and director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. MEN'S ROOMAs masculinity becomes blurred, bastions of masculinity become scarce. RESEARCH WITH REACHAcademe pays lip service to public scholarship. What's lacking are concrete promotion guidelines for those who practice it, write Nancy Cantor, chancellor of Syracuse University, and Steven D. Lavine, president of the California Institute of the Arts. MELANGEExcerpts from books of interest to academe. Letters to the EditorChronicle CareersA TOUGH-LOVE MANIFESTO FOR PROFESSORSIf we want graduates who won't disgrace us, we have to reverse the deprofessionalization of faculty members. THE ACCIDENTAL ADMINISTRATORFor the many academics who wind up corralled into administration, we offer this handy survival guide. DISSERTATIONS AND DEATHAt some point on the long march toward the dissertation, writes the spouse of a Ph.D. candidate, you just want it to be over. DETAILS OF AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching and research positions in higher education, administrative and executive jobs, and openings outside academe |