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From the issue dated October 19, 2007 |
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Short Subjects'THE BEST SCHOOL IN THE UNIVERSE'A new tool shows who's been editing colleges' entries in Wikipedia. INK, AND ALCOHOL, IN THEIR BLOOD: A newspaper called The Booze News is written by and for college students who like to drink. GEEK SALE: Students at Washington State University will hold a nerd auction to raise money for women interested in studying computer science. FOUND AND LOST: Scientists caught a rare and long-lived albino ratfish off the coast of Washington State. Too bad for the fish. UPENDING THE CAVEMAN: A professor at St. Lawrence University demythologizes Neanderthal life for his students. The FacultyDRAWN TO THE CENTERYes, conservatives are a small minority of the American professoriate, but faculty members are hardly a bunch of left-wingers, a well-regarded study has found. WAR STORIESA new book on the education of West Point cadets spurs Steven G. Kellman to broader thoughts on curricular intentions. THE ETHICS OF TECHNOLOGYToo many academics ignore the rules that come with their campus-provided computer and e-mail accounts. INTO THE UNKNOWNIs it a stretch to imagine that, just as students have different learning styles, instructors might have different teaching styles? SYLLABUS: Psychology students at Baldwin-Wallace College discuss their own experiences in a class on divorce. PEER REVIEW: Eastern Michigan University is sued by its former president as a search committee begins work on finding a new chief executive ... California State University at Sacramento has hired a public-relations specialist who helped it, at no cost, through a big-game scandal ... The executive director of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools has announced his retirement. TRENDS IN INSURANCE: A survey finds that more institutions are offering benefits to domestic partners of employees. WHAT SPORTS? Faculty members involved in governance say they feel disconnected from their institutions' athletics programs, the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics reports. Research & BooksTHE LIBRARIANS' REVOLUTIONLibrary administrators vow to fight against what they see as scholarly societies' unseemly push for profits. UNSHUSHEDEight young librarians ponder aloud the big questions faced by the profession. LABS UNDER THE MICROSCOPEA recent spate of security lapses is raising questions about the safety of the nation's biodefense laboratories. SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARSInmates at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility find common ground with Richard II and Macbeth. DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCETo properly interpret the Mommy Wars, writes Nora S. Newcombe, it helps to know who's drawing up the battle plans. HEAVY MEDALS: European scientists dominated this year's Nobel Prizes, and the literature award went to Doris Lessing. VERBATIM: A geographer from UCLA who is an expert on partition and secessionist movements explains Belgium's divisions. HOT TYPE: Baylor University Press has published the first of three memoirs by members of the Branch Davidians, and it has exceeded expected sales. NOTA BENE: A book by a Washington College historian explains why Louisiana's highest court ruled in favor of a slave over a slave owner. FOUND AND LOST: Scientists caught a rare and long-lived albino ratfish off the coast of Washington State. Too bad for the fish. Government & Politics5 NEW TARGETSThe prominent affirmative-action critic Ward Connerly appears well on his way to getting several more states to ban the use of racial, ethnic, and gender preferences by public colleges and other state agencies. LABS UNDER THE MICROSCOPEA recent spate of security lapses is raising questions about the safety of the nation's biodefense laboratories. THE TOUGH RESPONSE TO 'SOFT POWER'The United States has limited ability to spur liberalization within Iran. Its efforts to do so only aid the calculating and paranoid forces of repression, write Haleh Esfandiari and Robert S. Litwak. PEACE THENA protest at the Pentagon 40 years ago this month represented all that was right with the antiwar movement, writes Maurice Isserman. ELECTIONS IN THE BLUEGRASS STATE: Candidates for governor in Kentucky propose different ways to keep the state's higher-education reforms on track. NOT CONSERVATIVE ENOUGH? The issue of evolution could play in a role in Republican candidates' fight to be declared fittest. I'LL SCRATCH YOUR BACK: Mitt Romney has a plan to provide financial relief to college students. The only catch is that they have to help raise money to get him elected president. LEGACY THREATENED: The Massachusetts governor is about to reverse stem-cell rules imposed by Mitt Romney's administration. 'NOT LIKE A SAVINGS ACCOUNT': Four major higher-education associations testify that a recent hearing on endowments painted a "disingenuous picture." VOLUNTARY STANDARDS SUGGESTED: Members of Congress say the federal government should do more to coordinate the teaching of elementary- and secondary-school science and mathematics. SUPREME COURT NEWS: Texas A&M University at College Station has been protected from legal responsibility for the deaths and injuries caused by the 1999 bonfire collapse. IN THE STATES: A roundup of higher-education news from around the country. Money & ManagementENGINEERING A UNIONMore than three decades after NYU disbanded its engineering school, sending dozens of faculty members to what is now Polytechnic University, trustees of both universities have voted to move forward with a merger. PRINCIPLED DEAL: Harvard University has tried to serve the public good in its plans to license a new vaccine technique. SECOND OPINION: The School of Public Health at Saint Louis University is in talks about moving to its more nationally prominent neighbor, Washington University in St. Louis. TRENDS IN INSURANCE: A survey finds that more institutions are offering benefits to domestic partners of employees. PLANNING FOR THE WORST: Many colleges' crisis-management plans will not help with the crises that they are most likely to face, a survey shows. MAJOR GIFT: An alumnus who is a cancer survivor has given the Massachusetts Institute of Technology $100-million toward a new cancer research center. GUILTY PLEA: A former economics professor at Charleston Southern University faces up to 45 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to defrauding investors. PEER REVIEW: Eastern Michigan University is sued by its former president as a search committee begins work on finding a new chief executive ... California State University at Sacramento has hired a public-relations specialist who helped it, at no cost, through a big-game scandal ... The executive director of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools has announced his retirement. Information TechnologyUNSHUSHEDEight young librarians ponder aloud the big questions faced by the profession. THE LIBRARIANS' REVOLUTIONLibrary administrators vow to fight against what they see as scholarly societies' unseemly push for profits. 'THE BEST SCHOOL IN THE UNIVERSE'A new tool shows who's been editing colleges' entries in Wikipedia. THE ETHICS OF TECHNOLOGYToo many academics ignore the rules that come with their campus-provided computer and e-mail accounts. HERE WE GO AGAIN: Members of Congress reintroduce a measure intended to combat computer-based piracy in colleges. LINKED IN WITH: Michael Zastrocky, who forecasts information-technology trends in higher education. StudentsA ROOM OF THEIR OWNA new space at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania lets commuter students relax and even stay overnight, in an effort to make them feel more connected to the campus. INK, AND ALCOHOL, IN THEIR BLOOD: A newspaper called The Booze News is written by and for college students who like to drink. GEEK SALE: Students at Washington State University will hold a nerd auction to raise money for women interested in studying computer science. Athletics'DISTURBING QUESTIONS'The number of minority coaches leading the nation's largest collegiate football programs remains low, a report says. WHAT SPORTS? Faculty members involved in governance say they feel disconnected from their institutions' athletics programs, the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics reports. InternationalDUBAI'S BILLIONSOn the Persian Gulf, one wealthy emirate plans to challenge the higher-education supremacy of another. A HISTORY OF VIOLENCEMost Americans don't know much about what led to the recent protests and crackdown in Myanmar, also known as Burma. Brian Joseph suggests some print and online resources that can help bring you up to speed. MORE AUTONOMY FOR UNIVERSITIES: The government of Malaysia plans to turn the country into a center of higher education in Southeast Asia. STUDY ABROAD STUDIED: A new survey by the Forum on Education Abroad finds widely varying practices among institutions that send students overseas. NOT KEEPING PACE: In a recent report on higher education in India, the World Bank calls for the creation of more private universities, the involvement of industry, and greater autonomy for institutions. Notes From AcademeSHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARSInmates at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility find common ground with Richard II and Macbeth. The Chronicle ReviewTHE TOUGH RESPONSE TO 'SOFT POWER'The United States has limited ability to spur liberalization within Iran. Its efforts to do so only aid the calculating and paranoid forces of repression, write Haleh Esfandiari and Robert S. Litwak. THE PAWS THAT REFRESHComing to a multiplex near you: a G-rated radical interspecies lovefest. By Randy Malamud. ERRATA BOUTIQUETo err is human; to correct, unlikely, write Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George. WAR STORIESA new book on the education of West Point cadets spurs Steven G. Kellman to broader thoughts on curricular intentions. THE FULLER BRUSHOFFMargaret Fuller hasn't gotten her due as a primary figure among American Transcendentalists. Some recent books are correcting that, writes Carlin Romano. PEACE THENA protest at the Pentagon 40 years ago this month represented all that was right with the antiwar movement, writes Maurice Isserman. A HISTORY OF VIOLENCEMost Americans don't know much about what led to the recent protests and crackdown in Myanmar, also known as Burma. Brian Joseph suggests some print and online resources that can help bring you up to speed. FLUID STATESA photographer captures two and a half decades in the life of a women's swimming group. DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCETo properly interpret the Mommy Wars, writes Nora S. Newcombe, it helps to know who's drawing up the battle plans. CRITICAL MASS: Anthropologists embedded with military units. Letters to the EditorChronicle CareersTHE ETHICS OF TECHNOLOGYToo many academics ignore the rules that come with their campus-provided computer and e-mail accounts. INTO THE UNKNOWNIs it a stretch to imagine that, just as students have different learning styles, instructors might have different teaching styles? REALITIES OF THE DECANAL SUITEA new dean learns just how much time he spends behind his closed, decoration-free, joyless door. DETAILS OF AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching and research positions in higher education, administrative and executive jobs, and openings outside academe |