Items relevant to more than one category
may appear more than once in this guide.
To read the complete text of the article, click on the highlighted words.
INTERNATIONAL
IN EASTERN EUROPE, STALLED PROGRESS
The process of reforming antiquated higher-education systems
has slowed, frustrating many students and faculty members: A59
- Two very different institutions, both leaders of
education reform in Eastern Europe, have been honored
with Hannah Arendt Awards: A60
- IN THE UNITED STATES, Carleton College has become one of the
most popular destinations for budding Japanese diplomats who
are studying abroad: A59
- ALSO IN THE UNITED STATES, the Institute of International
Education has published two guides to help students and
scholars find sources of financial aid for overseas
study: A59
- IN MEXICO, professors and scholars built a satellite that
was successfully launched last month from a site in
Russia: A61
- IN GERMANY, university officials in Berlin have urged the
government not to make further cuts in the education
budget: A61
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
NOBEL WINNERS
Ten scholars were among those honored for their achievements in
chemistry, economics, medicine, and physics: A13
RETHINKING GERTRUDE STEIN
A new article presents evidence that the avant-garde writer and
herald of modernism in fact supported the collaborationist
Vichy government in France during World War II: A14
THE POWER OF THE INDIVIDUAL
A new book by Nathan Stoltzfus, a historian at Florida State
University, examines a little-known protest in Berlin that
saved the lives of 2,000 Jews in 1943: A9
- THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, its history and its legacy, is the
subject of a conference this month at Georgia State
University: A10
- LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S writings show the influence of the Civil
War, a new article says: A16
- ADDING IRON TO THE OCEAN could help decrease the amount of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by spurring a bloom of
phytoplankton, according to articles in "Nature": A16
- THREE STUDIES OF AIDS indicate that combinations of drugs
fight the virus more effectively than a single drug: A16
- HOT TYPE: A18
- Two English professors have put out a call for
"theoretically informed but jargon-free" essays on the
cultural significance of the basketball player Dennis
Rodman.
- The new editors of Art Bulletin and Art Journal plan
to make their journals livelier and more reflective of
ferment in the field.
- 118 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A17-22
PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL CONCERNS
BAD OPTIONS
Some graduate students who hope to join the professoriate are
finding their careers stymied as more and more universities
consider cutting back or eliminating their programs: A10
INTELLECTUAL MUSCLE
Leaders in academe and organized labor met for a teach-in at
Columbia University to forge a new alliance between the two
long-alienated groups: A11
SE HABLA ESPANOL?
A new report says that enrollments in Spanish-language courses
are booming, while fewer people are studying French, German,
and Russian: A12
REWARDING EDUCATIONAL RENEWAL
The Pew Charitable Trusts honored three colleges for their
efforts to reform their undergraduate programs and to reshape
their institutional cultures: A58
- FOUR SCHOLARS were named U.S. Professors of the Year by the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: A9
- A "SCHMOOZERS GROUP" at the University of Pennsylvania
fosters conversation about interdisciplinary problems in the
biological sciences: A10
- A PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE professor was fired and convicted
of public drinking for having a beer in his office: A8
- ROSS MARGRAVES, JR., the former chairman of Texas A&M
University's Board of Regents, was convicted of using a
state-owned airplane for personal business: A8
- DAVID BALTIMORE, once banished from the government's fight
against AIDS, is now the top choice to head a panel
overseeing research on an AIDS vaccine: A27
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY FOR A NEW CAMPUS
Educators at California State University at Monterey Bay hope
that computers will change the way students learn there, but
they admit that it hasn't happened yet: A23
SPEEDING UP THE INTERNET
President Clinton has proposed spending $500-million to improve
the Internet and the computing capabilities of about 100
universities and federal laboratories: A25
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
ABANDONING THE POOR?
Following their tradition, Democrats have promised to help
students pay for higher education, but critics see the
proposals as an election-year tactic aimed at the middle
class: A27
HELPING DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS
A lobbying campaign won over Republican members of Congress who
were skeptical of the TRIO programs: A28
THE POLITICS OF SCIENCE
Members of a new federal panel on bioethics fear that
controversies over abortion may hinder their work: A29
GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS
Job training has emerged as a major higher-education issue in
this fall's campaigns: A30
LETTER OF THE LAW
The spending bill signed by President Clinton last month puts
limits on the U.S. Education Department's ability to grant
exemptions to student-aid regulations: A33
SPEEDING UP THE INTERNET
President Clinton has proposed spending $500-million to improve
the Internet and the computing capabilities of about 100
universities and federal laboratories: A25
- DAVID BALTIMORE, once banished from the government's fight
against AIDS, is now the top choice to head a panel
overseeing research on an AIDS vaccine: A27
- THE U.S. SUPREME COURT declined to hear the case of the
"sensuality school" vs. the San Francisco Chronicle: A27
- THE U.S. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT hired loan guarantors to
service the direct-lending program: A29
- A DISABLED-STUDENTS GROUP sued Virginia, alleging that it
was violating the "motor-voter" registration law: A30
- BILL CLINTON AND BOB DOLE sparred over their education
policies at the first Presidential debate: A33
- THE PRIVATIZATION of Sallie Mae and Connie Lee will give
public schools in the District of Columbia an unexpected
windfall: A33
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
PRESIDENTIAL PAY
Franklyn G. Jenifer, who left Howard University's presidency
in 1994, received more than $800,000 in compensation that year,
making him the highest-paid chief executive of a college: A34
- A list of the best-paid employees at 479 private colleges
and universities in the 1993-94 and 1994-95 academic
years: A37-55
- A new law will make it easier to examine the tax forms
filed with the Internal Revenue Service by private
colleges and other non-profit organizations: A36
- THE BOSTON RED SOX gave $30,000 to the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst for courses marking the 50th
anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking of the race
barrier in major league baseball: A34
- MICHAEL JORDAN donated $1-million to the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, his alma mater, to create the
Jordan Institute for Families: A34
- A LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY official was found to have
given $25,000 in financial aid to white students instead of
the minority students for which the grants were intended: A8
- THE LARGEST NORWAY SPRUCE in the United States is located on
the campus of Hamilton College: A8
STUDENTS
CREATING TRADITIONS
Murray State University hopes its residential colleges will
build an esprit de corps among students that will encourage
them to stay until they graduate: A57
IMPROVING UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
Each of three colleges has been awarded $250,000 from the Pew
Charitable Trusts for its efforts to develop better ways to
teach its students: A58
LETTER OF THE LAW
The spending bill signed by President Clinton last month puts
limits on the U.S. Education Department's ability to grant
exemptions to student-aid regulations: A33
ANGELS IN ACADEME
Wabash College, an all-male institution in Indiana, staged a rare student production of Angels in America, Tony Kushner's
epic drama of gay life, to rave reviews: B2
NEW MEMORIAL AT THE LITTLE BIGHORN
American Indian students from Utah State University are using
landscape architecture to make peace with their past and to
find a place for themselves in the future: B8
- RESEARCHERS at the University of Pennsylvania say students
should consider the long-term economic impact of their
choice of college: A57
- BENNINGTON COLLEGE has pulled the plug on students' annual
"Dress-to-Get-Laid Party": A57
- A BLAZE DESTROYED a fraternity house at Iowa State
University that had been home to 22 students: A8
- ABOUT 180 STUDENTS at Warren Wilson College boycotted
classes and campus jobs to protest a proposed increase in
the college's enrollment: A8
- THE FREE BURMA COALITION sponsored a two-day fast at 67
colleges in the United States and abroad: A9
- CANADIAN STUDENTS of urban history are being mentored on
line by professors scattered around the world: A24
ATHLETICS
- MOREHOUSE COLLEGE suspended four students, including three
basketball players, who have been charged with rape: A58
- DESTRUCTIVE FOOTBALL FANS at the Ohio State University are
causing problems for the local police department: A58
- CEDRIC DEMPSEY, the executive director of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association, will stay on the job
through 2001: A58
- AN OLD LANDMARK in Buffalo has become the new mascot of
the State University of New York at Buffalo: A9
OPINION & LETTERS
THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND GENOCIDE
Understanding the Nazi perpetrators of the Holocaust requires
an investigation of human nature as well as of German culture,
says Christopher Browning, a history professor at Pacific
Lutheran University: A72
ELECTION TURNOUT
The best way to equalize participation in the democratic
process is to institute mandatory voting, argues Arend
Lijphart, a professor of political science at the University of
California at San Diego: B3
THE RECRUITING WARS
Instead of competing for students, colleges should work
together to insure that all students who want an education find
places at appropriate institutions, writes Nancy Hoffman, of
Brown University: B5
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
ANGELS IN ACADEME
Wabash College, an all-male institution in Indiana, staged a rare student production of "Angels in America," Tony Kushner's
epic drama of gay life, to rave reviews: B2
NEW MEMORIAL AT THE LITTLE BIGHORN
American Indian students from Utah State University are using
landscape architecture to make peace with their past and to
find a place for themselves in the future: B8
AN OBJECTIVE EYE
Catherine Wagner's scientific photographs are on display at the
Washington University Gallery of Art through November 3: B84
| ||
