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INTERNATIONAL
IN PERU, PEACE AND PROSPERITY
New universities, which will be run like private businesses,
are cropping up to accommodate a surge in enrollment: A37
IN SERBIA, SUSTAINED PROTESTS
In an attempt to promote democracy, students have led the
biggest, most sustained opposition to the Serbian government
in years: A38
IN EUROPE, PACT ON FOREIGN DEGREES
International negotiators have drafted a treaty that will make
it simpler for European countries to recognize diplomas awarded
by universities in other nations: A39
IN HONG KONG, NEW FEARS
Comments by Tung Chee-hwa, the man who will be the first chief
executive under Chinese rule, have left many academics worried
about limits on what they can study and say: A39
IN AUSTRALIA, A NATIVE SON
Mudrooroo, the country's most accomplished Aboriginal writer,
offers his readers a unique perspective on his people's
experience: B2
- IN THE U.S., BELGIUM, AND CANADA, new books help disabled
students who are interested in foreign study: A37
- IN THE UNITED STATES, a group is exploring collaboration
among Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.: A37
- ALSO IN THE UNITED STATES, three Centralia College employees
were cleared of allegedly kidnaping a Russian exchange
student: A8
- IN CHINA, officials have announced plans to revamp
liberal-arts curricula: A40
- IN AUSTRALIA, academics are warning that a tuition hike will
hurt enrollment: A40
- IN ISRAEL, the Technion technology institute has received
$30-million to create a management school: A40
- IN THE WEST BANK, Palestinian students tangled with Israeli
soldiers at Hebron University: A40
- IN BURMA, the country's military government closed two
universities in the wake of student protests: A40
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
REINVENTING CHRISTMAS
In a new book, Stephen Nissenbaum, a historian at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, examines how America
transformed the holiday from a "pagan" ritual into a
celebration of consumerism: A13
BLACK RENAISSANCE/RENAISSANCE NOIRE
The editors of a new journal hope to bring together black
artists and intellectuals from around the world in a format
that will appeal to general audiences: A14
CONDUCTOR ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Stuart Seely Sprague, a historian at Morehead State University,
has found and edited a rare account by a black person of his
experiences leading American slaves to freedom: A9
BOOKS IN CHAINS
As independent bookstores fold, superstores are stocking more
scholarly works, but that may not be in the best interests of
academic publishers or writers, writes James Shapiro, a
literature professor at Columbia University: B8
NOTES OF A NATIVE SON
Mudrooroo, Australia's most accomplished Aboriginal writer,
offers his readers a unique perspective on his people's
experience: B2
THE FACULTY
EVALUATING FACULTY MEMBERS
Many professors are criticizing the University of Texas at
Austin for proceeding with a policy to establish post-tenure
reviews: A10
YALE'S TOUGH TENURE STANDARDS
After a fierce debate about Yale University's tough standards
on tenure, it appears unlikely that the rules governing
lifetime appointments for professors will be eased: A11
DEBATE OVER FREE EXPRESSION
A federal appeals court has vacated a decision that upheld the
right of the University of Minnesota at Duluth to remove
photographs of two faculty members from a display case: A12
- A PROFESSOR WANTS RUTGERS
University to protect
"transgendered" people on the campus: A10
- THE PRESIDENT of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. was among more than 300
people who were arrested during a labor protest at Yale
University: A8
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
UNEQUAL ACCESS TO THE INTERNET
At the University of Maryland at College Park, scholars are
examining how black communities are being left behind in the
technological revolution and what can be done about that: A19
GOOD NEWS FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE
Microsoft Corporation's plan to triple the size of its
basic-research division could improve job prospects and the
quality of research in the field: A20
REVISITING THE INDECENCY LAW
The U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it will review the
constitutionality of a measure designed to protect children
from sexually explicit material posted on line: A20
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
CONSOLIDATION IN MINNESOTA
Academics and lawmakers are trying to adjust to the merger of
almost all of the state's public colleges and universities: A23
PROTECTING ACADEMIC HOSPITALS
In many states, legislators want to stop corporate health-care
networks from taking over university-run medical centers: A25
COMPLICATIONS FOR PROPOSITION 209
A federal judge has ordered the University of California system
to stop trying to comply with a new amendment to the state
constitution banning affirmative-action programs: A25
BETTER ELECTIONS
The best way to reform political campaigns is to use money from
the public treasury to finance them, rather than to curb the
power of political parties, writes Donald Robinson, a professor
of government at Smith College: B4
EARLY WARNING: NEW RULES AHEAD
Federal agencies have released lists of regulations that they
expect to propose or complete work on in the coming months: A27
- A PROPOSED STATE TAKEOVER of Texas Southern University has
sparked an outcry: A23
- A WORLD-WIDE WEB SITE may keep stolen pets from ending up in
research laboratories: A23
- MICHIGAN LAWMAKERS have voted to allow public colleges to
conduct presidential searches with greater secrecy: A26
- A STATE COURT has rejected rules proposed by New York
authorities to govern the issue of consent in psychiatric
research: A26
- MARYLAND HAS DENIED state grant money to a college because
of its pervasively religious orientation: A26
- A PANEL HAS URGED the National Institutes of Health to
reinstate needle-exchange study that it had suspended: A26
- BUDGET OFFICERS have recommended a $200-million cut in the
1998 fiscal year for the National Institutes of Health: A26
- THE NOBEL LAUREATE David Baltimore has been appointed to
lead the search for AIDS vaccine: A26
- LEO KORNFELD WILL LEAVE the U.S. Education Department: A26
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
COUNTING THE DOLLARS
A survey has found that many colleges are ignoring guidelines
that were intended to facilitate accurate comparisons of their
fund-raising campaigns: A28
- Comparative data on the fund-raising campaigns of 142
colleges and universities in 1994-95: A29
OVERHAULING THE BOARD
A tribal council has dismissed all the trustees of
Sisseton-Wahpeton Community College, charging that they
interfered in the daily operations of the institution: A30
STUDENTS
CRACKING DOWN ON CRIME
Administrators at the University of Pennsylvania are working to
deal with an increase in violent incidents on their campus: A32
- NATIONAL UNIVERSITY has created a scholarship reserved for
victims of domestic violence: A32
- THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH has given commuter students a
place on its campus: A32
- A REPORT SHOWS that graduates in the class of 1997 will find
more job opportunities and better salaries than did their
counterparts in the class of 1996: A34
- THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI will pay a substantial sum to the
families of a student-athlete and his female friend who were
murdered on the campus: A8
- THREE CENTRALIA COLLEGE employees were cleared of kidnaping
an exchange student from Russia: A8
- SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY students and faculty and staff members
looped a giant AIDS ribbon across the university's
quadrangle: A8
- A FORMER STUDENT at the University of South Florida pleaded
guilty to making a bomb threat in April at the
institution: A9
- THE 1997 RHODES scholarships were announced, and The
Chronicle lists the 32 winners: A34
ATHLETICS
INVESTIGATING THEMSELVES
Many colleges facing National Collegiate Athletic Association
investigations are turning to outside lawyers to find out what
rules were broken and to recommend possible self-imposed
punishments: A35
OPINION & LETTERS
A NEW APPROACH TO GRADUATE EDUCATION
Doctoral programs in the humanities must break away from their
obsession with courses, papers, and grades and redefine their
mission in terms of collaborative intellectual inquiry, writes
Peter Brooks, a professor of humanities at Yale University: A52
BETTER ELECTIONS
The best way to reform political campaigns is to use money from
the public treasury to finance them, rather than to curb the
power of political parties, says Donald Robinson, a professor
of government at Smith College: B4
THE ALGER HISS CASE
A month after his death at the age of 92, academics are still
debating whether he was a notorious traitor or a victim of
Red-baiting, writes David Oshinsky, a professor of history at
Rutgers University: B6
BOOKS IN CHAINS
As independent bookstores fold, superstores are stocking more
scholarly works, but that may not be in the best interests of
academic publishers or writers, says James Shapiro, a
literature professor at Columbia University: B8
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
LOS ANGELES LOOKS AT ITSELF
Photographs from the family albums of the city's residents
provide a new perspective on the diversity and sense of
community that define the city, write Kathy Kobayashi and
Kozo Cole, authors of Shades of L.A.: Pictures From Ethnic
Family Albums: B9
INVISIBLE MUSIC
The watercolors and poems of Walter Anderson, an artist,
writer, and naturalist, are featured in a new book, A
Symphony of Animals, published by the University Press of
Mississippi: B72
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