Academe Today: Complete Contents

A GUIDE to the January 17, 1997, Chronicle

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INTERNATIONAL

IN EASTERN EUROPE, A B-SCHOOL BOOM
Since the fall of Communist governments throughout the region, hundreds of new business schools have started up, but their quality varies widely: A47

IN CROATIA, ACADEMICS WORRY
Recent actions against a philanthropic foundation have academics concerned that the government is trying to intimidate its critics: A48

  • IN SERBIA, the top general of the Yugoslav army has indirectly backed students protesting the regime of Slobodan Milosevic: A47

  • IN BANGLADESH, the Prime Minister has vowed to quell campus violence: A47

  • IN INDIA, a cheating scandal has rocked the nation's University Grants Commission: A47

  • IN CANADA, Quebec will hike tuition for non-resident students: A49

  • IN THE UNITED STATES, a student leader during the Tiananmen Square protests was denied a visa for Hong Kong by a British consulate: A49

  • IN CHINA, most of the best students want to study overseas, according to a survey conducted on the Internet: A49

  • IN BURMA, officials are keeping major universities closed in the capital city of Rangoon: A49

RESEARCH & PUBLISHING

THE DEBATE OVER "EBONICS"
While pundits blast the school board in Oakland, Cal., for calling black English a language, many linguistics scholars say the discussion has been uninformed: A16

HELPING THE HOMELESS
Lillian Gelberg, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, is investigating what local hospitals and clinics can do to improve the health of street people: A17

WINNING OVER THE CRITICS
Some scholars at the American Historical Association's annual meeting gave the director Oliver Stone a surprisingly warm reception and defended the integrity of his films: A18

STUDYING THE NEW DEAL
Roosevelt University is home to a new center of archival material, photographs, books, and memorabilia about F.D.R. and his Administration: A10

NOTES FROM ACADEME
Aptullah Kuran, a professor at the University of the Bosphorus, is trying to give Sinan ibn Abdulmennan, considered by many to have been Turkey's greatest architect ever, the scholarly recognition he deserves: B2

THE FACULTY

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
Ten years after Allan Bloom's best seller appeared, scholars are still debating the thesis of a book that has shaped the "culture wars": A14

  • CORPORATE CHIEFS say a liberal-arts education matters, according to a study financed by the AT&T Foundation: A14

  • A SEXUAL-ASSAULT COMPLAINT by a student has prompted two Truman State University scholars to resign: A16

  • NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY has fired an adjunct professor who taught about the Holocaust in his design course: A16

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA at Berkeley has settled a gender-bias lawsuit filed on behalf of a professor who was denied tenure at the institution: A10

  • A PROFESSOR at the State University of New York College at Buffalo has been accused of tying up a male student during a role-playing game in a motel room: A10

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

THE "ELECTRONIC VILLAGE"
Blacksburg, Va., home of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, is creating an identity for itself in the on-line world: A24

FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)

A PRESIDENTIAL PUSH
As President Clinton campaigns for tax breaks to help students pay for college, many educators are uncertain whether to sign on to the proposals: A33

REPAYING STUDENT LOANS
The U.S. Education Department released statistics showing that the rate at which students default on their loans has dropped to its lowest point since it was first measured, in 1988: A34

REVIEWING REMEDIATION
A study of Texas's remedial-education system has produced sharply divergent views by state officials and educators: A35

TUITION CONTROVERSY
A panel recommended that New York State's Legislature consider letting 22 campuses in the State University of New York system set differing rates: A36

  • THE U.S. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT backed off from a plan to ease rules on the TRIO programs for disadvantaged students: A33

  • AUGSBURG COLLEGE said it would give $5,000-a-year scholarships to AmeriCorps volunteers who meet its entrance requirements: A33

  • A SCIENTIST LOST a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services, even though the department's misconduct charges against him were never proved: A35

  • THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES of Health accused a scientist of violating a ban on embryo research when he used N.I.H. resources in experiments at a fertility clinic: A35

  • AN INDIANA UNIVERSITY STUDY involving homeless people faces scrutiny after a newspaper reported that the subjects' informed consent had not been obtained: A35

  • SOUTH CAROLINA OFFICIALS have developed a list of criteria by which the performance of the state's public colleges will be judged and, in turn, their state funds allotted: A36

  • A TRADE SCHOOL in New York has sued the state for disallowing $4.8-million in tuition grants: A36

MONEY & MANAGEMENT

A QUESTION OF CONTROL
Many officials at Macalester College are frustrated by an unchangeable arrangement in which the college has only limited authority over a huge gift of Reader's Digest stock: A37

PROBLEMS WITH "DUAL DISCOUNTING"
Campus bookstores are investigating whether publishers are charging them more for books than the big national chains: A39

CAPITALIZING ON AN OPPORTUNITY
Hundreds of business schools have opened in Eastern Europe in recent years, but some care more about generating profits than they do about teaching: A47

  • THE TOP FUND RAISER at Campbellsville University is a volunteer, which saves the college some money: A37

  • THE UNUSUAL GIFT of 1949 Rolls Royce has put Cape Fear Community College in the driver's seat: A37

  • VARTAN GREGORIAN, the president of Brown University, will become the head of the Carnegie Corporation of New York: A38

  • A NEW ACCREDITING GROUP, the American Academy for Liberal Education, has certified its first institution -- the University of Dallas: A8

  • A DONOR HAS REFUSED to give any more money to the University of Scranton unless a textbook with a chapter on abortion is dropped from a medical-ethics course: A8

  • A SIX-ALARM BLAZE caused extensive damage to a gymnasium at Western Maryland College: A8

STUDENTS

PICKING COLLEGES
An annual survey of freshmen found that financial considerations are playing more of a role than ever before in their lives: A41

VINDICATION FOR A FORMER STUDENT
A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that St. Augustine's College had mistreated a woman after she testified against the college in a lawsuit over racial discrimination: A44

CONTROVERSY OVER A CLINTON PLAN
Education leaders worry that the neediest students will not be helped by the President's proposals to make college more affordable through tax breaks: A33

TROUBLE BREWS IN TEXAS
A state remedial-education program has been criticized by lawmakers who claim that its academic-skills test is racially biased: A35

  • HIGH-SCHOOL GUIDANCE counselors are taking advantage of regional bus tours that visit 10 to 15 top colleges in six days: A41

  • STUDENTS ARE WATCHING TELEVISION to study human behavior for a research project at the University of Minnesota: A41

  • AN ARCHERY SEMINAR is helping students who play stringed instruments to hone their performance techniques: A8

  • A "UNITY" QUILT was displayed by fraternities at a gathering to promote multiculturalism at Eastern Illinois University that followed an incident during homecoming: A8

ATHLETICS

PRINCIPLE VS. PRAGMATISM
The Patriot League has voted to allow members to offer basketball scholarships, ending a policy of awarding aid based only on economic need: A45

CHARGE OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
A class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of two black students challenges the legality of eligibility standards used by the National Collegiate Athletic Association: A46

  • THE PRESIDENT of the National Association of Basketball Coaches bemoaned the insecurity of his profession: A45

  • THE MEN'S-BASKETBALL TEAM at Rutgers University at Camden ended a 117-game losing streak last week: A45

OPINION & LETTERS

A SENSE OF PLACE
The study of literature risks being overly simplistic if it ignores the regional context in which the texts were originally written, writes the novelist Jay Parini, a professor of English at Middlebury College: A60

BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS
If left unchecked, the introduction of plants and animals into regions where they do not naturally occur can bring lasting harm to the planet, says Peter M. Vitousek, a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University: B4

THE DECLINE OF PARTY LOYALTY
Electoral trends in other countries show that political scientists are wrong if they think that American voters are engaged in a deliberate effort to create a divided government, writes Mark N. Frankel, a professor of political science at the University of Houston: B7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

THE ARTS

NOTES FROM ACADEME
Aptullah Kuran, a professor at the University of the Bosphorus, is trying to give Sinan ibn Abdulmennan, considered by many to have been Turkey's greatest architect ever, the scholarly recognition he deserves: B2

WHEN EAST MEETS WEST
At Towson State University, the sculptor Hou Rong commingles his Chinese sensibilities with modern abstract art: B8

PICTURING VIETNAM
The photographs in Mitch Epstein's new book capture a country ravaged by war but redeemed by the promise of its people: B88

  • AN ARCHERY SEMINAR is helping students who play stringed instruments to hone their performance techniques: A8

  • THE TUBA ENSEMBLE at Tennessee Technological University is celebrating its 30th anniversary: A10
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