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INTERNATIONAL
A REPUTATION GROWS IN BRITAIN
Under the leadership of a vice-chancellor from the United
States, the University of Bath is establishing itself as one of
the country's finest research institutions: A47
- The national assessments of research at British
universities have become more prestigious -- and more
controversial: A48
RESISTANCE IN SLOVAKIA
Scholars are vehemently opposing legislation that would expand
the power that a nationalistic cultural organization has over
aspects of education in the country: A49
CONCERN IN AUSTRALIA
Academics are alarmed by the backgrounds and political agendas
of those named to a special government committee to study
higher education: A49
SKEPTICISM IN FRANCE
Students and professors welcomed proposed changes in financial
aid and curricular requirements but wondered how the government
will pay for them: A50
GOOD NEWS IN CANADA
Under the proposed federal budget, universities would receive
more support for research, and students would get more help to
pay for their education: A50
- IN CHINA, Deng Xiaoping's death prompted a call to free
political prisoners: A47
- IN BRITAIN, key papers of the writer D.H. Lawrence have been
given to the University of Nottingham, his alma mater: A47
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
REVEALING SOVIET SECRETS
Jonathan Brent, a top editor at Yale University Press, is
spearheading a book project that is opening a window onto more
than 70 years of Communist history: A15
- The popular press has widely praised Yale's "Annals of
Communism" series, but left-wing scholars say it has an
accusatory tone and is based on thin evidence: A18
RESEARCH ON NON-PROLIFERATION
The breakup of the Soviet Union has led to new nuclear threats.
Scholars concentrate on them in a center at the Monterey
Institute of International Studies: A10
EXPLOSIVE MISTLETOE
Information about the decline of the unusual plant in New
Zealand has provided new insights into ecological and
evolutionary relationships: A19
IRISH SCRIPTURE
The celebrated Book of Kells, housed at Trinity College in
Dublin, tells the stories of the Gospels, one mysterious
drawing at a time: B2
- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY has indefinitely suspended a project to
publish the papers of John Jay for financial reasons: A12
- KEY PAPERS of the writer D.H. Lawrence have been given to
the University of Nottingham, his alma mater: A47
- PEOPLE WHO ATTENDED the annual meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science got a preview of
an electronic peer-review system developed by a scholar: A28
- HOT TYPE: A20
- 80 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A21-23
- THE NATIONAL ACADEMY of Sciences has honored 18 scholars
with awards: A52
THE FACULTY
MEASURING PRODUCTIVITY
Faculty leaders in the State University of New York and
California State University systems issued a joint endorsement
of post-tenure reviews but defended professors and questioned
their critics: A12
MIND, BRAIN, AND BEHAVIOR
A new interdisciplinary program at Harvard University, unusual
in its scope, is changing the way many professors teach and
conduct research: A12
FAITH AND HIGHER EDUCATION
Many scholars say evangelical colleges must do more to combat
anti-intellectualism, which they say has hampered the religious
movement: A14
- THE WHITEWATER PROSECUTOR Kenneth W. Starr has said he will
become dean of Pepperdine University's law school: A12
- A NOBEL-LAUREATE scientist at the National Institutes of
Health, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, has pleaded guilty to
charges of child abuse: A8
- TWO FORMER PROFESSORS at the Medical College of Georgia have
been accused of taking $10-million intended for research: A8
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
SELLING ADMISSIONS ESSAYS
A new company on the Internet is buying and selling the
personal statements written by successful applicants to
colleges and professional schools: A25
A JAM ON THE INTERNET
When World-Wide Web pages created by students become too
popular, campus networks often can't handle the surge in
demand: A26
REGULATING THE INTERNET
Student and faculty groups have filed briefs with the Supreme
Court, urging it to strike down a law that many in higher
education say infringes upon academic freedom: A28
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
TRADING PLACES
Fans of Omer Waddles wonder why the former Congressional aide
has accepted a job with an association of for-profit vocational
schools: A37
OVERSEEING THE NIH
Senator William Frist, Republican of Tennessee, brings an
anti-abortion stance and background as a medical doctor to the
chairmanship of the Senate panel that authorizes
biomedical-research programs: A38
SCRUTINY BY THE IRS
The Internal Revenue Service is seeking to tax the income that
colleges take in from alumni through travel programs, athletics
facilities, and "vanity" e-mail accounts: A39
REDUCING THE DOCTOR GLUT
Under a pilot program, the federal government will pay
hospitals in New York not to train new medical residents: A40
A KEY PART OF SCHOOL REFORM
State and federal officials are taking a close look at
teacher-training programs and are planning stricter ways to
measure their quality: A41
- AN ETHICS GROUP in Nevada is weighing whether a professor at
the University of Nevada at Reno can also be a regent: A37
- GOVERNOR GEORGE ALLEN of Virginia has kept control of
appointments to the state's higher-education council: A37
- THE U.S. SUPREME COURT has agreed to hear a case involving
the misuse of federal student-aid funds: A41
- STATE COLLEGES' IMMUNITY from lawsuits in federal courts was
strengthened by a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court: A41
- THE U.S. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT plans to hold a forum on how
students can be better prepared for college: A41
- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS at Austin settled an
affirmative-action lawsuit that had been filed in the wake
of the appeals court's decision in the Hopwood case: A42
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
KNOWING WHEN TO SHUT DOWN
The Whitaker Foundation, which supports research in biomedical
engineering, plans to spend all its money and close shop by
2006: A32
TURNOVER AT ADELPHI
Last week, at its first meeting, the university's new Board of
Trustees fired the institution's controversial president, Peter
Diamandopoulos: A35
MORE MONEY FROM ROYALTIES
A new study has found that universities earned $273.5-million
in 1995, a 12-per-cent increase over 1994: A36
- A table lists the licensing income earned by, and new
patents issued to, 127 universities in the 1995 fiscal
year: A36
SCRUTINY BY THE IRS
The Internal Revenue Service is seeking to tax the income that
colleges take in from alumni through travel programs, athletics
facilities, and "vanity" e-mail accounts: A39
- A BOYCOTT BY A GROUP of Radcliffe College graduates has
denied Harvard University $500,000 in gifts: A32
- THE FOUNDERS OF YAHOO!, the Internet-search service, have
endowed an engineering chair at Stanford University: A32
- A CAR ADVERTISEMENT featuring a business professor and
several students from the University of California at
Berkeley has upset the university's officials and alumni: A8
STUDENTS
CONFIDENTIAL ADMISSIONS DATA
A law student at the University of Miami found himself in a
battle royal over affirmative action and privacy rights when he
learned the test scores and grades of his black classmates: A43
SELLING ADMISSIONS ESSAYS
A new company on the Internet is buying and selling the
personal statements written by successful applicants to
colleges and professional schools: A25
VINDICATION FOR AN ADMINISTRATOR
A federal appeals court has ruled that an official of the State
University of New York at Oneonta was justified in 1992, when
he gave local police a list of black male students: A44
- A STRAIGHT-STUDENT GROUP at Pennsylvania State University is
irate over its inability to gain official recognition: A43
- STUDENT TUTORS at Carleton College are on call for "writing
emergencies": A43
- A FEDERAL JUDGE has dismissed a lawsuit that charged the
State University of New York with violating the Americans
With Disabilities Act for not accommodating a student who
suffers from agoraphobia: A8
- THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER at Brigham Young University has
stopped carrying the work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning
cartoonist: A8
- MINORITY STUDENTS studying architecture at Washington
University have rebuilt a slave cabin that dates from the
late 1830s: A8
- WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of
best-selling books: A44
ATHLETICS
TO THE SUPREME COURT
Brown University has asked the Justices to review and to
reverse a decision in which it was found to have discriminated
against its female athletes: A45
- AN ATHLETE HAS SUED Texas Tech University for fraud,
forgery, and racketeering: A45
- TWO COLLEGES seeking to update their traditional mascots and
logos ran into heavy criticism over their choices: A10
OPINION & LETTERS
JOB SECURITY AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM
The demise of tenure would not destroy academe, writes C. Peter
Magrath, president of the National Association of State
Universities and Land-Grant Colleges: A60
REFLECTIONS ON BLACK HISTORY MONTH
The territorial nature of African-American studies leads to
awkward moments for both black and white scholars, says the
writer David Bradley: B4
AN AUTHOR WITH AN APPETITE
Richard Klein, a professor of Romance languages at Cornell
University, gives a meal-by-meal account of what it took to
promote his new book, Eat Fat, to a general audience: B7
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
A PRESCRIPTION FOR POETRY
Rafael Campo, a professor at Harvard University's medical
school, composes verse to connect with his patients and to come
to terms with his identity as a gay Cuban American: B8
IRISH SCRIPTURE
The celebrated Book of Kells, housed at Trinity College in
Dublin, tells the stories of the Gospels, one mysterious
drawing at a time: B2
YOUTHFUL VISIONS
A collection of photographs by 25 artists who are 25 years old
or younger is on display at Duke University: B80
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