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INTERNATIONAL
BALANCING THE BOOKS IN CANADA
Universities facing cuts in government support are becoming
more entrepreneurial as they look for ways to bring in dollars
on their own: A47
ANGER IN MEXICO
Young academics who received what they thought were fellowships
are protesting a government agency's demand that they pay back
the funds -- with interest: A48
UNCERTAINTY IN HONG KONG
Students seem more preoccupied with preparing for their final
examinations than with the British colony's impending return to
Chinese control: A49
CHANGE FOR U.S. EXCHANGES
President Clinton has agreed to merge the United States
Information Agency, which sponsors the Fulbright program and
other exchanges, into the State Department: A50
- KUWAIT'S TOP-RANKING FEMALE official cited education, in a
speech at Boston's Suffolk University, as the key to lifting
women in the Arab world from their second-class status: A47
- IN THE UNITED STATES, the Council on International
Educational Exchange has organized a program to send college
graduates to teach English in China: A47
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
THE DECLINE OF THE REEFS
Scientists are working to document environmental problems that
endanger coral reefs, ecosystems that are key to an abundance
of plant and animal species: A12
"FATHERS OF THE CHURCH"
A new publishing project will feature 27 volumes of important,
early commentaries on the Christian Bible, many of them unknown
to modern scholars: A13
- THE INSTITUTE OF HUMAN ORIGINS is preparing to move from
Berkeley, Cal., to Arizona State University: A10
- RESEARCHERS AT THE UNIVERSITY of Michigan have found that
more Americans are marrying out of their racial groups than
ever before: A14
- SCIENTISTS BELIEVE that specific patterns of electrical
bursts may help developing animals' brains to build the
circuits for good vision: A14
- NEW MEASUREMENTS of the universe, published in Physical
Review Letters, suggest that it has an "up" and a "down":
A15
- DOZENS OF ANIMAL-RIGHTS activists were arrested for
vandalizing a research building at the University of
California at Davis: A9
- HOT TYPE: A15
- 88 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A16-18
- 164 SCHOLARS have been honored with fellowships by the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; all of them are listed
in this issue of The Chronicle: A53-55
THE FACULTY
CHANGES AT CARNEGIE
Under its new president, Lee S. Shulman, the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching will continue to
work on issues in teaching, but from a new location and with
less emphasis on public policy: A10
A SENATE IS NO MORE
The Board of Trustees of Francis Marion University has
eliminated the faculty's governing body and created a panel to
come up with a replacement: A11
RETURNING TO ACADEMIC MEDICINE
David A. Kessler, who found himself in the middle of one
controversy after another as head of the Food and Drug
Administration, is moving to Yale to become dean its medical
school: A9
- THE CHANCELLOR OF LOUISIANA State University's law school
resigned after it was revealed that he had been arrested
last year for marijuana possession: A8
- YALE UNIVERSITY IS WOOING Drew Gilpin Faust and Brenda
Stevenson, both historians of the American South: A10
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
PLAYING CATCH-UP IN CALIFORNIA
Despite the state's reputation for high technology, many of its
community colleges have fallen behind in meeting the needs of
business in their use of computing programs: A27
TEACHING LANGUAGE WITH NEW TOOLS
Multimedia computer programs offer an opportunity for faculty
members to tailor exercises to students' interests and skill
levels: A28
"VARIATIONS"
By digitizing more than 1,300 pieces of music, Indiana
University's music library has eliminated the long lines of
students who used to wait to borrow cassette recordings of
pieces they had been assigned to listen to: A29
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
RULING ON DESEGREGATION
A federal appeals court has found that colleges in Mississippi
perpetuate bias by awarding millions of dollars in financial
aid based on standardized test scores: A32
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- The full text of the decision by the appeals court in the
desegregation case: A33
NEH LOSES ITS CHIEF
Sheldon Hackney, the chairman of the National Endowment for the
Humanities, is resigning to return to the University of
Pennsylvania and teach history: A34
COURTING THE HOLDOUTS
While many experts praise Massachusetts's prepaid-tuition
program, state officials are unhappy because a few elite
colleges have refused to join: A36
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- State legislatures around the country are considering
programs that would help families pay for college
educations: A37
IDAHO REJECTS A STUDY OF GAY LIFE
The state's Board of Education, fearful of a backlash from
taxpayers, has voted to block support for a professor's
research project: A37
PROBING THE COST OF COLLEGE
Representative Howard P. (Buck) McKeon, a Republican who heads
a key subcommittee in the House, wants to create a commission
to study tuition increases and to seek ways of making college
more affordable: A37
- IN AN ADVERTISEMENT in The New York Times, 62 university
presidents endorsed the continued use of race in admissions
decisions: A32
- A POLL SPONSORED by the Ford Foundation's Campus Diversity
Initiative has revealed the contradictory views many people
hold of diversity in higher education: A32
- A PUBLIC-INTEREST GROUP has charged that AIDS experiments
conducted in the Third World by scientists from American
universities were unethical: A38
- REPUBLICAN SENATORS are questioning the need for service
requirements in President Clinton's College Work-Study
Program: A38
- THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has approved a 7-per-cent
increase in the spending authorized for the National Science
Foundation for 1998: A38
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
FEW DIVESTMENTS OF TOBACCO STOCKS
The prospect of a settlement of lawsuits against cigarette
companies has pushed up the value of their stock, producing
gains for many college endowments: A39
- The University of Alabama's Board of Trustees has voted
to withdraw from a lawsuit filed against a company that
manufactures cigarettes: A40
SUPPORT FOR AREA STUDIES
The Ford Foundation, as part of a general reorganization of its
grant-making activities, has announced several new programs for
colleges and universities: A40
- RICHARD D. SEMMLER, a mathematics professor at Northern
Virginia Community College, has gotten more involved than
most faculty members do in raising funds: A39
- KANSAS NEWMAN COLLEGE will auction golf balls autographed by
Tiger Woods, winner of the 1997 Masters Golf Tournament: A39
- A LAWSUIT over investment losses by Morehouse College
against a money-management company has been thrown out: A40
- WAYNE STATE COLLEGE has returned $50,000 to the State Farm
Foundation after finding that an alumnus abused a
matching-gift program: A40
- THREE UNIVERSITIES in North Dakota have called off classes
for the rest of the semester due to severe flooding in the
eastern part of the state: A8
STUDENTS
EASING THE TRANSFER PROCESS
Smith College is among a small number of selective institutions
that are stepping up efforts to recruit students from community
colleges: A43
AN ALTERNATIVE TO U.S. NEWS
Stanford University has invited colleges to join it in posting
statistics and other information on World-Wide Web sites so
that applicants need not rely on the magazine's controversial
guide: A44
- STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY of Pennsylvania's Wharton School
have challenged a policy that releases to recruiters the
grades of only those students who make the dean's list: A43
- STUDENTS AT WAKE FOREST University are upset over a grading
system, to start in 1998, that uses pluses and minuses: A43
- STUDENTS AT MOUNT HOLYOKE College staged a second sit-in to
protest policies they believe are unfair to minority
students and members of certain faiths: A8
- AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, protesters last week
demanded that gay and lesbian students be included in the
institution's non-discrimination policy: A8
- "FREAKNIK," AN ANNUAL STREET party in Atlanta attended by
black students from around the country, was less boisterous
than in years past: A9
- STUDENTS AT THE NEW SCHOOL for Social Research have staged a
hunger strike to protest the denial of a tenured post to a
visiting professor, among other issues: A9
- SOME BLACK LAW STUDENTS at Gonzaga University have received
racist telephone calls and letters in the past month: A9
- WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of
best-selling books: A44
ATHLETICS
NO SUPREME COURT REVIEW OF TITLE IX
The Justices rejected an appeal by Brown University and, in so
doing, handed a major victory to female athletes across the
country: A45
- SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL, a Kentucky Republican, has played a
key role in the investigation of the College Bowl Alliance
by the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel: A45
- WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY has eliminated a program in
which female students acted as escorts for football recruits
who were visiting the campus: A45
- A PROFESSOR AT NORTHEAST Mississippi Community College has
sued the institution, alleging she was pressured to change a
star athlete's grade: A46
- THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE Athletic Association has narrowed
its search for a new headquarters to Indianapolis and
greater Kansas City: A46
- A BASKETBALL PLAYER at California State University at Fresno
has sued The Fresno Bee for libel over a story about
point-shaving: A46
- THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES of Miami University of Ohio has voted
to change the nickname of its sports team from "Redskins" to
"RedHawks": A9
OPINION & LETTERS
ON-LINE DEMOCRACY
Electronic voting on major legislative issues could create true
self-government, argues Mark Edmundson, a professor of English
at the University of Virginia: A60
LOCAL AND GLOBAL IDENTITIES
Americans and Europeans need a dual set of loyalties, to their
own traditions and to international culture, writes Richard
Pells, a professor of history at the University of Texas at
Austin: B4
THE COMPANY WE KEEP
Changing mores concerning faculty-student conduct should not
stand in the way of the beer-and-pizza ritual, says Lucia
Perillo, a professor of English at Southern Illinois University
at Carbondale: B6
A RIDICULOUS ORDEAL
John A. Bogdanski, a professor of law at Lewis and Clark Law
School, says the Internal Revenue Service has gone overboard in
what it requires of foreign students: B7
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
A FITTING HOME
Hampton University, the first institution to buy
African-American art, now has room to display its vast
collection: B8
NOTES FROM ACADEME
Vivian Reed, a voice professor at the Berklee College of Music,
teaches the many tricks of reaching an audience with a song: B2
"PICTURING CHILDHOOD"
Illustrations, toys, and games related to children's literature
are on display at the University of California at Los Angeles
through June 29: B60
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