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INTERNATIONAL
QUALITY ASSURANCE IN ARGENTINA
As graduate programs proliferate, educators are seeking to
create a system that will evaluate the new programs' academic
rigor: A35
FUTURE OF THE FULBRIGHTS
An independent group's comprehensive report on the popular
exchange program calls for changes that alarm educators: A36
- PROFESSORS FROM THE UNIVERSITY of Pittsburgh worked in
Beijing with instructors from China's education commission
to help train academic leaders for the future: A35
- SMITH COLLEGE held a summer institute for high-school girls
from foreign countries to increase the college's profile
overseas and to attract international students: A35
- KUWAIT UNIVERSITY, the only university in that country, is
looking for outside support to keep up with its phenomenal
growth: A35
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
UNIVERSAL DESIGN
A new book by Lee Smolin, a Pennsylvania State University
physicist, offers his theory that the evolution of life was
neither an accident nor the product of divine creation: A13
THE WRITINGS OF NIETZSCHE
A planned 20-volume series from Stanford University Press will
provide new English translations of the German philosopher's
work. In many cases, the translations will be the first ever
and may lead to new interpretations of his ideas: A14
"WOMAN THE HUNTER"
A new book by Mary Zeiss Stange, a professor of religion and
women's studies at Skidmore College, mixes personal stories
about bagging game with a critique of ecofeminist theory: A9
- A SPECIAL ISSUE of the journal Feminist Economics
focuses on the use of sociological and ethnographic
approaches to enliven the stolid field of economics: A10
- BIOLOGISTS AT YALE University have succeeded for the first
time in restoring the sensitivity of some bacteria to two
common antibiotics to which they had become resistant: A15
- RESEARCHERS FROM NEW YORK University and York University in
Toronto have demonstrated that the tendency of a given
fruit fly to roam or not is determined by a single gene: A15
- PEOPLE ARE OFTEN WILLING to take actions that hurt
themselves but that help society, says a psychologist at the
University of Pennsylvania: A15
- AN INTERNATIONAL TEAM of scientists has determined the
entire genetic sequence of the bacterium responsible for
peptic ulcers: A15
- HOT TYPE: A18
- Toby Miller, a professor of cinema studies at New York
University, has been chosen to co-edit Social Text.
He has been the editor of the Journal of Sport & Social
Issues for the last year.
- A professor of English at Miami University in Ohio,
Sherrie A. Inness, is working on several books that
deal with the "hot" topic of girls' culture.
- 88 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A16-18
- Nota Bene: Creating the Cold War University: The
Transformation of Stanford, by Rebecca S. Lowen, a
visiting scholar in history at the University of
California at San Diego. The book is published by the
University of California Press.
- 71 SCHOLARS have been honored with awards; all of them are
listed in this issue of The Chronicle: A39-40
- The American Council on Education has named 34 academics
to its 1997-98 fellows program.
- The Newberry Library has announced the names of 37
research fellows for 1997-98.
THE FACULTY
SUMMERTIME SCHOLARS
For many professors at liberal-arts colleges, the summer is the
only time they can focus on long-term research projects: A10
"FIRE-AT-WILL U."?
Critics charge that a new, tenure-less campus of the University
of Arizona has left its faculty members with little job
protection: A12
"WOMAN THE HUNTER"
A new book by Mary Zeiss Stange, a professor of religion and
women's studies at Skidmore College, mixes personal stories
about bagging game with a critique of ecofeminist theory: A9
- A CHEMIST AT THE UNIVERSITY of Dayton has received a $20,000
grant for his son's science project on recycling used motor
oil: A10
- THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN has paid $1.67-million to a
former researcher who claimed that her work had been stolen
and then used to secure a government grant: A9
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
A CROSS-COUNTRY JOURNEY
Ten Vanderbilt University students recently spent five weeks
visiting schools with large American Indian populations and
showing their teachers and students around the Internet: A19
AMUSING, BUT FAKE
A commencement speech that is circulating on the Internet and
is described as a Kurt Vonnegut address at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology is nothing of the sort: A20
ON-LINE FINANCIAL AID
The U.S. Education Department has placed its standard
application form for aid on the World-Wide Web, but many
students are unable to reach it: A26
WHAT THE WEB HAS WROUGHT
David Rothenberg, an associate professor of philosophy at the
New Jersey Institute of Technology, writes that students who
use the Internet in their research produce poorly written
papers that display little originality: A44
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
NUMBERS GAME
Trying to predict college enrollments is more complicated than
it used to be -- some recent projections have turned out to be
unreliable -- but states still must figure out ways to plan for
the future needs of higher education: A23
SEEKING CAMPAIGN FUNDS
Alabama's Lieutenant Governor asked a public college's lobbyist
for a contribution just a few weeks before a special
legislative session on higher-education spending: A24
NEW WAYS IN AGRICULTURE RESEARCH
As debate over the Farm Bill proceeds, Congress now appears
ready to be more generous with money and less stringent with
rules than college lobbyists had feared: A25
ON-LINE FINANCIAL AID
The U.S. Education Department has placed its standard
application form for aid on the World-Wide Web, but many
students are unable to reach it: A26
- SHAREHOLDERS at Sallie Mae voted to privatize the
government-sponsored enterprise and to allow a group of
disgruntled shareholders and former executives to lead the
new company: A23
- MANY STATE FINANCIAL OFFICERS appear to have embraced the
idea of holding public colleges financially accountable for
their performance, according to a new study: A23
- A KANSAS MAN has been arrested on federal charges of
defrauding the Education Department by falsifying financial
information on hundreds of Pell Grant applications: A27
- PRESIDENT CLINTON has announced that 1,600 volunteer-minded
high-school students will receive up to $1,000 each this
year under the National Service Scholars Program: A27
- THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE in the House of Representatives
has rejected a proposal to require all researchers who
receive federal funds to make their data available to the
public: A27
- A HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES panel approved a bill that would
bar the U.S. government from using affirmative action: A27
- THE CHAIRMAN of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education
has proposed eliminating tuition and fees at the state's 15
community colleges: A28
- THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE passed a bill to help students in
the "workfare" program get assigned to jobs on or near
their campuses: A28
- LAWYERS FOR THE PLAINTIFFS in a desegregation lawsuit
against the University System of Georgia have suggested
banning affirmative action and merging a public black
college with a predominantly white counterpart: A28
- DIVORCED PARENTS can be ordered to pay their children's
college tuition, the Iowa Court of Appeals has ruled: A28
- STATUS OF PENDING FEDERAL LEGISLATION: A27
- NEW BILLS IN CONGRESS: A28
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
SHIFTS AT THE FORD FOUNDATION
The wealthy and influential grant maker has centralized many of
its operations and is placing more of an emphasis on global
issues: A29
CLOSELY WATCHED DISPUTE
The National Institutes of Health rejected a biotechnology
company's request for a license to use a cancer-fighting
technology that was patented and owned by the Johns Hopkins
University: A30
DUAL DISCOUNTING
An association of college stores has sued three academic
publishers over their practice of charging one price for orders
placed by campus bookstores and another for orders from retail
bookstores: A31
- THE ALFRED P. SLOAN Foundation has given nearly $800,000 to
four film schools to encourage students to create compelling
and accurate movies about science and scientists: A29
- THE HOOD MUSEUM at Dartmouth College has received a gift of
121 European artworks by old masters: A29
- THE SIERRA CLUB has called on Manuel T. Pacheco, the new
president of the University of Missouri system, to resign
from the Board of Directors of a mining company: A32
- NINE COLLEGES have announced or completed fund-raising
campaigns: A32
- OFFICIALS AT COLORADO State University say that the damage
toll from a flash flood that struck the campus last month
could reach $135-million: A8
- A MONTH AFTER the chief financial officer of Mount Ida
College was indicted for stealing from the institution, its
president has come under scrutiny for the generous benefits
he enjoyed: A9
- AFTER THE BUDGET for a research orchard at the University of
Massachusetts was cut, professors opened a roadside produce
stand to earn money to help cover expenses: A9
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A32
STUDENTS
LITMUS TEST AT UCLA?
In a federal lawsuit, a student charges that the university
denied him a tutoring job because he expressed some doubts
about affirmative action: A33
- IN AN EFFORT to combat plummeting minority enrollment in
Texas and California law schools, the American Bar
Association is studying proposals to de-emphasize the role
that standardized-test scores play in admissions: A33
- A STUDY HAS FOUND that high scores on the Graduate Record
Examination do not necessarily predict success in the field
of psychology: A33
- STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY of North Dakota attended a
special commencement after spring floods forced the
university to shut down before the term was due to end: A8
- DESIGN STUDENTS at Kean College of New Jersey have created a
chart to help medical patients who have trouble speaking
English or who cannot talk at all to communicate: A8
- AN INVESTIGATION into a cheating scandal on a key medical
examination caused the National Board of Medical Examiners
to temporarily withhold the test scores of more than 20,000
medical students: A8
ATHLETICS
- GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY has been put on probation for two
years by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for
violations in its football and basketball programs: A34
- THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE Athletic Association may relax a
regulation that discourages institutions in Division I-A
from padding their football schedules with games against
teams in Division I-AA: A34
OPINION & LETTERS
WHAT THE WEB HAS WROUGHT
David Rothenberg, an associate professor of philosophy at the
New Jersey Institute of Technology, writes that students who
use the Internet in their research produce poorly written
papers that display little originality: A44
A METAPHOR DESTROYED
Put romantic love at the center of a novel today, says Vivian
Gornick, a professor of English at the University of Arizona,
and who will believe that its pursuit will lead the characters
to self-understanding?: B4
BAKU DIARY
Nicholas Daniloff, director of the School of Journalism at
Northeastern University, taught the principles of American
democracy and a free press to students in Azerbaijan, which is
trying to remake itself as a Western state: B6
A CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF HANDWRITING
Tamara Plakins Thornton, an associate professor of history at
the State University of New York at Buffalo, says studying
penmanship manuals and similar materials reveals a lot about
the history of the self: B7
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The students who are unwilling to make moral judgments: B3
Humanity's "dark side" and monotheism: B10
Race and gender in the study of history: B11
The role of trustees and presidents: B12
More generalists in English studies: B12
Responsibility for West Bank killings: B12
Hollywood meets the ivory tower: B12
Tax bill favors private colleges: B13
Scientist's lawsuit against Pittsburgh: B13
Residency programs at Irvine: B13
THE ARTS
FORGOTTEN HISTORY
William E. Williams, a professor at Haverford College, is using
photography to tell the stories of black soldiers in the
American Civil War: B8
A PASSION FOR ART
Whitney Snow Stoddard, who inspired generations of Williams
College students in art history, continues to teach people how
to see: B2
THE FABRIC OF THE COSMOS
Harry N. Abrams Inc. has published a book that examines the
role of weaving in Maya culture: B60
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE: PAGES A37-43
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