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INTERNATIONAL
AFTER THE WAR IN BOSNIA
The University of Sarajevo is battling to find the money to
rebuild damaged facilities, pay instructors, and buy supplies.
Overcrowding compounds the problems: A59
REVAMPING PALESTINIAN UNIVERSITIES
Looming deficits and declining foreign assistance are forcing
the Ministry of Higher Education to find ways to streamline its
university and college system: A60
SERVICE REQUIREMENT IS MODIFIED
Participants in the National Security Education Program will
have an easier time meeting its service requirement as a result
of another change in federal regulations: A61
HELP FOR BANGLADESHI SCAM VICTIMS
Wichita State University and the surrounding community are
assisting Bangladeshi students who lost their savings in a
get-rich-quick scheme: A61
REPRESENTING THE CONGO
Andre M. Kapanga, an academic opponent of the old regime in
Zaire, is now his renamed country's Ambassador to the United
Nations: A10
BARGAINING OVER TECHNOLOGY
The faculty union at Ontario's York University has won a
promise in its contract that professors will not be required to
use new technology in their classrooms: A28
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
DRUG-POLICY DEBATES
Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and
Substance Abuse knows how to draw attention to its research,
but some experts express reservations about its findings: A15
HUMAN IMPROVEMENTS
Genetic-engineering technology soon could be used to provide
cosmetic enhancements. The question is, Should it?: A17
JUDGING GRANT APPLICATIONS
Scientists have welcomed a plan by the National Institutes of
Health to use five explicit criteria in its peer-review
process: A40
THE DEATH OF THE HUMANITIES?
Defending contemporary literary studies has become a lost
cause, writes Michael Berube, a professor of English and the
director of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: B6
THE FACULTY
WHAT UNIONIZATION BRINGS
As the movement to organize teaching assistants spreads,
graduate students are debating what they gain from collective
bargaining: A12
CHARGE AND COUNTERCHARGE
Texas A&M University says a computer-science professor took
$100,000 of its money. He denies that the money was the
university's and claims discrimination: A14
REPRESENTING THE CONGO
Andre M. Kapanga, an academic opponent of the old regime in
Zaire, is now his renamed country's Ambassador to the United
Nations: A10
INTELLECTUAL LONELINESS
Changes in institutions, in scholarship, and in academic
culture make it more and more difficult to identify a shared
set of values, writes Leroy S. Rouner, director of the
Institute for Philosophy and Religion at Boston University: B4
LOVING THE PROFESSOR
Education, if it's done right, involves an intense affinity
between two human beings, writes Regina Barreca, a professor of
English at the University of Connecticut: B9
- THREE SCIENTISTS HAVE WON Albert Lasker Medical Research
Awards, which bear the nickname "America's Nobels": A12
- WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY has settled sex-bias lawsuits
filed by three education professors, and has acknowledged
that sex discrimination occurred: A14
- SOME COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY professors have asked their
president to step down, citing "an academic setting marked
by fear, intimidation, and retaliation": A14
- A PROFESSOR'S breach-of-contract lawsuit against the
University of Nevada at Reno won him a $400,000 jury award,
but he says he'd rather have his job back, with tenure: A14
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
RETHINKING ACADEMIC JOB DESCRIPTIONS
Faculty members and administrators are wrestling with the
question of how new technology could "unbundle" and upset
well-established professional roles: A26
BARGAINING OVER TECHNOLOGY
The faculty union at Ontario's York University has won a
promise in its contract that professors will not be required to
use new technology in their classrooms: A28
"DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER"
The Association of American Publishers has proposed a new
system to make it easier to get copyright and other information
about on-line materials: A29
LIMITS ON ENCRYPTION
A House of Representatives panel has killed a measure, opposed
by many scientific groups, that would have limited the domestic
sale of encryption software: A30
NOTES FROM ACADEME
A visit to see a replica of the first computer ever built
uncovers an ancient feud between two universities: B2
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
NEW PERFORMANCE STANDARDS?
Public universities will soon be fending off proposals in
Congress to base their eligibility to award federal aid on
their success at retaining and graduating students: A33
- Hans Brisch, chancellor of the Oklahoma State Regents,
has led a campaign to boost retention and graduation
rates on the state's flagship campuses: A34
CHANGES AT LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITIES
In an evolving marketplace, the public institutions'
cooperative-extension services are considering charging user
fees, but they worry about a backlash: A38
PEER-REVIEW REVISIONS
Scientists have welcomed a plan by the National Institutes of
Health to use five explicit criteria in its peer-review
process: A40
LAWMAKERS EYE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced
legislation to revamp the delivery of student aid. They propose
putting a financial-management professional in charge: A41
ENDING THE CARTELS
Political pressures and electronic competition threaten state
systems of higher education, writes Gordon K. Davies, former
director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
and a visiting professor of education at Teachers College of
Columbia University: A68
- A LEGISLATIVE MANEUVER by supporters of the National
Endowment for the Arts in the House of Representatives has
seemed to give the agency a boost in the budget battle: A33
- AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION supporters at the University of Texas
have been offered a dare by a conservative student group: If
you think there are too few minority students and professors
on the campus, let one take your place: A33
- A HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES panel has begun studying a bill
to reauthorize agricultural-research programs: A35
- A SENATE COMMITTEE has approved a measure that would
consolidate federal programs for job training, vocational
education, and adult education: A35
- THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA is being urged to stop using
SAT scores in admissions as a way of fostering diversity
in the absence of affirmative action: A37
- A COALITION of labor unions filed a lawsuit to stop the
merger of hospitals owned by Stanford University and the
University of California at San Francisco: A42
- ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY has been routing state funds to
troubled Selma University, a private institution that filed
for bankruptcy in May: A42
- NEW BILLS IN CONGRESS; new federal regulations: A37
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
COURTING NEW DONORS
The Hispanic population of the United States is growing larger
and wealthier, and colleges are tailoring their fund-raising
efforts accordingly: A43
TOP FUND RAISER FORCED OUT
The interim president of the University of Texas at Austin has
made the vice-president for development resign, possibly over
the fund raiser's proposed "gift tax": A47
- A $2-MILLION DONATION from the son of a former slave will
aid minority recruitment at the University of Southern
California's Law Center: A43
- THE RECALL of a popular diet drug will trim patent royalties
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by as much as
$500,000 this year: A43
- SUE BENNETT COLLEGE lost its accreditation, following an
unsuccessful appeal to a regional accrediting agency: A46
- THE MASSACHUSETTS public-utility board has been ordered to
review an electric company's effort to collect compensatory
payments from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: A46
- A COALITION of labor unions filed a lawsuit to stop the
merger of hospitals owned by Stanford University and the
University of California at San Francisco: A42
- PRINCETON REVIEW has settled a lawsuit brought by the
organization that sponsors the admissions test for
graduate-business schools: A8
- THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has joined a lawsuit charging
Brewton-Parker College with financial-aid fraud: A10
- DEVELOPMENTS in four capital campaigns are reported in this
issue of The Chronicle: A46
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A47
STUDENTS
TUITION IS UP 5%
A survey by the College Board has found that colleges increased
their charges for 1997-98 at roughly the same rate as they did
the previous year: A49
- Tuition and fees at 3,000 colleges and universities are
available on the College Board's World-Wide Web site:
A50-55
LOVING THE PROFESSOR
Education, if it's done right, involves an intense affinity
between two human beings, writes Regina Barreca, a professor of
English at the University of Connecticut: B9
- STUDENTS at the South Texas College of Law are being urged
by their president to dress and act like professionals: A49
- DUKE UNIVERSITY'S PRESIDENT turned down a request by
students to cancel classes so they could hold an open forum
on race relations: A49
- A CAMPUS POLICE OFFICER at the University of Michigan shot
and killed a man while he was in the act of stabbing a
female student to death: A8
- THE AUBURN UNIVERSITY chapter of the Alpha Psi fraternity is
suing the institution to retain its all-male status: A10
- A PORTRAIT of a pioneering female educator has been stolen
from the women's center at Brown University: A8
- VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE students started their fall term
with the mud-caked games of the "Outrageous Olympics": A8
ATHLETICS
TOUGH TIMES FOR I-AA FOOTBALL
The dominance of major athletics conferences has left smaller
programs struggling to finance their teams and build fan
support: A57
OPINION & LETTERS
ENDING THE CARTELS
Political pressures and electronic competition threaten state
systems of higher education, argues Gordon K. Davies, a former
director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia,
and a visiting professor of education at Teachers College of
Columbia University: A68
INTELLECTUAL LONELINESS
Changes in institutions, in scholarship, and in academic
culture make it more and more difficult to identify a shared
set of values, says Leroy S. Rouner, director of the Institute
for Philosophy and Religion at Boston University: B4
THE DEATH OF THE HUMANITIES?
Defending contemporary literary studies has become a lost
cause, says Michael Berube, a professor of English and the
director of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: B6
A TRUE WASTELAND
The rich tapestry of Hispanic America is almost invisible on
commercial, English-language television in the United States,
says Paul Espinosa, an independent film producer: B7
LOVING THE PROFESSOR
Education, if it's done right, involves an intense affinity
between two human beings, says Regina Barreca, a professor of
English at the University of Connecticut: B9
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
SINGULAR MODERNITY
A new book marks the opening of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, in
Santa Fe, N.M.: B84
- POETRY AND SKETCHES by e.e. cummings when he was a boy have
been donated to the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill: A10
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE: A62-67
"BULLETIN BOARD": 72 PAGES OF JOB OPENINGS
DETAILS OF MORE THAN 1,170 AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching
and research positions in higher education, administrative
and executive jobs, and openings outside academe: B12-83
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