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REFORMING RUSSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION
Experts say colleges are becoming more diverse as institutions
try to meet the demand for new programs while government funds
are limited: A43
ATTACKING JAPANESE INSULARITY
A book by an American scholar says the country denies
opportunities to foreign professionals in education,
journalism, and law: A45
THE AUSTRALIAN SYSTEM
A report proposes a number of far-reaching changes, some of
them controversial, to reshape higher education for the next
century: A46
- NATIVE SCOTS STUDENTS will get a special government discount
on tuition at Scottish universities: A43
- AN AMERICAN COLLEGE and a Venezuelan university have formed
a partnership to create a human-rights center: A43
DID KING DAVID EXIST?
Scholars in Europe, Israel, and the United States are engaged
in an increasingly bitter debate over the historical
credibility of parts of the Bible: A12
SCHOLARLY WARFARE, ON LINE
The Internet has played an integral role in a dispute between
two scientists that has led to accusations of defamation and
demands to shut down a Web site: A14
FEARS FOR IRISH STUDIES
Not only is the postcolonial approach ill-suited, it sacrifices
literary understanding on the altar of politics, says Denis
Donoghue, who teaches English and American letters at New York
University: B4
CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY
Fifteen leading scholars report on the research projects they
are working on now: B7
MORE MINORITY PH.D.'S
A survey by the National Research Council found a record total
in 1996, part of an overall rise in doctorates earned in the
United States: A10
CONTROLLING TELEVISION VIEWING
An engineer at Simon Fraser University created the electronic
component known as the V-chip: A9
TRADITIONAL SICILIAN FOLKLORE
A professor of the history of folklore at the University of
Palermo studies the music, magical beliefs, and other
traditions of her native Sicily: B2
- RESEARCHERS AT BRITAIN'S University of Leicester found that
in-store background music can influence what shoppers
purchase: A10
- THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS and Space Administration has
decided to launch a spacecraft that will include instruments
built at Cornell University: A10
- A YALE UNIVERSITY committee that reconsidered the historian Diane Kunz's
bid for tenure has turned her down again: A8
- AN ANONYMOUS ANTI-SEMITIC essay recently received by faculty
members at the University of Rochester was mailed to people
on at least six other campuses: A8
- THE CRIME-PREVENTION coordinator at Arizona State University
was arrested on charges involving a campus burglary: A9
- PEER REVIEW: A47
- Microsoft Corporation has recruited Christian Borgs and
Jennifer Tour Chayes from two of the country's top
mathematics programs.
- David B. Givens, formerly of the American
Anthropological Association, has founded a center to study
non-verbal behavior.
- Moving on.
"MILLENNIUM BUG"
The year 2000 is coming up fast, and universities are
struggling to make sure that their computer systems can switch
centuries smoothly: A21
HIGH-TECH ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Graduate students at the Georgia Institute of Technology are
learning to create and analyze multimedia documents: A22
PROMOTING COMPUTER-ENHANCED TEACHING
A technology official at the University of North Carolina is
leaving his post and taking many of his former staffers to a
new organization: A23
LIMITING INTERNET ACCESS
Wayne State University has infuriated students and faculty
members with a new policy barring the use of its computer
systems for non-university purposes: A23
SCHOLARLY WARFARE, ON LINE
The Internet has played an integral role in a dispute between
two scientists that has led to accusations of defamation and
demands to shut down a Web site: A14
CONTROLLING TELEVISION VIEWING
An engineer at Simon Fraser University created the electronic
component known as the V-chip: A9
A CONGRESSIONAL ABOUT-FACE
A new law eases limits, set in 1992, on how students who are
financially independent of their parents can qualify for Pell
Grants: A26
PAYING OFF DEBT
The Education Department announced the fifth consecutive
decline in the default rate on student loans: A28
CONTROVERSIAL APPOINTEE WITHDRAWS
Susan J. Blumenthal has decided not to accept a position as the
first White House senior adviser on women's health: A29
FUTURE REGULATIONS
Federal agencies have released plans for the rules they will
work on over the next six months that will affect students and
faculty members: A30
NO LONGER A GOOD INVESTMENT?
Financial experts warn that states' prepaid-tuition programs,
once seen as a bargain for families, offer less value in an era
of small tuition increases: A32
RECRUITING AMERICAN INDIANS
The Iowa Board of Regents extended in-state tuition rates to
members of tribes that once resided in the state: A34
- WILLIAM R. FERRIS, JR., an anthropologist at the University
of Mississippi, was sworn in as the new chairman of the
National Endowment for the Humanities: A26
- QUESTIONS ARE SURFACING as to whose idea it was to have
Shell Oil pay for a reception at a National Science Board
meeting: A26
- DEMOCRATIC SENATOR Robert Torricelli of New Jersey has
proposed a bill to expand colleges' requirements for
reporting hate crimes: A31
- AS PART of a fund-raising inquiry, a House of
Representatives committee is looking at an endowed University of Tennessee professorship named for Vice-President Gore's sister: A31
- VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH University's proposal for a
black-studies major has been rejected by the state's top
higher-education policy-making body: A34
- NEW BILLS IN CONGRESS: A29
- STATUS OF PENDING FEDERAL LEGISLATION: A34
"OUTSOURCING" GROWS
Universities are trying to save money by turning over more of
their non-academic operations to private businesses: A35
GAY COMMITMENT CEREMONIES
Emory University announced that it would allow them to take
place in its chapels -- provided that the rite was recognized
by a religious group: A36
SURGING ENDOWMENTS
Colleges in the past fiscal year achieved investment returns of
more than 20 per cent, on average, according to a new report:
A37
- HARVARD UNIVERSITY and Yale University law schools are both
claiming a fund-raising record: A35
- AT THE UNIVERSITY of Dayton, 15 students rode out the
stock-market plunge after investing $176,000 as part of an
investment seminar that requires them to manage
two stock portfolios: A35
- MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGE Retirement Equities Fund voted to
allow the pension fund to continue investing in tobacco
stocks: A37
- THE GEORGIA BAPTIST Convention voted to cut off funds to
Mercer University if it does not adopt an agreement that
would give church leaders more say in the selection of
trustees: A38
- SIX UNIVERSITIES have sued a South Carolina retail company
for trademark infringement: A38
- DARTMOUTH COLLEGE'S PRESIDENT, James O. Freedman, has
disclosed anti-Semitic documents written by college
officials earlier this century: A8
- STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
are divided on a deal administrators made with the
athletic-shoe maker Nike: A8
- THE PRESIDENT of Brewton-Parker College resigned amid
accusations that the Baptist institution had improperly
distributed federal student aid: A9
- FIVE COLLEGES and universities have recently announced
capital campaigns: A38
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A38
"INUPIAT HOUSE"
The University of Alaska at Fairbanks has created a special
dormitory to help Native Alaskan students adjust to campus
life: A39
A CONGRESSIONAL ABOUT-FACE
A new law eases limits, set in 1992, on how students who are
financially independent of their parents can qualify for Pell
Grants: A26
RECRUITING AMERICAN INDIANS
The Iowa Board of Regents extended in-state tuition rates to
members of tribes that once resided in the state: A34
- A "MINORITY-ONLY" recruiting visit by The New York
Times to the University of California at Berkeley
has resulted in a heated e-mail discussion: A39
- STUDENTS AT THE JEWISH Theological Seminary have criticized
a dean's paper on beliefs he thinks should be held by the
Conservative rabbis who are trained at the institution: A39
- DARTMOUTH COLLEGE'S PRESIDENT, James O. Freedman, has
disclosed anti-Semitic documents written by college
officials earlier this century: A8
- STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
are divided on a deal administrators made with the
athletic-shoe maker Nike: A8
- THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH has barred a student from
performing an American Indian religious ceremony in his
dormitory: A8
- SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY students have revived a campus
tradition, the "Hobo Day" parade, which was begun in 1912:
A9
- CENTRAL COLLEGE STUDENTS rallied against intolerance
after a gay professor received two homophobic letters there:
A9
SPORTS WITHOUT SCANDALS
In Division III, many colleges run programs that receive little
attention, but in which athletes succeed academically: A41
- A FORMER NEW MEXICO STATE University men's basketball coach
has said he will come out of retirement to coach the team
for one year for $1 per month: A41
- THE COACH OF THE WOMEN'S basketball team at the University
of Iowa held a "Media Day" that required early rising for
the press: A41
- A STANFORD UNIVERSITY alumnus has taken his school spirit
into outer space. The astronaut Scott Parazynski was
photographed holding a "Beat Cal" sign aboard the Russian
space station Mir: A41
AN END TO RANDOM EPIPHANIES?
Students today belong to an age vastly more efficient in its
pursuit of information but oblivious to the pleasures and
rewards of serendipity, argues Ted Gup, a visiting professor at
the University of Maryland's College of Journalism: A52
FEARS FOR IRISH STUDIES
Not only is the postcolonial approach ill-suited, it sacrifices
literary understanding on the altar of politics, says Denis
Donoghue, who teaches English and American letters at New York
University: B4
A POSTMODERN COMMITTEE
The main reason many don't understand what humanists say today
is that too many humanists are guilty of "idea inflation," says
Beeb Salzer, a professor of drama at San Diego State
University: B6
CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY
Fifteen leading scholars report on the research projects they
are working on now: B7
HEALING AND THE EMOTIONS
Modern medicine includes many experiences that are similar to
primitive healing rituals -- and rightly so, argues M. L. Elks,
a professor of medicine at Texas Tech University Health
Sciences Center: B9
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
"THE DISCIPLINE OF THE HAND"
A teacher of freehand drawing at Cooper Union wants
architecture students to make drawing part of the design
process: B10
WORDS AND PICTURES
The exhibition "The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist, The Artist
as Writer" is at Washington University through December 21: B96
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE: PAGES A47-51
"BULLETIN BOARD": 82 PAGES OF JOB OPENINGS
DETAILS OF MORE THAN 1,100 AVAILABLE POSTS, including
teaching and research positions in higher education,
administrative and executive jobs, and openings outside
academe: B14-95
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