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THE FACULTY
CLOTHES AND THE ACADEMIC
For many academics, wardrobe selection extends beyond personal
taste to matters of ideology, discipline, and job-hunting
strategy: A12
BEYOND 'ROCKS FOR JOCKS'
Colleges should try to impart "scientific awareness" -- an
understanding of what the scientific enterprise is about --
rather than scientific literacy, writes Keith Devlin, dean of
science at Saint Mary's College of California: B6
- A 30-MINUTE VIDEO compares adjunct faculty members with
migrant farm workers, as portrayed in a 1960 documentary:
A12
- BOB DYLAN received his due from academe, finally, as the topic of a conference at Stanford University last weekend:
A12
- AN ALASKA STATE JUDGE has ruled that part-time professors at the University of Alaska have the right to bargain
collectively: A14
- KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY of Pennsylvania violated a professor's right to free speech when it denied him a tenure-track post
after he criticized multiculturalism, a federal judge has
ruled: A14
- A THEATER PROFESSOR at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been cleared of sexual-harassment charges:
A14
- SOME MEDICAL PROFESSORS at New York University are trying to block a planned affiliation with the Mount Sinai School of
Medicine: A39
- PEER REVIEW: A49
- An Arizona State University professor of women's studies
has quit over the university's failure to find a job for
her spouse.
- The chancellor of the Los Angeles Community College
District has resigned in frustration to become chancellor
of the Texas State Technical College System.
- The University of Michigan has hired its new chief
financial officer from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- An emeritus professor of history at Harvard University
will give the 27th annual Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities this spring.
- Moving on.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
DISABILITY STUDIES FLOURISH
The growing interdisciplinary field is challenging established
approaches in the biological, social, and cognitive sciences:
A15
STUDYING GRAY MATTER
Scientists are using new technology to take pictures of the
human brain at work in order to figure out how we think: A16
RAMPANT POLITICAL PARANOIA
A new book by a political scientist at Tulane University and a
psychiatrist at George Washington University explores a mindset
that the authors consider surprisingly widespread in history
and current affairs: A10
PRESERVING A LITERARY LEGACY
The National Yiddish Book Center has announced plans to
digitize its collection of more than 22,000 titles: A25
SETTING SCIENTIFIC PRIORITIES
The National Institutes of Health and Congressional critics are
at odds over how to improve the agency's support for clinical
research: A31
THE NARROWNESS OF 'GLOBALIZATION'
The focus of area-studies programs on worldwide trends
threatens to undermine Americans' knowledge of other nations,
write Peter A. Hall and Sidney Tarrow, professors of government
at, respectively, Harvard and Cornell Universities: B4
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
CREATING A VIRTUAL LIBRARY
An innovative facility at the Borough of Manhattan Community
College of the City University of New York will focus on giving
students access to its on-line materials and to the rest of
cyberspace: A23
PRESERVING A LITERARY LEGACY
The National Yiddish Book Center has announced plans to
digitize its collection of more than 22,000 titles: A25
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
OVERHEAD RATES ARE STABLE
A Chronicle study has found little change among top
universities, despite a push to tighten the rules covering the
government's reimbursement for federal research projects: A30
SETTING SCIENTIFIC PRIORITIES
The National Institutes of Health and Congressional critics are
at odds over how to improve the agency's support for clinical
research: A31
A RIFT AMONG LOAN GUARANTORS
Three out of the 36 agencies have formed a new group to
"reinvent" their role in the guaranteed-student-loan program:
A32
FIGHTING TO SAVE PERKINS LOANS
Higher-education groups are lining up to oppose a proposal by
the Clinton Administration to eliminate a program that provides
low-interest loans to low-income students: A33
THE WELFARE LAW'S IMPACT
Many urban community colleges are reporting sharp drops in the
enrollment of students who receive public assistance: A34
A CALL FOR ADMISSIONS STANDARDS
New York City's Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, in a speech to the
City Council, urged the City University of New York to end its
system of open enrollment: A35
A TEXAS POLITICIAN who is retiring this year has donated
$1.2-million to colleges in the state: A30
A SATIRICAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook published a doctored photograph of a
trustee who had objected to a conference on sexuality at
SUNY's New Paltz campus: A30
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has promised to provide $28-million
in grants to aid in training technology workers: A24
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
HIGHER EDUCATION FOR PROFIT
The proprietary sector is booming, and many companies are
raising millions of dollars on Wall Street to finance new
campuses and programs: A36
A TYCOON'S BEQUEST
The University of California at San Francisco will be the
primary beneficiary of a new trust -- worth up to $240-million
-- to support research. The donor is Larry L. Hillblom, the
late founder of a package-delivery company: A38
OVERHEAD RATES ARE STABLE
A Chronicle study has found little change among top
universities, despite a push to tighten the rules covering the
government's reimbursement for federal research projects: A30
- A WOMAN KNOWN as a corporate gadfly has given $100,000 to
Duke University on the condition that a plaque bearing her
name be kept polished and in clear view on the campus: A36
- A NEW MAGAZINE, Investment Policy, has been designed
for endowment and pension-fund managers: A36
- SOME MEDICAL PROFESSORS at New York University are trying to
block a planned affiliation with the Mount Sinai School of
Medicine: A39
- THE BILLIONAIRE who runs the cable-television company
Tele-Communications Inc., John C. Malone, has said he plans
to set up a foundation to benefit education: A40
- FUND RAISERS have begun sharing prospect research through
The Internet Prospector, a monthly electronic newsletter
and World-Wide Web site: A40
- TWO CAMPUS-SECURITY OFFICERS were killed last week in
separate incidents, one at the University of Nevada at Reno,
the other at South Texas Community College: A8
- KENT STATE UNIVERSITY has been given an elephantine
collection of Babar memorabilia: A10
- A YEAR-LONG ATHLETICS challenge has yielded $10,000 to endow
a scholarship at Wilmington College in Ohio: A10
- FINANCIAL TIES to pharmaceutical companies may taint
researchers' judgment, a Canadian study has found: A18
- A CAMBODIAN BUSINESSMAN'S honorary degree was rescinded by
Iowa Wesleyan College after it learned that he stood accused
of drug trafficking: A45
- DEVELOPMENTS in six capital campaigns: A40
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A40
STUDENTS
LAW-SCHOOL APPLICANTS NEED HELP
A declining number of applicants means that students have a
better chance of getting into law school, but now more of them
need academic support when they get there: A41
- A STUDY HAS FOUND that people with graduate degrees have
less sex than people with only a high-school education: A41
- A QUESTION ABOUT ELVIS is the newest twist in the University
of Chicago's application for admission: A41
- WOMEN'S SCORES on a revised PSAT rose slightly, but critics
who say the test is biased against girls have not been
appeased: A42
- UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII students are demanding that a building
on its Manoa campus be renamed because the professor whom it
honors was sexist and racist: A8
- ICE STORMS IN THE NORTHEAST closed many college campuses and
delayed the start of the spring semester for others: A8
- A FORMER WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY law student began a hunger
strike last week over disputes with the university that
center on its teaching methods: A8
- THREE STUDENTS in North Carolina are being investigated by
the U.S. Secret Service after being charged with passing
counterfeit money: A10
- A SATIRICAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook published a doctored photograph of a
trustee who had objected to a conference on sexuality at
SUNY's New Paltz campus: A30
ATHLETICS
A PLEA AT THE NCAA CONVENTION
Donna E. Shalala, the Secretary of Health and Human Services,
urged members of Division I to ban alcohol advertising at their
sporting events: A43
- THE UNIVERSITY of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus has made a
$3-million deal with the Land O' Lakes dairy company to
serve as an athletics sponsor in place of a brewery: A43
- ATHLETES WHO PLAY for the love of the game score better on
eye tests than those who play to win, a study has found: A43
- FOLLOWING THE DEATHS of three wrestlers in recent training
incidents, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has
changed its rules for weigh-ins and training methods: A44
INTERNATIONAL
AMERICAN LESSONS FOR RUSSIANS
The Chronicle takes a look at how four Russian professionals
are making use of their experiences on fellowships in the United
States: A45
CUTBACKS IN BERLIN
The city says it cannot give its three universities the same
support they received during the Cold War. As a result, they
are trimming teaching staffs and coordinating courses: A47
A BAN ON CLONING PEOPLE
Nearly half the member nations of the Council of Europe have
signed an agreement prohibiting the practice: A48
ADMISSIONS CRISIS IN ISRAEL?
A scholar has charged that the system used by universities to
select their students promotes social inequality and prevents
needed curricular reforms: A48
NAIROBI JOURNAL
Professors and administrators in Kenya are squandering what
funds they have and are dishonoring basic academic ethics,
writes Michael Chege, director of the Center for African
Studies at the University of Florida: B9
- A CAMBODIAN BUSINESSMAN'S honorary degree was rescinded by
Iowa Wesleyan College after it learned that he stood accused
of drug trafficking: A45
- MALI SHUT DOWN COLLEGES and schools across the country after
student protests turned violent: A45
- AUSTRALIA'S FIRST private university, Bond University in
Queensland, may face eviction: A47
OPINION & LETTERS
'VISION 2000' OR 1984?
An "agenda for women" at the six land-grant universities in New
England is a stunningly imperialistic document, writes Daphne
Patai, a professor of Brazilian literature at the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst: A56
THE NARROWNESS OF 'GLOBALIZATION'
The focus of area-studies programs on worldwide trends
threatens to undermine Americans' knowledge of other nations,
write Peter A. Hall and Sidney Tarrow, professors of government
at, respectively, Harvard and Cornell Universities: B4
BEYOND 'ROCKS FOR JOCKS'
Colleges should try to impart "scientific awareness" -- an
understanding of what the scientific enterprise is about --
rather than scientific literacy, writes Keith Devlin, dean of
science at Saint Mary's College of California: B6
WHOSE VALUES?
Scholars who study the family each claim that social-science
evidence supports their competing views. Alan Wolfe, a
professor at Boston University, sorts out those claims in an
essay on four recent books: B7
NAIROBI JOURNAL
Professors and administrators in Kenya are squandering what
funds they have and are dishonoring basic academic ethics,
writes Michael Chege, director of the Center for African
Studies at the University of Florida: B9
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
LYRICAL JOURNEY
A writer's odyssey through poetry proceeds from duty and
boredom in youth to the discovery of a perfect art form in
adulthood: B2
'THE SPARK HAD BEEN LIT'
The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian,
Gay, and Bisexual Young People (William Morrow and Company,
1997) features words and photographs to illustrate journeys of
self-discovery: B88
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE: PAGES A49-55
"BULLETIN BOARD": 76 PAGES OF JOB OPENINGS
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1255 23rd Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20037. E-mail: editor@chronicle.com
Copyright (c) 1998 by The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc.
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