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THE FACULTY
THE END OF 'SHARED GOVERNANCE'?
Many faculty members say that the system that gave them a role
in university decision making is no longer working, and some
professors are trying to do something about it: A8
A RECRUITING COUP GONE AWRY
A history professor who gave up a tenured post to move to City
College of the City University of New York says the institution
denied him tenure there because of ethnic bias: A10
VINDICATION FOR VASSAR
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of a biology
professor who said she had been denied tenure by the formerly
all-female college because she was a married woman and a
mother: A10
- A HARVARD LAW PROFESSOR has assigned his students to
investigate a controversial case of tenure denial that
occurred at the university last year: A8
- SLUGGISH PROGRESS is being made in education reform, says a
paper released by the Association of American Colleges and
Universities at its annual meeting this month: A8
- THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION of University Professors has issued
another report that criticizes Bennington College's policy
on tenure and its treatment of one professor: A11
- A PROGRAM THAT AIMS to prepare graduate students for faculty
life has recently opened a World-Wide Web site: A23
- A COMPANY THAT MAKES religious tapes has asked a Mansfield
University professor of speech, communications, and theater
to be the voice of God for a tape of the New Testament: A7
- PEER REVIEW: A41
- The philosopher Richard Rorty is planning to leave the
University of Virginia for Stanford University in order
to be closer to his family.
- The Johns Hopkins University's English department may
lose two of its star members: Frances Ferguson and her
husband, Walter Benn Michaels, have been talking with
Duke University about moving there.
- Moving on.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
STUDYING STORMY WEATHER
Meteorologists say that this year's El Nino -- the most
powerful of the century -- is giving them an unparalleled
opportunity to study the phenomenon: A12
THE FACTORS BEHIND DEPRESSION
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, a University of Michigan researcher, says
"ruminative coping" explains why many more women than men
suffer from the disorder: A14
LEARNING TO LOVE SKUNKS
Jerry Dragoo, a scholar at the University of New Mexico who
happens to have a poor sense of smell, finds research subjects
and pets among the maligned animals: A7
A NOBEL PRIZE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE
The economics award should be broadened to recognize scholarly
giants in related fields, write Michael S. McPherson, an
economics professor and president of Macalester College, and
Morton Owen Schapiro, an economist and dean at the University
of Southern California: B7
KEEPING UP WITH SCHOLARLY TITLES
There has to be an easier way to find out about the 8,000 or so
books published each year by university presses, writes James
Shapiro, a professor of English and comparative literature at
Columbia University: B9
ITALY'S ART OF ANATOMY
Lecture halls and dissection theaters in Bologna and Padua
still stand as relics of the golden age of anatomy: B2
- WIDESPREAD TRANSPLANTING of organs from non-human animals
into people should be put on hold so that risks from the
practice can be debated publicly, argue nine researchers in
the February issue of Nature Medicine: A15
- A "NEGATIVE" PERSONALITY may raise the risk of repeat heart
attacks, according to an article in Circulation: Journal
of the American Heart Association: A15
- THE INTENSITY OF ATLANTIC hurricanes may be altered by air
pollution emanating from the Eastern Seaboard of the United
States, say two climatologists: A15
- A TEAM OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS is working furiously to uncover an
ancient Christian monastery in Syria before the completion
of a dam that would threaten the area with flooding: A7
- HOT TYPE: A15
- A journalism professor has tapped into Super Bowl mania
to sell her new book, Contesting the Super Bowl, which
studies how corporate and community groups use the event.
- A collection of scholarly essays delves into the
award-winning play Angels in America and its author, Tony
Kushner.
- 95 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A16-19
- Nota Bene: The Ovary of Eve: Egg and Sperm and
Preformation, by Clara Pinto-Correia, a professor of
developmental biology at the Universidade Lusofona. The
book is published by the University of Chicago Press.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
REACHING DEVELOPING NATIONS
Ronald E. LaPorte, a University of Pittsburgh epidemiologist,
has created a World-Wide Web "Supercourse" designed to provide
the best available information on improving public health: A21
'THE LITTLE MAGAZINE' ON LINE
Graduate students at the State University of New York at Albany
are publishing a journal only on CD-ROM and the World-Wide Web:
A22
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
WHAT TO DO ABOUT COLLEGE COSTS
In its final report, a federal panel said higher education
risked "an erosion of public trust" if tuition continues to
rise, but it rejected the idea of new government regulation:
A26
TRANSITIONS IN FLORIDA
An offensive remark by John V. Lombardi, president of the
state's biggest university, has sparked a debate over
governance, as state officials are trying to plan for an
expected surge in enrollment: A27
SUPPORT FOR ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTERS
A new federal study urged a shift toward a financing system
that would be linked to institutions' meeting specific national
goals: A29
A VICTORY FOR PART-TIME STUDENTS
The Internal Revenue Service ruled that students who work for
their colleges owe no Social Security taxes on their wages if
they are enrolled at least half time: A29
- SEVERAL CONSERVATIVE GOVERNORS, facing re-election
campaigns, are seeking more money for higher education in
their states, in contrast to their past actions: A26
- A SETTLEMENT with tobacco companies of a lawsuit over
tobacco-related health-care costs may bring four Texas
universities $400-million: A28
- THE U.S. SUPREME COURT has announced that it will not review
Mississippi's long-running college-desegregation case again:
A28
- A CONSULTING CONTRACT with Coppin State College was cited in
the expulsion of a Senator from the Maryland state
legislature: A28
- ENROLLMENT PATTERNS for non-Asian minority students
underwent drastic changes at the University of California's
graduate and professional schools in the first year since
the state banned affirmative action by public colleges: A28
- THE WHITE HOUSE is seeking $86-million more for civil-rights
programs in its fiscal-1999 budget request: A30
- AN ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP has criticized universities'
participation in an Energy Department program to use
advanced computer simulations to evaluate the country's
nuclear arsenal: A30
- A CONSULTANT and 22 parents of students attending colleges
and universities in Ohio have been charged with fraudulently
obtaining about $170,000 in federal student aid: A30
- STATUS OF PENDING FEDERAL LEGISLATION: A30
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
MANAGING A HUGE ENDOWMENT
Critics say it is inappropriate for a private company to handle
the funds of the University of Texas, the wealthiest public
institution in the United States, and they cite instances of
what they call mismanagement as evidence: A31
PICKING ACADEME'S LEADERS
Change, the journal of the American Association for Higher
Education has named more than 80 movers and shakers: A33
THE END OF 'SHARED GOVERNANCE'?
Many faculty members say that the system that gave them a role
in university decision making is no longer working, and some
professors are trying to do something about it: A8
- MUHLENBERG COLLEGE'S Institute of Entrepreneurship has
received gifts of stock options from start-up companies that
may help build an endowment: A31
- SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY officials have alienated a high-profile
lawyer for whom they had planned to name a new law library.
The university was asking $2-million for the honor: A31
- CHABOT COLLEGE is considering laying off 23 top
administrators in order to save $300,000 a year: A34
- THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of College Stores will reorganize
at the executive level if its members approve changes to
bylaws in a vote next month: A34
- JOE PATERNO, the famed Pennsylvania State University
football coach, and his wife will give the university
$3.5-million for new teaching posts, scholarships, a
spiritual center, and a sports hall of fame: A34
- A HARVARD MUSEUM has been accused by some scholars of buying
antiquities that had been looted from tombs in Italy: A6
- AN IOWA COMMUNITY is seeking to revive the recently closed
Westmar University as a state institution: A6
- WESLEY COLLEGE in Delaware recently received a Victorian
mansion for use as its president's residence: A6
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A34
STUDENTS
MAJOR SHIFT IN AID POLICY
Princeton University's plan to offer more grant money to
middle- and low-income students may create tough choices for
other elite colleges as they attempt to compete for students:
A35
FACING EXPULSION
Critics say that New York University is seeking to punish a
student for his opposition to the institution's research
involving animals: A36
A VICTORY FOR PART-TIME STUDENTS
The Internal Revenue Service ruled that students who work for
their colleges owe no Social Security taxes on their wages if
they are enrolled at least half time: A29
HELPING ASIAN STUDENTS
Colleges in the United States are trying to provide assistance
to students from countries whose currencies have collapsed: A38
AFTERMATH OF AN ATTACK IN GUATEMALA
An ambush in which five students from St. Mary's College of
Maryland were raped points to difficult safety issues facing
study-abroad programs: A40
- A RHODES COLLEGE COURSE, "Bad Shakespeare," offers the worst
of the Bard: A35
- UNIVERSITY OF IOWA STUDENTS have been given access to a
program that enables them to send anonymous "teaching
telegrams" to their professors: A35
- OFFICIALS at Indiana University-Purdue University at
Indianapolis are trying to find out who sent a racist letter
to all black students in the university's first-year law
class: A6
- KAPLAN EDUCATIONAL CENTERS has agreed to pay the Educational
Testing Service $150,000 to settle a lawsuit over Kaplan's
copying of questions from a computerized version of the
Graduate Record Examination: A7
- WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of
best-selling books: A36
ATHLETICS
- JOE PATERNO, the famed Pennsylvania State University
football coach, and his wife will give the university
$3.5-million for new teaching posts, scholarships, a
spiritual center, and a sports hall of fame: A34
- THE HEAD FOOTBALL COACH at the University of Central Florida
has resigned over a cellular-telephone fraud involving his
team: A34
- THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT has reinstated a wrongful-death
lawsuit against the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville's
athletics director in the 1993 suicide of a football player:
A34
INTERNATIONAL
TURMOIL AT AMERICAN U. IN BULGARIA
Many faculty members have left, accusing the administration of
an authoritarian approach that they see as inconsistent with
the university's aims and eerily similar to the country's old
Communist universities: A37
HELPING ASIAN STUDENTS
Colleges in the United States are trying to provide assistance
to students from countries whose currencies have collapsed: A38
- Australian universities could see a 30-per-cent decline
in their number of fee-paying students from Asia, due to
the economic crises pervading Southeast Asia: A39
AFTERMATH OF AN ATTACK IN GUATEMALA
An ambush in which five students from St. Mary's College of
Maryland were raped points to difficult safety issues facing
study-abroad programs: A40
ITALY'S ART OF ANATOMY
Lecture halls and dissection theaters in Bologna and Padua
still stand as relics of the golden age of anatomy: B2
OPINION & LETTERS
VITAL INFORMATION FROM TESTING
Suggestions that the University of California drop the SAT as
an admission requirement for Hispanic and other minority
students are shortsighted, writes Donald M. Stewart, president
of the College Board: A48
BONDING AT ANNAPOLIS
The structure of the U.S. Naval Academy is deeply male -- and
thus, hardly by chance, both deeply misogynistic and deeply
homophobic, writes Bruce Fleming, a professor of English there:
B4
REINVENTING GOVERNMENT
"Public entrepreneurship" is necessary, and with better
guidelines it can be accomplished ethically, write Steven
Cohen and William Eimicke, professors of public policy and
administration at Columbia University's School of International
and Public Affairs: B6
A NOBEL PRIZE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE
The economics award should be broadened to recognize scholarly
giants in related fields, write Michael S. McPherson, an
economics professor and president of Macalester College, and
Morton Owen Schapiro, an economist and dean at the University
of Southern California: B7
KEEPING UP WITH SCHOLARLY TITLES
There has to be an easier way to find out about the 8,000 or so
books published each year by university presses, writes James
Shapiro, a professor of English and comparative literature at
Columbia University: B9
BOMBAST OVER BROADWAY
Today's musicals often present a "Cliffs Notes" version of
traditional literary works, writes Martha S. LoMonaco, an
associate professor and director of the theater program at
Fairfield University: B10
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
STEPPING BEYOND REALITY
The University of Texas Press has published Keith Carter
Photographs: Twenty-Five Years, by a professor of art at
Lamar University: B88
BOMBAST OVER BROADWAY
Today's musicals often present a "Cliffs Notes" version of
traditional literary works, writes Martha S. LoMonaco, an
associate professor and director of the theater program at
Fairfield University: B10
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE: PAGES A49-55
"BULLETIN BOARD": 74 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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