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THE FACULTY
TRAINING IN LEGAL ETHICS
Law schools are using simulations and other class exercises to
teach students about the dilemmas they will face in their
careers: A12
POLICY ON 'AMOROUS' RELATIONSHIPS
A photography professor who faces punishment by Appalachian
State University says the institution has violated his rights
to privacy and due process: A13
LABOR STRIFE AT MIAMI-DADE
After professors at the community college, the largest in
Florida, voted to unionize, the president abolished the faculty
senates and the shared-governance system: A14
INTIMACY AND POWER
Concern on college campuses about sexual harassment has not
fully educated officials, faculty members, or students about
the issue, and the Monica Lewinsky scandal is evidence that all
have much to learn, writes Billie Wright Dziech, a professor of
language arts at the University of Cincinnati and co-author of
Sexual Harassment in Higher Education: B4
LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION PITFALLS
Academic readers have become increasingly distrustful of
praise, while perhaps overvaluing criticism as more reliable,
writes Carl Smith, a professor of English and American studies
at Northwestern University: A56
- EUGENE D. GENOVESE, a noted historian, is spearheading a new
scholarly group that aims to reshape the study of history:
A12
- PROFESSORS at the University of Texas at Austin gave part of
their pay raises to staff members there, after a study
showed that the latter were underpaid: A12
- KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY has settled another lawsuit by a
former faculty member who said she was discriminated against
because she is Jewish: A14
- MORE THAN 500 ACADEMICS have signed a petition to support a
Cornell University professor who is being sued by one of the
nation's largest nursing-home chains: A14
- THE STATE SUPREME COURT has ordered the New Hampshire Technical
Institute to reinstate a professor it fired over
sexual-harassment charges: A15
- FACULTY AND STAFF MEMBERS at the Community College of
Philadelphia went on strike last week, after all-night
bargaining failed to resolve pay and benefits issues: A10
- A HUNGER STRIKE by a University of Georgia professor ended
when the university agreed to let him try to secure funds
for a Korean-language minor: A11
- PEER REVIEW: A47
- Michael A. Baer and Stanley Chodorow, two provosts who
have repeatedly failed in bids for college presidencies,
have now opted for different professional paths.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
CIVIL-WAR REVISIONISM
Edward Ayers, a historian at the University of Virginia, is
using a World-Wide Web site that focuses on counties in
Virginia and Pennsylvania to challenge long-held beliefs about
the American Civil War, from the front lines to the home front:
A16
USING NUMBER THEORY
At Polytechnic University, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the Chudnovsky
brothers, brilliant emigres from the Soviet Union, are working
together to apply mathematics to real-world problems: A20
THE DRUG-TESTING ENTERPRISE
The research market was something that academic medical centers
long took for granted. Now they are having to fight for a share
of it: A39
- More of the information gathered from drug trials should
be applied to patient treatment, says the director of the
Duke Clinical Research Institute: A40
A DEAL FOR A DATA BASE
When a publishing company offered free access for a year to an
electronic archive of documents in American collections -- if
libraries gave it $400,000 -- the responses ranged from
supportive to skeptical: A30
- RESEARCHERS HAVE DISCOVERED the first evidence of the
existence of human pheromones: A21
- THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH has ended its pursuit of patents on
discredited cold-fusion technology: A21
- HOT TYPE: A21
- The new journal Sexualities, from Sage Publications, aims
to be the clearinghouse for new work with a
social-constructivist bent.
- Harvard University Press has begun revamping its Loeb
Classical Library, a 488-volume series of Greek and Latin
texts from antiquity.
- 75 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A22-25
- Nota Bene: The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium, by
Gilberto Perez, a professor of film studies at Sarah
Lawrence College. The book is published by the Johns
Hopkins University Press.
- PRESIDENT CLINTON has named 60 young researchers to receive
Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and
Engineers: A48
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
'RAMPING UP'
The University of Florida, one of the nation's largest
universities, has decided that all of its students should have
computers. Officials on the Gainesville campus are scrambling
to be ready by the fall of 1999: A27
- John V. Lombardi, the university's president, sees its
plans for technology as essential, not a luxury: A28
A DEAL FOR A DATA BASE
When a publishing company offered free access for a year to an
electronic archive of documents in American collections -- if
libraries gave it $400,000 -- the responses ranged from
supportive to skeptical: A30
CIVIL-WAR REVISIONISM
Edward Ayers, a historian at the University of Virginia, is
using a World-Wide Web site that focuses on counties in
Virginia and Pennsylvania to challenge long-held beliefs about
the American Civil War, from the front lines to the home front:
A16
USING THE WEB WITH A CRITICAL EYE
Students need to learn how to find information from all
scholarly sources, write Kari Boyd McBride, a lecturer in
women's studies, and Ruth Dickstein, a social-sciences
librarian, both of the University of Arizona: B6
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
DEBATING REMEDIAL EDUCATION
The City University of New York is under political pressure to
eliminate it, but many educators fear that such a change would
hurt needy students who might otherwise miss out on a higher
education: A33
A KEY RULING STANDS
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider an appeal of a case
from Nevada that some experts thought could lead the Justices
to reconsider the legality of affirmative action in education:
A35
FIGHTING OVER FEDERAL DOLLARS
A group of historically black colleges and universities is
seeking a larger share of funds in a graduate-education program
that until now has primarily supported five private
institutions: A37
CONFLICT OVER INTEREST RATES
A House of Representatives panel has offered a new plan on the
formula used for student loans. It would cut the rates for
borrowers and use federal funds to soften the blow for banks:
A38
- A NEW BILL introduced by a Republican Congressman would deny
most federal aid to colleges that practice affirmative
action in admissions: A33
- A SENATE COMMITTEE has dropped a proposal that would have
given trade schools access to job-training funds from the
Education Department: A33
- A MARYLAND LEGISLATOR quit amid an ethics-committee probe of
a lucrative insurance deal his business had signed with the
University of Maryland System: A34
- AN ALABAMA JUDGE has ordered the University of Alabama at
Birmingham Hospital to close its medical-supply rental
business because it competed with private companies: A34
- A CALIFORNIA JUDGE has blocked a vote on a ballot measure
that, if approved, would allow part of a community-college
district to secede: A34
- AN INCREASE IN FEDERAL SUPPORT for the National Endowment for
the Humanities is unlikely in fiscal 1999, lawmakers said at
a House of Representatives hearing: A36
- A SENATE PANEL WAS URGED to toughen federal laws on campus
crime: A36
- A LIST OF PORK-BARREL PROJECTS released by Citizens Against
Government Waste, a non-profit group, singled out more than
a dozen colleges: A36
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
A CHASE FOR DOLLARS
Academic medical centers are revamping themselves to compete
more effectively for drug-testing contracts, but some faculty
members say they fear the effect of such efforts on research
priorities: A39
- The director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute is
pushing to make better use of the information derived
from drug trials: A40
'DEAF PRESIDENT NOW'
A decade after protests forced Elisabeth A. Zinser to quit
after just a few days as president of Gallaudet University, she
returned to the campus to mark the anniversary and to visit
with I. King Jordan, who replaced her: A41
LABOR STRIFE AT MIAMI-DADE
After professors at the community college, the largest in
Florida, voted to unionize, the president abolished the faculty
senates and the shared-governance system: A14
UNPAID BILLS
Some students at Yeshiva University are angry over the role of
American Express in warning them about their delinquent tuition
charges: A44
- BUSINESS STUDENTS at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
are managing a $10-million portion of the campus's
endowment: A39
- AN INTERNET FORUM created to foster the discussion of issues
involved in raising money from women has been shut down for
lack of interest: A39
- A NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY trustee has resigned over the
university's response to an audit showing that fund-raising
events he had sponsored had actually lost money: A42
- MOODY'S INVESTOR SERVICE, a debt-rating company, warned nine
colleges and universities in the New York City area not to
take on more debt: A42
- CHABOT COLLEGE is not renewing the contracts of 21
administrators this year in an effort to save $300,000: A42
- THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA and California State University
Systems have signed new deals with energy suppliers in the
aftermath of the deregulation of the industry: A43
- SYLVAN LEARNING SYSTEMS and MCI Communications plan to spin
off their continuing-education network as a separate,
for-profit company: A43
- LA GUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE of the City University of New
York is offering a four-hour class for taxi drivers: A10
- THE COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC will soon become the owner and
operator of two lighthouses on the Maine coast: A11
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A43
STUDENTS
UNPAID BILLS
Some students at Yeshiva University are angry over the role of
American Express in warning them about their delinquent tuition
charges: A44
MORALITY PLAYS
Law students are doing simulations and taking classes intended
to teach them how to deal ethically with sticky situations
they may encounter in the profession: A12
- THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE of Technology will reduce by
$1,000 the amount that each student on financial aid must
contribute to their own educations: A10
- ASPIRING PILOTS for British Airways arrived for classes at
Western Michigan University recently aboard a supersonic
Concorde jet: A10
- AT LEAST 110 MINORITY and international students at
Manchester College, in Indiana, received a racist message by
e-mail last week: A11
INTERNATIONAL
DEFINING A CULTURE
Scholars who are Sami, the indigenous people of the far north
of Europe, are playing a new role in research about their life,
history, and society: A45
NEW UNIVERSITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
A graduate student at Harvard University is attracting support
for a plan to use higher education as a way to unite a divided
region: A11
OPINION & LETTERS
LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION PITFALLS
Academic readers have become increasingly distrustful of
praise, while perhaps overvaluing criticism as more reliable,
writes Carl Smith, a professor of English and American studies
at Northwestern University: A56
INTIMACY AND POWER
Concern on college campuses about sexual harassment has not
fully educated officials, faculty members, or students about
the issue, and the Monica Lewinsky scandal is evidence that all
have much to learn, writes Billie Wright Dziech, a professor of
language arts at the University of Cincinnati and co-author of
Sexual Harassment in Higher Education: B4
USING THE WEB WITH A CRITICAL EYE
Students need to learn how to find information from all
scholarly sources, write Kari Boyd McBride, a lecturer in
women's studies, and Ruth Dickstein, a social-sciences
librarian, both of the University of Arizona: B6
SCIENCE FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION
Researchers and journalists need to cooperate to do a better
job of explaining the results of scientific work, write Charles
R. Chappell, an adjunct professor of physics and director of
science-and-research communications at Vanderbilt University,
and James Hartz, a journalist specializing in reporting on
outer space and science: B7
THE MOTHER OF ALL ALL-NIGHTERS
Joel J. Gold, a professor of English at the University of
Kansas, recounts a memorable stint after weeks of ignoring
textbooks and lectures: B8
THE PHYSICS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
A preoccupation with water flowing off a spinning bicycle
wheel, with entropy, and with innate calculations leads to
questions about phenomena, epiphenomena, and cracks in the
wall: B2
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
THE WORLD AROUND US
The exhibition "Seeing Is Not Believing: The Art of Robert
Weaver" is at the School of Visual Arts: B84
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE
"BULLETIN BOARD": JOB OPENINGS
- DETAILS OF AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching and research
positions in higher education, administrative and executive
jobs, and openings outside academe.
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