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THE FACULTY
A LACK OF MANNERS
More faculty members are reporting uncivil behavior by students
-- from talking out of turn in class to shouting expletives to
making physical assaults: A12
PRACTICING ANTHROPOLOGIST
Julio Santana Braga, a respected anthropologist who is also a
Candomble priest, straddles two worlds in multicultural Brazil:
B2
- A CALIFORNIA PROFESSOR of sociology has started a group to
end the "adversarial relationship" between the sexes: A12
- AN INSTRUCTOR at a college in Texas has developed some
recruiting tips for departments that are not attracting
enough students: A12
- A JOURNALISM PROFESSOR won a jury award of $122,000 after
charging that Bowling Green State University had denied him
a teaching post because he is white: A14
- FOUR PROFESSORS at Louisiana College have settled a lawsuit
against a conservative Baptist group, which the professors
said had defamed them: A14
- SIX FEMALE PROFESSORS have sued the University of South
Florida, charging that it discriminated against them by
paying them less than male professors: A14
- FACULTY MEMBERS in the State University of New York at
Buffalo's family-medicine department have created a fund to
cover colleagues' small projects: A43
- ALL FACULTY MEMBERS at Mount Vernon College, which is being
absorbed by George Washington University, will lose their
jobs when the college's last class graduates, in 1999: A44
- AT LEAST 42 PROFESSORS with Hispanic surnames at California
State University at Los Angeles have received copies of the
same racist and threatening e-mail message: A8
- VISITING PROFESSORS at Southwest Texas State University will
soon be able to stay in the childhood home of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning author Katherine Anne Porter: A8
- FACULTY AND STAFF MEMBERS of the Community College of
Philadelphia ended their strike after reaching agreement on
a new contract: A10
- PEER REVIEW: A57
- After an unsuccessful job search that was tracked by The
Chronicle, a graduate student in English will start a
position at Iowa State University.
- The president of Knox College is leaving to take a
fund-raising position with the foundation that runs the
historic town of Williamsburg, Va.
- Judith Sturnick, who has served as president of two New
England colleges, is a new official at the American
Council on Education.
- Bradley Epps, an associate professor of the humanities
at Harvard University, has received tenure.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
KING PHILIP'S WAR
A book by Boston University's Jill Lepore about a little-known
and exceptionally bloody 17th-century conflict between
British colonists and American Indians is winning praise for
its style and research: A16
UNTRADITIONAL TREATMENTS
Acupuncture, herbal remedies, prayer, homeopathy, and other
forms of alternative medicine are the subject of serious
research -- and heavy skepticism: A20
'WELFARE'S END'
In a new book, Gwendolyn Mink, a University of California at
Santa Cruz professor, argues that policies designed to promote
self-sufficiency are depriving poor women of their rights: A10
- ASTRONOMERS HAVE SPOTTED the oldest object ever observed in
the universe, a galaxy that existed when the universe was
only 6 per cent as old as it is today: A21
- A VITAMIN-D DEFICIENCY is surprisingly common among hospital
patients, a study indicates: A22
- MEN ARE MORE LIKELY to stew when the are angry, and women
are more likely to ease their ire by distracting themselves,
according to new research: A22
- AN EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN in Thailand about the use of condoms
has cut the rate of H.I.V. infection, according to research
published in the journal AIDS: A22
- HOT TYPE: A22
- Two collections of essays by the late Judith Shklar
reveal the range of the political scientist's work in the
years before she died, in 1992.
- Schocken Books has published a new translation of Franz
Kafka's The Castle that is more faithful to the
original than any preceding translation.
- 76 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A23-25
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
NOT-SO-DISTANT LEARNERS
Colleges that have set up distance-education programs are
finding that students on their own campuses make up a
surprisingly large number of those enrolled in the programs:
A29
CUTTING PROCESSING COSTS
A free software system called "Beowulf" lets researchers link
up a set of personal computers to perform tasks that used to
require the power of costly supercomputers: A32
WHAT'S IN A DATA BASE?
A computer program created at a federal nuclear-weapons
laboratory can analyze vast electronic archives and identify
relationships and patterns among their contents: A33
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT
A House of Representatives committee voted to authorize
increases in the size of Pell Grants and to expand
eligibility for them in a mammoth bill to extend the law that
governs most federal programs for colleges: A36
RESEARCH VS. PRIVACY
Scientists are backing legislation that they say would permit
their projects to go forward while regulating access to the
medical records of research subjects: A38
ANOTHER FINANCIAL-AID BACKLOG?
A number of colleges worry that students' aid applications are
not being processed by the Education Department at the normal
rate, but government officials deny that anything is amiss: A39
ACADEMIC TURF BATTLES
A small private college in West Virginia has found itself the
prize in a competition for students among public universities
in the state: A40
RAISING NEW MONEY
Supporters of the arts and humanities at a meeting of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences agreed that they needed
to seek funds from the private sector in an era of limited
public support: A42
- UTAH OFFICIALS are exchanging fire over a University of Utah
ban on the carrying of guns on the campus: A36
- UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE professors have rejected a U.S.
Senator's proposal to require recipients of a scholarship to
not become unwed parents: A36
- THREE CAMPUSES of the University of California reported
declines in minority admissions to the freshman class that
will enroll this fall: A41
- NORTH DAKOTA'S State Board of Education has admitted that it
violated open-meeting laws in discussing whether to remove
the University of North Dakota's president: A41
- MOST AMERICANS BELIEVE no one should be denied access to a
higher education on account of cost, according to results of
a new survey: A41
- A STUDY SUGGESTS the causes of "brain drains" of the best
students and what states can do about the migratory
patterns: A41
- A JOURNALISM PROFESSOR won a jury award of $122,000 after
charging that Bowling Green State University had denied him
a teaching post because he is white: A14
- NEW BILLS IN CONGRESS: A42
- STATUS OF PENDING FEDERAL LEGISLATION: A42
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
BOARDROOM EXPERTISE
More colleges are picking business-school deans as presidents
because of their managerial sense and their fund-raising
skill, and some faculty members are worried about the trend:
A43
RESISTING THE FORCES OF PROFIT
Individual contact with students is one of the most inefficient
services that a university provides, but it is also one of the
most valuable, writes Michael Berube, a professor of English
and director of a humanities-research program at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: B4
THE EFFECT OF TUITION SUBSIDIES
Recent economic research shows that it is highly misleading to
see a college or a university as just another business, writes
Gordon Winston, an economics professor at Williams College: B6
STUDENTS
A FULL COURSE LOAD
Eric Coyle, a senior at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas,
is earning 64 credits this semester, prompting questions about
the ease of courses at U.N.L.V. and about the university's
academic regulations: A47
AN ONSLAUGHT OF STUDENTS
The size of the high-school graduating class in the United
States is projected to reach an all-time high of 3.2 million by
2008, according to a new report: A48
- THE SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON fraternity vowed to fight Louisiana
State University's decision to suspend it after one of its
pledges drank himself to death last year: A47
- FOUR STUDENTS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
each received $100 "refunds" from a guest lecturer who
opposes its tuition policies: A47
- THE FIRST FEMALE CADETS at the Virginia Military Institute
joined their male classmates in a rite of passage to end
their months of torment by upperclassmen: A8
- WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of
best-selling books: A10
ATHLETICS
MARCH SANITY
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletic's Division
II men's basketball tournament captures little attention at
this time of the year, but it continues to draw teams and fans
to a small town in Idaho: A50
KEY TITLE IX RULING
A decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
could mean that gender-bias laws that apply to colleges will
also apply to the National Collegiate Athletic Association: A51
- SENATOR WILLIAM ROTH
of Delaware crowed over the basketball
fortunes of the University of Delaware Blue Hens in remarks
that appeared in the Congressional Record: A50
- ALLEGATIONS OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, alleged rules violations,
and bad publicity are dogging California State University at
Fresno's basketball team: A50
INTERNATIONAL
THE ASIAN ECONOMIC CRISIS
In four stories, The Chronicle surveys the impact on colleges
and universities in four countries -- the United States,
Britain, Canada, and Australia -- that enroll large numbers of
students from the Asian nations most beset by the financial
turmoil: A52-55
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- A look at the U.S. institutions with the most students
from the four hardest-hit countries found that the impact
was less severe than officials had feared: A52
- British universities have set up special funds for
students who are affected by the crisis, and the
government is considering awarding partial scholarships:
A53
- Few Asian students in Canada have asked for emergency
financial help, but applications from their home
countries are expected to fall: A54
- A significant drop in the number of visas issued to
foreigners to attend Australian universities portends an
enrollment decline within two years, officials say: A55
AN ISRAELI UNIVERSITY'S IDENTITY
A book about Bar-Ilan University has renewed questions about
its dual goals of winning respect for academic quality and
maintaining an Orthodox Jewish character: A56
PRACTICING ANTHROPOLOGIST
Julio Santana Braga, a respected anthropologist who is also a
Candomble priest, straddles two worlds in multicultural Brazil:
B2
- THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT is starting a program to encourage
citizens to pursue "lifelong learning" as part of efforts to
remain employable: A52
- THREE UNIVERSITIES in Nova Scotia, Canada, have reached
tentative contract agreements with their part-time faculty
members after three years of negotiation: A52
- INDONESIAN STUDENTS protested their country's economic
crisis in a series of nationwide demonstrations: A56
- A HIGHER-EDUCATION COUNCIL in Turkey has come out in support
of a ban on Islamic garb at universities: A56
- ISRAEL PLANS TO INCREASE the number of its high-technology
graduates: A56
OPINION & LETTERS
ADVENT OF 'GENETIC ENHANCEMENTS'
A lack of scientific knowledge may make the risks of new
techniques unacceptable when weighed against the possible
benefits, writes Doris T. Zallen, a professor of
science-and-technology studies at Virginia Tech: A64
RESISTING THE FORCES OF PROFIT
Individual contact with students is one of the most inefficient
services that a university provides, but it is also one of the
most valuable, writes Michael Berube, a professor of English
and director of a humanities-research program at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: B4
THE EFFECT OF TUITION SUBSIDIES
Recent economic research shows that it is highly misleading to
see a college or a university as just another business, writes
Gordon Winston, an economics professor at Williams College: B6
LURCHING TOWARD MATURITY
Erik Kolbell, a writer in New York City and a former chaplain
of Oakland University, observes three young men as they learn
to take one another seriously: B7
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
THE INNOCENT EYE
Significant links exist between children's art and the pioneers
of Modernism, writes Jonathan Fineberg, a professor of art
history and a university scholar at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign: B8
THE ART OF PERSUASION
The exhibition "Word and Image: Swiss Poster Design, 1955-1997"
is at the University of Maryland Baltimore County: B80
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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