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THE FACULTY
QUALITY OF TEACHING ASSAILED
A report by a commission created by the Carnegie Endowment for
the Advancement of Teaching says that research universities are
ignoring the needs of undergraduates. The report calls for new
approaches to lecture classes and faculty research: A12
A HOT WRITING PROGRAM
The University of Oregon used an international, multicultural
approach to hire notable professors, who in turn have attracted
increasing numbers of students: A13
GENUINE ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES
At the Cannon Valley Elder Collegium, in Northfield, Minn.,
retired faculty members from liberal-arts colleges teach senior
citizens: A10
- THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION of University Professors has
elected a new slate of officers: A12
- TWO GRADUATES of the University of Notre Dame's law school
who worked at its Legal Aid Clinic asked guests at their
wedding to give money to the clinic instead of gifts to
them: A12
- NEW YORK UNIVERSITY has been found not liable for the sexual
harassment of a transsexual student by an assistant
professor of musicology: A14
- FACULTY MEMBERS, students, and alumni of Georgetown
University's law school are protesting the president's
decision to replace the popular dean of the school: A10
- PEER REVIEW: A63
- Stanford University's political-science department is
wooing big names at Harvard University, the University of
Chicago, and the University of California at Los Angeles.
- A noted economist has dropped plans to move from Harvard
to Columbia University, despite a lucrative offer.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
STORIES OF LIVING AUTHORS
New literary biographies by two professors explore the lives
and works of Joyce Carol Oates and William Styron: A16
GENDER AND PAIN
At a recent conference, researchers talked about intriguing
findings on how the nervous systems of men and women seem to
respond differently to discomfort: A18
FIELDS OF DREAMS
A British military historian, Richard Holmes, is a connoisseur
of battlefields -- places of death and glory: B2
- VACCINES COULD BE substituted for antibiotics and thereby
help prevent the spread of antibiotic-resistant microbes,
researchers say: A19
- SCIENTISTS HAVE DEVELOPED a new method of detecting E. coli
and salmonella, two types of lethal bacteria that
contaminate food: A19
- ANTISOCIAL YOUTHS have been found to be particularly prone
to marijuana addiction: A19
- TELESCOPIC GLASSES invented by an ophthalmology professor at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are giving
sight to people with impaired vision: A8
- AN ELECTRONIC "NOSE" that can detect seafood pathogens by
chemically absorbing their odors is being tested at the
University of Florida: A10
- TWO ACADEMIC HOSPITALS in New York City have been accused of
illegally administering a drug to children as part of a
brain-activity experiment: A47
- HOT TYPE: A19
- Elaine Scarry, a professor of English at Harvard
University, has theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought
down by mistake in a secret U.S. military operation.
- Five professors, including the author of a book on the
Scopes trial, won Pulitzer Prizes.
- 92 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A20-22
- Nota Bene: The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in
Myth, by Wendy Doniger, a professor of the history of
religions at the University of Chicago. The book is
published by Columbia University Press.
- THE WOODROW WILSON National Fellowship Foundation has
announced the recipients of the 1998 Andrew W. Mellon
Fellowships in Humanistic Studies: A64
- THE ORGANIZATION of American Historians honored two dozen
scholars at its recent annual meeting in Indianapolis: A64
- 15 SCHOLARS HAVE WON Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants in
Women's Studies: A64-65
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
MICROSOFT'S REACH IN HIGHER EDUCATION
In a special report, The Chronicle examines the powerful
company's growing role on America's campuses, from its
dominance of the software market to its gifts that may actually
promote sales, from its hiring away of top scholars to its
purchase of intellectual property. Some people wonder if
Microsoft might eventually offer college courses: A25-34
- As the company moves to sell colleges on its
comprehensive approach to software packaging, campus
critics question some of its marketing tactics: A26
- Microsoft gives away millions of dollars in software, but
its largesse has led to a debate over whether it is
engaged in generous philanthropy or shrewd marketing: A28
- For $10,000 annual stipends, some of the leading experts
on campus-computing issues provide advice to Microsoft:
A29
- Microsoft pays some professors $200 each for mentioning
or using the company's programming tools in their
presentations: A30
- Microsoft is attracting top computer-science scholars to
its basic-research arm by offering them unlimited funds
and an open agenda: A31
- Microsoft's acquisition of intellectual property has some
colleges wondering if the software giant will some day be
competing with them directly, by offering courses: A33
- Is Microsoft's headquarters a campus or just an office
park?: A25
SPEEDING UP SCIENCE
A very fast, new data network will be created for the use of
university researchers, Vice-President Gore announced. The
network, to which three technology companies are donating more
than $500-million, might be running by the end of the year: A36
'MOST WIRED' COLLEGE
Dartmouth College came out on top in the second annual survey
conducted by Yahoo! Internet Life magazine. The survey was said
to be more reliable than last year's, but critics still cited
flaws: A37
THE IMPACT OF RACE
A new study has documented differences in computer ownership
and access to the World-Wide Web between black people and white
people: A38
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
CONFLICTING RULINGS
Court orders stemming from desegregation cases are allowing
public colleges in Louisiana and Mississippi to continue
affirmative-action programs that would be illegal in Texas,
based on the Hopwood case: A42
MILITARY RECRUITING
The Pentagon has warned dozens of law schools that their
policies on campus recruiters -- many of the schools ban groups
perceived to be anti-homosexual -- place them at risk of losing
federal support: A43
TAKING ON TEACHER EDUCATION
Representative George Miller, a liberal Democrat from
California, is angering college lobbyists with his plan to link
the provision of federal funds to the rates at which
teacher-college graduates pass licensing examinations: A46
CAMPUS CRIME
Both the House of Representatives and the Senate versions of a
bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act would require
colleges to release more information on more types of crimes:
A50
- A STATE AUDITOR is questioning how funds from the U.S.
Agency for International Development were spent by a
University of Missouri at Columbia scientist to ship liquor
and salsa to Kenya: A42
- THE U.S. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT has cleared a backlog of
student-aid applications: A42
- MORE THAN 40 PRIVATE COLLEGES are participating in a new,
non-profit prepaid-tuition plan: A45
- THE NEVADA SUPREME COURT has ruled that the Nevada Board of
Regents violated the state's open-meetings law when it used
facsimiles and telephone calls to hold meetings: A45
- A REPORT from Congress's Joint Economic Committee has urged
lawmakers to curb non-defense spending in order to keep the
federal budget balanced: A47
- THE DEFAULT RATES on federal student loans have improved
among graduates of some historically black colleges: A47
- TWO ACADEMIC HOSPITALS in New York City have been accused of
illegally administering a drug to children as part of a
brain-activity experiment: A47
- A KANSAS MAN has pleaded guilty to falsifying data on Pell
Grant applications: A50
- NEW BILLS IN CONGRESS: A50
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
CORPORATE SPONSORS
An increasing number of faculty chairs are being endowed by
businesses. Some observers question whether colleges are making
too many concessions in order to attract the gifts: A51
STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
Five recent court decisions should help colleges develop sound
policies, writes Laura Rothstein, a professor of law at the
University of Houston Law Center: B6
STUDENTS
GENDER GAP
Enrollment at many colleges of veterinary medicine, once
predominantly male, is now overwhelmingly female: A55
SENIOR CITIZENS AS STUDENTS
The Cannon Valley Elder Collegium, in Northfield, Minn., was
set up to offer a more-intense academic experience than
Elderhostels and mini-courses: A10
- MARLBORO COLLEGE has voted to permit students of the
opposite sex to share dormitory rooms: A55
- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY is boasting that it received more
undergraduate applications this year than Yale University
did: A55
- ALBERTUS MAGNUS COLLEGE is ending a program in which degrees
can be earned in three years because not enough students are
participating in it: A56
- A FEDERAL JUDGE has dismissed a lawsuit against Princeton
University by one of its graduates, who said a university
official had notified medical schools to which he applied
that he had lied on his applications: A8
- STUDENTS, faculty members, and alumni of Georgetown
University's law school are protesting the president's
decision to replace the school's dean: A10
- NINE STUDENTS at the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities
campus have ended a hunger strike despite their failure to
get the administration to hire an additional professor: A10
ATHLETICS
- PRESIDENT CLINTON and a panel of collegiate and professional
sports figures discussed issues of race and athletics on a
special program on ESPN: A58
- A NATIONAL COLLEGIATE Athletic Association committee has
recommended that wrestlers be barred from dangerous
weight-loss training regimens that have resulted in the
recent deaths of three athletes: A58
- SEVERAL PLAYERS on the University of Southern Colorado's
women's basketball team have quit, and some have said that
their head coach tried to turn them into lesbians: A58
- THE MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM at Southeast Missouri State
University has been put on probation for three years for
rules violations: A58
INTERNATIONAL
RELIGIOUS STRIFE IN TURKEY
Educators are upholding the country's ban on Islamic garb on
the campuses, prompting some university students to protest:
A59
PROTESTS IN INDONESIA
The government's tentative deal with the International Monetary
Fund has failed to quell students who have demonstrated, with
occasional violence, for economic change and democratic reform:
A61
LEARNING HARD-HITTING JOURNALISM
Students at Moscow State University produce a popular
television show that asks tough questions of Russia's leaders:
A62
FIELDS OF DREAMS
A British military historian, Richard Holmes, is a connoisseur
of battlefields -- places of death and glory: B2
- CANADIAN WOMEN are outpacing Canadian men in getting a
college education: A59
- A DUTCH COLLEGE is offering its staff members bonuses if
they quit smoking: A59
- TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY'S social-science faculty has established
an affirmative-action program, modeled after one at the law
school, that seeks to help disadvantaged students: A59
- NOVA SCOTIA'S 11 universities say they are facing a
financial crisis because of a decline in government support
for higher education: A62
- BRITAIN PLANS TO CUT support for the Universities of
Cambridge and Oxford: A62
OPINION & LETTERS
BEYOND THE ACADEMY
Public intellectuals are good for national discourse, but they
may be an endangered species, writes Bruce Bawer, a columnist
for The Advocate and a book reviewer for the Hudson Review: A72
WITH HUMILITY AND RESPECT
Reviewing books should be seen as among the most solemnly
undertaken of academic duties, but it often is not, writes Alan
Wolfe, a University Professor at Boston University: B4
STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
Five recent court decisions should help colleges develop sound
policies, writes Laura Rothstein, a professor of law at the
University of Houston Law Center: B6
LEGAL THEATRICS AND THE MEDIA
Journalists covering high-profile trials need to differentiate
between relevant evidence and courtroom pizzazz, writes Andrew
Cohen, a legal analyst with Fox News and CBS News Radio: B10
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
EXCAVATING THE SUBCONSCIOUS
Painting is like breathing for Herb Jackson, an art professor
at Davidson College, whose abstract works hang in many museums:
B8
CAPTURING SHIFTING MOODS
The book Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography
has been published by the Center for Creative Photography of
the University of Arizona: B68
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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