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THE FACULTY
MERGER TALKS
The two largest unions for schoolteachers and college faculty
members may move this summer to join forces -- a plan
that is drawing mixed reactions from professors: A12
OUTPACING INFLATION
Average raises this year for faculty members at public
and private institutions were 3.2 per cent, according
to a new survey: A14
- A NEW MODERN Language Association program aims to improve
ties between foreign-language instructors at the high-school
and college levels: A12
- A SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY professor invited two convicts to tell
their stories of white-collar crime to business majors: A12
- THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL Arkansas has fired a tenured
professor. He claims it was in retaliation for snorting at
university officials, which he says is his right under the
First Amendment: A15
- ARIZONA STATE'S CONTENTION that academic freedom is not a
right has drawn fire from the American Association of
University Professors: A15
- PEER REVIEW: A53
- A noted Holocaust scholar is joining the staff of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Anonymous letters threatening their recipients with
professional blackmail have been showing up in mail
boxes of critics of Peru State University's president.
- Columbia University recently strengthened its physics
department by hiring two scholars who have won the
highest prize given for work in condensed-matter
physics.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
'THE WHITE SCOURGE'
A University of Texas professor's book on cotton
culture is winning awards for its analysis of relationships
among ethnic and racial groups: A16
'KENNEWICK MAN'
Scientists determined to study a 9,300-year-old
Paleo-Indian skeleton are battling to prevent immediate
reburial of the bones: A18
NEW APPROACH TO ACADEMIC PUBLISHING
Rare-books librarians at the University of Cincinnati and
elsewhere hope to attract some revenue from CD-ROMS based on
material in their collections: A27
ANTHROPOLOGY IN BRAZIL
A Brazilian anthropologist explores the Amazonian
jungle and its quilombos, communities of runaway
slaves' descendants: B2
- DINOSAUR REMAINS UNEARTHED in Madagascar suggest that the
continents were arranged differently millions of years ago
than geologists had previously believed: A22
- A GENE LINKED to high intelligence has been found.
Scientists say the discovery may help them locate other
genes that influence intelligence: A22
- HOT TYPE: A22
- A new Yale University Press book details Daimler-Benz's
role in Nazi Germany's war machine.
- David Thelen, editor of The Journal of American
History for the past 14 years, will step down next
August to concentrate on research and writing.
- 97 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A23-25
- Nota Bene: Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments
of Natural Knowledge, edited by Christopher Lawrence,
a reader at London's Wellcome Institute for the History
of Medicine, and Steven Shapin, a professor of sociology
at the University of California at San Diego. The
book is published by the University of Chicago Press.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
NEW APPROACH TO ACADEMIC PUBLISHING
Rare-books librarians at the University of Cincinnati and
elsewhere hope to attract some revenue from CD-ROMS based on
material in their collections: A27
FREEDOM OF CHOICE
A group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
is criticizing a plan that will require students to own
P.C.'s beginning in 2000: A29
FAKE DEGREES
A company selling phony university diplomas on line
halted its business after college officials caught wind
of its World-Wide Web site: A32
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
TROUBLED COMMUNITY-COLLEGE DISTRICT
Baltimore County's system -- which has faced problems
with financing, governance, and staff -- is trying
to move forward again: A33
DECLARING BANKRUPTCY
A House proposal has renewed a debate over how many
protections should be available to borrowers who have
difficulty repaying student loans: A38
PRIVATE COMPETITION
A company announced that it planned to map
the human genome -- more quickly and for far less
money than envisioned by the federal government: A38
- HIGHER-EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS and banking groups, former
opponents on student-loan legislation, have united to urge
lawmakers to renew the Higher Education Act: A33
- COLLEGE LOBBYISTS attended a fund-raising event to buoy the
campaign of Representative William F. Goodling, architect of
the House bill to renew the education act: A33
- THE SENATE APPROVED a measure to ease tax-reporting
requirements for colleges: A35
- FEDERAL AGENCIES have released plans for regulations that
will affect higher education: A36
- THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN regents unanimously approved a plan
to increase the system's diversity by 2008: A37
- AFTER A POLITICAL OUTCRY, the donor of the "Pataki
Chair" to the Albany Law School has revealed his identity:
A37
- A BILL AUTHORIZING $600-million in new agriculture grants
has been passed by the Senate: A40
- THE SENATE has approved a 10-per-cent increase in federal
support for the National Science Foundation for 1999: A40
- A COLLECTION AGENCY has pleaded guilty to student-loan fraud
and will pay $30-million for filing false claims: A40
- THE SENATE LABOR and Resources Committee approved four
nominees by President Clinton: A40
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
ETHIC OF DISCLOSURE
Even as colleges push to land more corporate support, scholars
question whether conflict-of-interest policies
adequately protect the integrity of research: A41
'VISION FOR THE FUTURE'
The new chancellor of Baltimore County's community-college
system says a complete restructuring will solve its many
problems: A33
STUDENTS
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
More colleges are boasting about efforts to help
students conduct their own projects, but some people
question the rigor of the studies: A45
PAR FOR THE COURSE
A bachelor's-degree program at Mississippi State prepares
students to be golf pros. To get in, applicants must have a
handicap of eight or less: A10
COMPUTER STANDARDIZATION
A plan to require students at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill to own P.C.'S is coming under
fire: A29
- 39 ARRESTS WERE MADE after Miami University of Ohio students rioted
on consecutive nights, damaging property and throwing beer
bottles at police in Oxford, Ohio: A45
- THE THEORY OF UNEQUAL access for minorities to law-school
test-preparation courses has been challenged by the Law
School Admission Council: A45
- A WISCONSIN MAN has been charged with defrauding at least
nine female students at colleges in Minnesota and Wisconsin:
A8
- OHIO STATE STUDENTS staged a sit-in to protest the
university administration's plan to restructure its
minority-affairs office: A8
- THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA System has settled a
wrongful-death suit, agreeing to pay $750,000 to the parents
of a student who was murdered on the Berkeley campus: A8
- SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY students voluntarily went to
eight prisons as part of a criminal-justice course: A10
- UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON graduate students' classes were real,
an audit has found: A10
ATHLETICS
PAR FOR THE COURSE
A bachelor's-degree program at Mississippi State University prepares
students to be golf pros. To get in, applicants must have a
handicap of eight or less: A10
- A PROPOSAL that would lower the limit on football
scholarships was discussed by a committee of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association: A47
- A RECORD NUMBER of students participated in N.C.A.A. sports in
1996-97: A47
- THE ATHLETICS DIRECTOR at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas has been
accused of making racist remarks: A47
INTERNATIONAL
RIFT OVER FOREIGN-STUDY GROUP
Critics charge that a restructuring of the Council on
International Educational Exchange may sacrifice the
organization's mission for financial gain: A49
DEREGULATING TUITION IN ONTARIO
The province has decided to allow universities to charge what
they like for undergraduate-degree programs in seven
professional fields: A51
ETS RESPONDS TO CRITICS
A new, computer-based version of the Test of English
as a Foreign Language is being made more affordable
and accessible to students around the world: A52
PROMOTING AUSTRALIAN COLLEGES
The government plans a marketing campaign to attract
more students from other nations, especially those
in Asia: A52
ANTHROPOLOGY IN BRAZIL
A Brazilian anthropologist explores the Amazonian
jungle and its quilombos, communities of runaway
slaves' descendants: B2
OPINION & LETTERS
DISARRAY IN FOREIGN POLICY
The U.S. political process no longer provides consensus,
and regional differences have led to polarized views, argues
Peter Trubowitz, an associate professor of government at the
University of Texas at Austin: A64
RACE AND DIVERSITY
Proponents of affirmative action need to show that
considering race in admissions promotes overriding
social goals, says Hugh B. Price, president of the National
Urban League: B4
AN ASSAULT ON LABOR'S POLITICAL INFLUENCE
The only thing the Paycheck Protection Act protects
is corporate profits and conservative politicians,
say Kelly Candaele, an elected trustee of the Los Angeles
Community College Board, and Peter Dreier, a professor of
politics and director of the Public Policy Program at
Occidental College: B6
FORM AND CONTENT IN TV NEWS
The inappropriate use of props and an overemphasis on
presentation are part of a fundamental shift in the focus
of many stations, writes Don Heider, a professor of journalism
at the University of Texas at Austin: B8
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
SOOTHING THE SUFFERINGS OF OTHERS
"The Buddha's Art of Healing," an exhibit of Tibetan medical
paintings, is at Emory University through July 12: B60
- A CALVIN COLLEGE art student drove his senior project, a
one-seat automobile, around the campus before turning it in: A10
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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