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THE FACULTY
BIDDING WARS FOR STAR PROFESSORS
An attempt to lure a top economist from Harvard
to Columbia has focused attention on the tactics
institutions use to build key departments: A12
AFTER THE END OF MANDATORY RETIREMENT
Studies presented at a symposium have uncovered
few problems -- so far -- caused by no longer requiring
professors to retire at age 70: A14
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
A new report says universities have ignored this
fast-growing group in higher education: A14
IMPROVING DEAF EDUCATION
Rachel E. Stone of Western Maryland College brings
personal experience to running the first master's
program with a focus on American Sign Language: A10
JOBLESS IN ACADEME
Kris Fresonke finds wanting the many interpretations
offered of her personal plight as an unemployed
Ph.D.: A56
- MALONE COLLEGE, a Christian institution, has ousted a professor who converted to Judaism: A12
- FACULTY MEMBERS at the University of South Carolina will now
have to pass post-tenure performance reviews every six
years: A15
- WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY students and professors are protesting the
denial of tenure to a black professor: A15
- PEER REVIEW: A51
- Two warring factions in Stanford University's
anthropology department have been granted their wish --
the department will split into two.
- A Brown University professor is
moving to M.I.T. to take a new endowed chair devoted to research on women in the Middle East and North Africa.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
FROM KANT AND HEGEL TO CYBERSPACE
Mark C. Taylor, professor of humanities at Williams College,
combines postmodernism and virtual reality in his new book,
Hiding: A16
INTERFERENCE PROBLEMS
Signals from communications satellites limit radio
astronomers' ability to hear celestial emissions. An agreement
with Motorola will bring some quiet: A20
THE MATHEMATICAL HEART
A computerized simulation developed by two New York University
researchers may help improve prosthetic coronary devices: A30
FAIR USE
Academic groups say new copyright and data-protection
measures moving through Congress would impede
scholarship and education: A33
DISAPPOINTING YEAR FOR SCIENCE
Researchers no longer have high hopes for big
increases in appropriations for key federal
agencies: A34
- A POLICY ON REPORTING potential danger from comets and
asteroids is being sought by the National Academy of
Sciences: A12
- A NASAL-SPRAY VACCINE has been found to protect children
from influenza and flu-related ear infections: A21
- USING CATTLE, researchers have devised a more-efficient
cloning process: A21
- FOR THE FIRST TIME, scientists were able to measure the
magma that builds the ocean floor: A21
- REPORTS OF BABIES' getting rid of HIV were mistaken,
researchers say: A21
- MAMMALS DIVERSIFIED earlier than believed, appearing long
before the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago,
scientists say: A21
- THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has proposed changes in research
rules designed to protect pregnant women and their fetuses:
A35
- NEAL NATHANSON has been named the new director of the
National Institutes of Health's Office of AIDS Research: A36
- A BRITISH PUBLISHER announced it will buy the
educational-publishing division of Simon & Schuster: A42
- HOT TYPE: A24
- The author of a Duke University Press book due out this
fall alleges that the Broadway smash musical Rent
plagiarizes her 1990 novel: A24
- In a new book from Northeastern University Press,
scholars reveal their sometimes-harrowing experiences
doing research "on the edge": A24
- 64 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A22-24
- Nota Bene: A Hut of One's Own: Life Outside the Circle
of Architecture, by Ann Cline, a professor of
architecture at Miami University. The book is
published by MIT Press.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
QUESTIONS ABOUT INTERNET ADDICTION
Kimberly S. Young of the University of Pittsburgh
at Bradford has attracted a wide following with her surveys,
but many scholars doubt their validity: A25
THE MATHEMATICAL HEART
A computerized simulation developed by two New York University
researchers may help improve prosthetic coronary devices: A30
'DIFFERENCES AS INTERFACES'
A fascination with cyberspace is evident in the new book by
Mark C. Taylor, professor of humanities at Williams College:
A16
NEW DEBATE OVER 'FAIR USE'
Scholars who use digital images in teaching and
publications are faced with escalating charges and
elaborate contracts, says Patricia Failing, chair of the
division of art history at the University of Washington: B4
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
THE IMPACT OF PROPOSITION 209
The University of California at Berkeley is struggling
to maintain its diversity while complying
with a statewide ban on racial preferences: A31
FAIR USE
Academic groups say new copyright and data-protection
measures moving through Congress would impede
scholarship and education: A33
DISAPPOINTING YEAR FOR SCIENCE
Researchers no longer have high hopes for big
increases in appropriations for key federal
agencies: A34
PREPARING TO FIGHT
College lobbyists are furious over the way a budget
plan adopted by a House committee would limit funds
available for student aid and research: A35
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
COST CUTTING THROUGH COLLABORATION
Private colleges in Ohio are trying to combine some
operations to save money, while still maintaining their
institutional identities: A41
CONTESTING A WILL
The niece of a wealthy widow who died in April
is challenging her bequests of $100-million each
to the University of Nebraska and Polytechnic University: A43
THE ECONOMIC IMPERATIVES OF ADJUNCTS
Colleges that refuse to hire large numbers of part-time
professors should trumpet the fact as a competitive
strategy, says Pierre A. Walker, an assistant professor of
English at Salem State College (Mass.): B6
- FIVE WOMEN WITH TIES to Harvard have established a new fund
that they hope will encourage women to make large
contributions to the University: A41
- AFTER THREE YEARS as The College Fund/U.N.C.F., the
organization will return to its original name, the United
Negro College Fund: A41
- A BRITISH PUBLISHER announced it will buy the
educational-publishing division of Simon & Schuster: A42
- ROMAN CATHOLIC and Lutheran colleges in Fort Wayne, Ind.,
merged to become the University of Saint Francis, which
will retain a Roman Catholic affiliation. Special
concessions for Lutheran academic programs have been made:
A42
- COMMENCEMENT '98: Ted Turner refused to speak, as did the
president of Zimbabwe; Colgate awarded a posthumous
bachelor's degree; Beloit honored an Alabama town: A8
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A44
STUDENTS
QUESTIONS ABOUT DUE PROCESS
Two men accused of sex crimes at Bates College say the
institution is trampling on their rights: A37
OVERESTIMATING COLLEGE COSTS
The American Council on Education is planning a new
campaign after a survey found that most Americans are
ignorant about the price of higher education: A39
- A STUDENT at Washington College in Maryland won $35,000 for
his senior thesis about Shakespeare: A37
- STUDENTS WHO WORK FULL TIME are more likely to drop out,
according to a new study by the U.S. Department of
Education: A37
- A FORMER PROFESSOR at the University of South Alabama has
been convicted of forging letters of recommendation in his
bid for two national science awards: A8
- OHIO STATE STUDENTS ended a seven-day vigil outside the
president's office after officials there agreed to give them
a role in the reorganization of the Office of Minority
Affairs: A10
- AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, three students were arrested for
trespassing after refusing to leave the president's office:
A10
- STUDENTS AT CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY went "skydiving" without
ever leaving the ground during the school's "Spring Fling":
A10
ATHLETICS
COMPLYING WITH TITLE IX
A seminar on gender equity reflected pressure on the
National Collegiate Athletic Association to examine its rules
on scholarships for female and male athletes: A45
- UNIVERSITY OF UTAH officials fear the effect trade sanctions
against India may have on the expansion of their stadium:
A45
- SIX OF THE BEST U.C.L.A. women's softball players are sitting
out the season because the team has been penalized by the
N.C.A.A. and won't be allowed to compete for a national
championship: A45
- A FORMER BASKETBALL COACH at Boston College has withdrawn
allegations that the institution and its admissions director
discriminated against black prospective athletes: A46
- AN INVESTIGATION of two University of Southern Colorado coaches found "no
evidence" of harassment: A46
- A STATE COURT OF APPEALS rejected the damages awarded to
a former University of Minnesota gymnastics coach who had
sued the university for firing her after her students saw a
videotape of her having sex with her husband: A46
- THE FORMER HEAD FOOTBALL COACH at the University of Central
Florida was sentenced to six months of home detention for
lying to U.S. agents who were investigating his players for
cellular-phone fraud: A46
INTERNATIONAL
EDUCATIONAL MISSION IN ERITREA
The five-year-old country is working to make the
University of Asmara a national institution that will
produce badly needed professionals -- and prestige: A47
COMPETING FOR ASIAN STUDENTS
International-education experts met to discuss the
changing environment for recruiting, particularly given
more activity by Australia, Britain, and Canada: A48
TRANSITION IN INDONESIA
Universities, most of which shut down during
the protests that led to the resignation of President
Suharto, are expected to reopen soon: A49
CRITICIZING FRENCH HIGHER EDUCATION
A government commission has found the system
to be elitist, saying that it does not respond
to the needs of students: A50
PROMOTION DISPUTE IN ISRAEL
Criticism greets a move by the University of Haifa
political-science department to deny tenure to professors
whom it previously had recommended: A50
- THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO dropped a book from its
curriculum following complaints by the country's Minister of
Education that the work ridiculed Muslim beliefs: A47
- ETHNIC ALBANIANS in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo were
given control of a main building at the University of
Pristina when an agreement for sharing the institution's
facilities with Serbs went into effect: A47
- A SENATE BILL would raise the cap on the annual number of
temporary visas for foreigners to work in academe or
industry: A35
OPINION & LETTERS
JOBLESS IN ACADEME
Kris Fresonke finds wanting the many interpretations
offered of her personal plight as an unemployed
Ph.D.: A56
NEW DEBATE OVER 'FAIR USE'
Scholars who use digital images in teaching and
publications are faced with escalating charges and
elaborate contracts, says Patricia Failing, chair of the
division of art history at the University of Washington: B4
THE ECONOMIC IMPERATIVES OF ADJUNCTS
Colleges that refuse to hire large numbers of part-time
professors should trumpet the fact as a competitive
strategy, says Pierre A. Walker, an assistant professor of
English at Salem State College (Mass.): B6
THE MEDIA AND UNIVERSITIES
The mutual hostility between the institutions is
unfortunate, for they pursue many similar objectives,
says C. Peter Magrath, president of the National Association of
State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges: B7
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
AN AVENUE FOR PERSONAL EXPLORATION
Benjamin A. Boretz is retiring from Bard College, but
will pursue his career of advancing, and embodying,
distinctive and influential notions about music: B8
SHARED INTERESTS
An artistic couple shares a teaching job at the University of
Southern Colorado, drawing inspiration for their pottery
and sculpture from the qualities of clay and stone: B2
IMAGERY TO RELIEVE TENSIONS
The exhibition "Celebrity Caricature in America" is at
the National Portrait Gallery in Washington: B64
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