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THE FACULTY
FINDING A NICHE
An unusual collaborative effort is bringing together top
business schools to provide assistance to institutions with
large minority enrollments: A10
PROMOTING 'CIVIL SOCIETY'
A new report says that colleges can help stop an erosion of
important values by placing more emphasis on liberal
education: A12
HISTORIC CHANGE AT CUNY
A bitterly divided Board of Trustees, at the urging of
Republican politicians, voted to require the City University of
New York's four-year colleges to phase out remedial education:
A26
NATURAL MAINE
Bowdoin College hopes a new center on 118 acres of rocky coast,
farmland, and forest will inspire students and faculty members
in many disciplines: A9
LINGUISTIC TURF BATTLES
Compelling academic and moral arguments can be made for
accepting American Sign Language as a foreign language, says
Lennard J. Davis, a professor of English at the State
University of New York at Binghamton: A60
WHAT ROLE FOR 'DR. KNOW'?
The University of California at Berkeley has appointed a
"professor of knowledge" in its business school -- so
knowledge, it turns out, is money, says Dennis Baron, a
professor of English and linguistics at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: B7
- RHODES COLLEGE has sparked an outcry over its decision to
drop a course on Southern literature: A10
- THE U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY is plotting a new course on how it
teaches navigational skills to midshipmen: A10
- A MAINE PANEL has rebuffed a former Colby College
professor's claim that the institution unfairly denied him
tenure because of his teaching style: A12
- THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI has been ordered to remove
materials pertaining to a sexual-harassment investigation
from a physician's personnel file: A12
- THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION of University Professors has
censured the University of the District of Columbia and
Lawrence Technological University: A12
- A PRESCOTT COLLEGE PROFESSOR has become the first disabled
climber to scale Mount Everest: A8
- A FEDERAL JUDGE has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by
a nursing-home chain against a Cornell University
researcher: A9
- PEER REVIEW: A53
- Florida A&M University's journalism school is in an
uproar over a new requirement that professors have
Ph.D.'s in order to gain tenure.
- Harvey J. Graff, a noted cultural historian, is leaving
the University of Texas at Dallas for San Antonio.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
'MORE GUNS, LESS CRIME'
A new book by the University of Chicago's John Lott is
inflaming the debate over weapons control. The work is based
on extensive statistical analysis: A14
EDIBLE VACCINES
Scientists are using biotechnology to combine farming with
medicine as a way of coming up with novel solutions to health
problems: A15
- A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN by the Hubble Space Telescope may show
the first planet detected outside the solar system: A16
- AN ENZYME synthesized by Yale University researchers appears
to support a theory about the origin of life: A16
- A STUDY published in The New England Journal of Medicine
says that bright lights do not blind premature babies: A16
- THE ERUPTION of a solar flare last summer triggered a
"starquake" on the sun, providing clues to its internal
structure: A16
- HOT TYPE: A18
- Beacon Press plans to reprint debates on progressive
politics that originally appeared in The Boston Review.
- A conservative foundation has committed $3.5-million to
bankroll a new publisher in history, culture, and public
affairs.
- 70 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A17-19
- Nota Bene: And That's the Way It Will Be: News and
Information in a Digital World, by Christopher Harper, a
professor of communications at Ithaca College. The book
is published by New York University Press.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
THE PROFITS OF DISTANCE LEARNING
Faculty members who create on-line courses anticipate
debates with their universities over who owns the course
materials: A21
- A dispute over the contract for extension courses at the
University of California at Los Angeles illustrates the
complexity of defining ownership of on-line material: A23
STUDENT AID FOR DISTANCE LEARNING
Congress is moving cautiously -- some say too cautiously -- on
proposals to ease the rules governing eligibility for grants
and loans: A30
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
HISTORIC CHANGE AT CUNY
A bitterly divided Board of Trustees, at the urging of
Republican politicians, voted to require the City University of
New York's four-year colleges to phase out remedial education:
A26
INVESTIGATING USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS
Research universities are nervous about a lawsuit and a
Congressional inquiry over the use of federal research grants
at the University of California: A27
DISPUTE OVER RESEARCH OVERHEAD
A federal appeals court has ruled that the whistle blower who
sparked an embarrassing scandal for Stanford University cannot
sue the university: A29
STUDENT AID FOR DISTANCE LEARNING
Congress is moving cautiously -- some say too cautiously -- on
proposals to ease the rules governing eligibility for grants
and loans: A30
TEMPORARY FIX ON STUDENT LOANS
Congress has approved a three-month solution to a dispute over
interest rates that has complicated lawmakers' review of the
Higher Education Act: A30
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
RECOVERY PLANS AT KNOXVILLE
The historically black college, led by Barbara R. Hatton, its
president since last summer, hopes to regain accreditation,
erase its debt, and attract more students: A44
THE PROFITS OF DISTANCE LEARNING
Faculty members who create on-line courses anticipate
debates with their universities over who owns the course
materials: A21
STUDENTS
MINORITY STUDENTS
Their numbers rose 3.2 per cent, to about 3,609,000, in 1996,
according to data released by the Education Department: A32
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
The faculty adviser to the student newspaper at Fort Valley
State University says he was fired in retaliation for the
publication's tough journalism: A43
- BAYLOR UNIVERSITY students have shunned the chance to dance
on their campus since the institution ended a ban on
dancing two years ago: A32
- A LACK OF INTEREST among University of Vermont students has
spelled the end of the institution's yearbook: A32
- THE CLASS OF 1998 at Rhodes College buried a time capsule as
part of the institution's 150th-anniversary celebration: A8
- TROY STATE UNIVERSITY students and faculty members are
rallying to keep the institution from changing its name: A9
ATHLETICS
NCAA ELIGIBILITY REGULATIONS
An agreement with the U.S. Justice Department will loosen the
rules that apply to athletes with learning disabilities, and
could lead to broader changes: A47
CHANGING LEAGUES
Eight universities have announced that they will withdraw from
the Western Athletic Conference: A48
- FOR SOME COACHES, getting fired is a profitable move,
earning them more money than many of their employed peers
receive: A47
- THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN at Madison's stadium will get
new artificial turf -- a resolution to a contentious debate:
A47
INTERNATIONAL
NATURAL HISTORY IN ISRAEL
Unique collections of species, reflecting the country's
unusual geography and history, may soon be housed in new
museums: A49
FACULTY STRIKE IN BRAZIL
A labor dispute over wages has left students at federal
universities without classes for two months: A51
PARTY POLITICS IN UKRAINE
With national parliamentary elections approaching, young
Marxists in Kiev, including many university students, have
become exuberant crusaders for the Communist Party: B2
- THE SORBONNE, France's oldest university, marked its 800th
anniversary with pomp, ceremony, and discussion: A49
- AN ISRAELI GROUP for students plans to continue to campaign
for free tuition: A49
- A CHINESE SCHOOL is getting technology aid from graduate
students at Appalachian State University: A49
- RUSSIAN STUDENTS and faculty and staff members protested
overdue wages, cuts in funds, layoffs, and proposed
tuition increases: A52
- TWO STUDENTS DIED in a gunfight on a Bangladeshi campus: A52
- AN ACADEMIC FORUM in Israel was canceled after its organizer
was revealed to have called the late Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin an anti-Semite: A52
OPINION & LETTERS
LINGUISTIC TURF BATTLES
Compelling academic and moral arguments can be made for
accepting American Sign Language as a foreign language, says
Lennard J. Davis, a professor of English at the State
University of New York at Binghamton: A60
MAKING COMPLEX IDEAS PALATABLE
Philosophers should remember that the point of philosophical
reflection is to think more clearly about issues that matter,
says Mark Kingwell, an assistant professor of philosophy at the
University of Toronto: B4
PUBLICATIONS WITH POLITICAL FORCE
Journals of ideas and public policy for the general reader
sometimes have an impact greater than their tiny circulations
would suggest, says Eric Alterman, a columnist for The Nation:
B6
WHAT ROLE FOR 'DR. KNOW'?
The University of California at Berkeley has appointed a
"professor of knowledge" in its business school -- so
knowledge, it turns out, is money, says Dennis Baron, a
professor of English and linguistics at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: B7
AN ABIDING PASSION
What unites students, beyond a desire to fit into American
society and get a good job after they graduate, is music, says
David Rothenberg: B8
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
AN ABIDING PASSION
What unites students, beyond a desire to fit into American
society and get a good job after they graduate, is music, says
David Rothenberg: B8
FINDING HARMONY AMID ANARCHY
The book Indian Contemporary Painting, by Neville Tuli,
has been published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.: B52
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE
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positions in higher education, administrative and executive
jobs, and openings outside academe.
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