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THE FACULTY
CHIPPING AWAY AT TENURE
More colleges are using long-term contracts to employ many
faculty members, even those in full-time positions: A12
THE LIFE OF A PLANTATION
Daniel L. Schafer, of the University of North Florida, has
spent years studying the lives of slaves and slave owners: A10
POLITICAL CLOUT PRESERVED
Californians rejected a ballot measure that would have
restricted the ability of unions -- including those
representing faculty members -- to make campaign
contributions: A32
- A NEW REPORT has found major gender disparities among
professors in terms of the number of journal articles they
publish: A12
- THE INTERIM PRESIDENT of Genesee Community College teaches
martial arts to students: A12
- BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY has denied a promotion to a
professor who criticized the institution's policies on
academic freedom and ties to the Mormon Church: A14
- AN ADJUNCT PROFESSOR who pursued a suspicion that a student
had committed plagiarism has now lost his job at Fordham
University: A14
- EMORY UNIVERSITY has been sued by a former business
professor who says that the institution's accusation that he
committed vandalism has wrecked his career: A14
- THE PRESIDENT of Richard Stockton College of New Jersey has
settled a libel lawsuit that she filed against a professor
who had accused her of faking expense vouchers: A14
- FACULTY MEMBERS at Wright State University have voted to
unionize: A14
- A BIOCHEMISTRY PROFESSOR has won a $200,000 jury award from
a pharmaceutical company and two researchers who stole her
research while she was a doctoral student at the University
of California at San Diego: A10
- PEER REVIEW: A45
- Duke University has taken steps to end chaos among
faculty members in its highly regarded English
department.
- The University of Nevada at Las Vegas has hired an expert
in near-death experiences to fill its Bigelow Chair in
Consciousness Studies.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
HUMAN SACRIFICE
In a new book, Boston University's Susan L. Mizruchi examines
the literary significance of an individual's giving way --
willingly or not -- to the greater good: A15
LOST IN SPACE?
The Air Force has quietly resumed development of space-based
laser weapons, but academics say the idea is as flawed now as
it was 10 years ago: A16
THE LIFE OF A PLANTATION
Daniel L. Schafer, of the University of North Florida, has
spent years studying the lives of slaves and slave owners: A10
DON'T TRUST EVERYTHING YOU READ
Universities may be publishing medical information on the
World-Wide Web that is rife with errors, according to a new
journal article: A25
MAINSTREAM NEGLECT OF SCHOLARSHIP
Book-review editors seem to think that academic books don't
travel well and that their appeal is confined to the ivory
tower, says Richard White, a professor of history at the
University of Washington: A52
- A NEW REPORT has found major gender disparities among
professors in terms of the number of journal articles they
publish: A12
- AN EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED deep inside a mountain in Japan has
uncovered unexpected evidence that subatomic particles
called neutrinos have mass: A18
- RESEARCHERS HAVE UNEARTHED the remains of a human ancestor
in East Africa that show characteristics of both modern and
prehistoric human beings: A18
- SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND a gene that, when defective, can cause
deafness in both mice and people: A18
- HOT TYPE: A17
- A scholar's forthcoming edition of letters between
Eleanor Roosevelt and a female friend got unusual
attention recently from the cybergossip Matt Drudge.
- A linguist at Western Washington University has written a
historical novel using one of two pen names she has
employed for her non-academic prose.
- NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A19-21
- Nota Bene: A Theory of Shopping, by Daniel Miller,
a professor of anthropology at University College London.
The book is published by Cornell University Press.
- THE MACARTHUR FOUNDATION has named 29 new fellows: A46
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
SPOKESWOMAN FOR TECHNOLOGY
Lucinda Roy, an artist and professor of English at Virginia
Tech, has become an influential advocate for insuring that
minority students are included in the computer revolution: A23
DON'T TRUST EVERYTHING YOU READ
Universities may be publishing medical information on the
World-Wide Web that is rife with errors, according to a new
journal article: A25
PROTECTING PRIVACY
A computer consultant is trying to draw attention to the
problems that can be caused when colleges post students' Social
Security numbers on World-Wide Web sites: A28
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
RENOVATING CAMPUS FACILITIES
Some state legislatures this year authorized the largest
construction programs for public colleges in decades: A29
A GOOD YEAR FOR PUBLIC COLLEGES
Many states are devoting a larger share of their budgets to
higher education than they did in the first half of the
decade: A30
QUASHING A STUDENT-AID EXPERIMENT
Congress may kill an Education Department program that has
freed a select group of colleges from strict regulations: A31
POLITICAL CLOUT PRESERVED
Californians rejected a ballot measure that would have
restricted the ability of unions -- including those
representing faculty members -- to make campaign
contributions: A32
REPLACING ONE UNIVERSITY WITH ANOTHER
Oklahoma's Governor has signed legislation to dismantle Rogers
University, in Tulsa, and to set up a branch there of Oklahoma
State University: A33
PROTECTING THE PATIENTS
A draft of a federal report faults the system that in theory
looks out for the rights of human subjects in clinical
research: A34
OVERHEAD COSTS OF RESEARCH
The White House has withdrawn a controversial proposal on how
universities would be reimbursed for the expense of new
facilities: A34
- JOHN V. LOMBARDI, president of the University of Florida, is
back in the good graces of his Board of Regents, which at
one point this year seemed poised to fire him: A29
- THE CHANCELLOR of the North Dakota University System, Larry
Isaak, has decided to stay put, weeks after announcing that
he would resign to take another job: A29
- THE NATIONAL HISTORICAL Publication and Records Commission,
which helps finance the publication of historical documents,
has a new chief: A35
- PRESIDENT CLINTON SAID last week that a third of U.S.
colleges and universities were taking part in the "America
Reads" program, in which students teach children how to
read: A35
- EIGHT GROUPS representing scientists, universities, and
patients have offered a blueprint for how the planned rise
in spending at the National Institutes of Health should be
allocated: A35
- A FORMER CHANCELLOR of the University of Texas System, Hans
Mark, is about to be confirmed to oversee defense research
at the Pentagon: A35
- A NEW WORLD-WIDE WEB SITE contrasts state and federal
spending on prisons with spending on higher education: A27
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
REFUSING TO PLAY ROBIN HOOD
Washington and Lee University relies on its endowment -- not
tuition revenue -- to pay for financial aid: A37
MORE FUNDS FOR FACILITIES
Public colleges received the most generous support in decades
for construction projects from some state legislatures this
year: A29
- TIAA-CREF, the huge pension fund for higher education,
played hardball last month, when it ousted the board of a
food-services company in which it holds stock: A37
- STANDARD & POOR'S, a credit-rating company, said that
private colleges' debt ratings have improved because of the
booming economy and bullish stock market: A37
- NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY laid off 11 per cent of its work
force in an effort to help close a $4-million budget
deficit: A40
- STANFORD UNIVERSITY is near a merger with an alumni group
that has been independent since its creation, in 1892: A40
- A FORMER PRESIDENT of the University of Akron has sued the
institution over retirement benefits that she says were
promised to her: A8
- VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY has settled, for $10-million, a
lawsuit over experiments in the 1940s in which pregnant
women ingested radioactive iron: A8
- THE CHANCELLOR of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill leaped off a paratrooper-training tower while shouting
the university's motto: A8
- THE REV. THEODORE M. HESBURGH, a former president of the
University of Notre Dame, has reclaimed the world record for
holding the most honorary degrees: A10
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A40
STUDENTS
PREVENTING ALCOHOL ABUSE
College officials, frustrated by the failure of past programs,
are trying to come up with new approaches to underage and
excessive drinking on campuses: A41
BOSTON U. DEFENDS REQUIREMENT
A federal judge has ruled that the university was within its
rights not to excuse students with learning disabilities from
taking foreign-language courses: A42
GUARDING STUDENTS' PRIVACY
When colleges post students' Social Security numbers on Web
sites, a computer consultant warns, they may cause a host of
problems: A28
PARENTS AND STUDY ABROAD
At a recent conference, attendees discussed how to increase the
safety of study-abroad participants. One solution: Get
students' parents more involved: A43
INTERNATIONAL
SAFETY IN STUDY ABROAD
A new book advises parents on how to find the most appropriate
foreign-study programs for their children. The book was issued
during a recent meeting of international-education officials,
who discussed rising concerns about student safety: A43
- HONG KONG STUDENTS staged a protest march to mark the ninth
anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the first since
China took control of the former British colony: A43
- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S president has asked President Clinton
to seek the release of a Chinese reporter who was detained
while she was preparing to leave for a fellowship at
Columbia: A43
- THE SERBIAN PARLIAMENT has passed a law that curbs
university autonomy by giving the government the power to
appoint rectors and deans: A44
- THE LAW DEAN at Russia's Vladimir State University has been
accused of soliciting bribes from students in exchange for
better grades: A44
OPINION & LETTERS
MAINSTREAM NEGLECT OF SCHOLARSHIP
Book-review editors seem to think that academic books don't
travel well and that their appeal is confined to the ivory
tower, says Richard White, a professor of history at the
University of Washington: A52
LIVING WITH THE BOMB
With the bomb tests by India and Pakistan, we again face the
possibility of nuclear devastation, not as mass-culture
fantasy, but for real, says Paul Boyer, director of the
Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison: B4
TRANSMITTING HISTORICAL TRAUMA
In writing his memoir, Peter Balakian, a professor of English
at Colgate University, says he came to understand that it could
take three generations to bear witness to a tragedy such as the
Armenian genocide: B6
THE DEMISE OF HOLLYWOOD?
Robert Allen, a professor of American studies, history, and
communication studies at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, says the American Film Institute's selection of
America's 100 Greatest Movies can be read as a eulogy for the
art form the group sets out to celebrate: B8
BRINGING THE PAST TO LIGHT
History books that are full of battleships and battalions,
popes and presidents, can gloss over details that hold some
people's attention: B2
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
THE DEMISE OF HOLLYWOOD?
Robert Allen, a professor of American studies, history, and
communication studies at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, says the American Film Institute's selection of
America's 100 Greatest Movies can be read as a eulogy for the
art form the group sets out to celebrate: B8
'A GUERRILLA PERFORMANCE'
The exhibition "Who Are You? Selected Works by Adrian Piper" is
at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College:
B64
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE
"BULLETIN BOARD": JOB OPENINGS
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positions in higher education, administrative and executive
jobs, and openings outside academe.
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