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THE FACULTY
AN END TO PUBLISH OR PERISH?
Some influential academics are proposing a new system for
evaluating research and granting tenure. The system would rely
less on publication in journals: A12
GUIDANCE ON POST-TENURE REVIEWS
The American Association of University Professors has issued a
new policy, but is standing by its opposition to using such
reviews to revoke tenure: A13
ADDITIONS TO THE AAUP BLACKLIST
Members of the faculty group voted to censure Brigham Young
University, Lawrence Technological University, and the
University of the District of Columbia: A14
HELPING GRADUATE STUDENTS FINISH
Joan Bolker, a writer and psychologist in Massachusetts, has
published a new book about how aspiring Ph.D.'s can complete
their dissertations: A10
KEEPING UP WITH THE STUDENTS
Faculty members at the University of Florida are changing their
courses and teaching styles to reflect a new computer
requirement for undergraduates: A22
A REALISTIC ALTERNATIVE TO TENURE
Colleges can and should devise ways to protect academic values
and quality without offering professors lifetime job security,
writes Louis Lataif, dean of the School of Management at Boston
University: B6
- COLBY COLLEGE has settled a lawsuit filed by a professor who
was accused of an excessively personal teaching style and
was denied tenure: A12
- THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI is offering a graduate business
program in Spanish, said to be the first in the United
States: A12
- A CONNECTICUT COLLEGE BOTANIST hopes to break Americans'
obsession with growing high-maintenance lawns in favor of a
more naturalistic approach to landscaping: A10
- PEER REVIEW: A43
- The University of Illinois at Chicago has made a bid to
hire Duke University's Stanley Fish.
- Oberlin College has hired a gay athletics director.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
WONDER DRUG?
Experts in sports medicine are paying a lot of attention to a
white powder called creatine that appears to increase strength
and muscle size: A15
'THE KING'S MIDWIFE'
A new biography, by Occidental College's Nina Rattner Gelbart,
explores the life of an 18th-century Frenchwoman who campaigned
tirelessly to reduce the rate of infant mortality: A16
ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RADICALS
Newly released documents show the extent to which Canadian
police monitored the activities of student and faculty groups
in the 1960s and '70s: A41
- A LANDMARK STUDY has demonstrated that public-health
interventions can reduce high-risk sexual behaviors that
lead to the transmission of the virus that causes AIDS: A18
- THREE BIOLOGISTS have concluded that male gray tree frogs
attract mates on the basis of how long their mating calls
are. The length shows their genetic superiority: A18
- RESEARCHERS at the Johns Hopkins University say that while
men are three times as likely as women to be killed in a car
crash, female drivers have more accidents than men do: A18
- A STUDY OF NURSING-HOME RESIDENTS has revealed that
one-fourth of elderly cancer patients in those facilities
receive no medication for daily pain: A18
- SOME ARTICLES in medical journals contain enough information
about the supposedly anonymous research subjects described
in them that the people can be identified: A18
- HOT TYPE: A20
- Russian pornography is a growing topic of research and
publications by political scientists, literary scholars,
and others.
- A Hunter College professor of classical and Oriental
studies is writing a book on Russian sex jokes.
- Cornell University's James Garbarino plans a book on the
recent wave of violent acts committed by boys.
- NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A19-21
- Nota Bene: Improvised Europeans: American Literary
Expatriates and the Siege of London, by Alex Zwerdling, a
professor of English at the University of California at
Berkeley. The book is published by Basic Books.
- THE ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION has announced the names of
100 new fellows: A45
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
KEEPING UP WITH THE STUDENTS
Faculty members at the University of Florida are changing their
courses and teaching styles to reflect a new computer
requirement for undergraduates: A22
A NIELSEN-TYPE RATING SYSTEM
More people viewed World-Wide Web pages off the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology's servers than those of any other
university last month, according to a new survey that mimics
the approach of the company that rates television shows: A26
AN END TO PUBLISH OR PERISH?
World-Wide Web sites and on-line archives would play a key role
in scholarly publishing and tenure review under a new plan
being promoted by a small but influential group of academics: A12
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
ON THE FREE MARKET
A number of proposals to overhaul the student-loan system are
based on the idea of letting economic forces play more of a
role: A27
ONEROUS REPORTING?
College officials have objected to Congressional measures that
would require higher-education institutions to provide more
information about their costs: A29
ANOTHER ROUND ON CULTURAL AGENCIES
A House of Representatives panel voted to eliminate federal
support for the National Endowment for the Arts and to keep the
budget for the National Endowment for the Humanities at this
year's level: A29
CONFLICT OVER HONORARIA
The top education official at the National Science Foundation
has agreed to pay $24,900 to settle a federal lawsuit charging
that he had accepted money for making four speeches that were
part of his official duties: A30
FRUGAL TRADITIONS
College leaders in New Hampshire have a tough time reconciling
their goals for their institutions with the state's strong
anti-tax traditions: A32
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
SUING DONORS
Colleges must consider financial and public-relations issues
when deciding what to do about promised gifts that never
materialize: A35
TUITION UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
Proposals in Congress that would require colleges to report
more information about their costs are drawing protests from
college officials: A29
STUDENTS
COLLEGE CREDIT IN HIGH SCHOOL
Some professors fear that Advanced Placement courses and other
programs that allow high-school students to take college-level
courses lack academic rigor. Most students disagree: A39
COMPLAINTS OF CONSUMER FRAUD
The company that conducted a massive mailing this spring to
advertise a $25 campus-based discount and debit card has
folded. Students will get their money back: A40
FREE-MARKET RULES
Key lawmakers in both parties, as well as bankers and
educators, are pushing plans that would sharply reduce the
government's role in student-loan programs: A27
THE WRONG ANSWER TO ALCOHOL ABUSE
The belief that lowering the legal age to 18 will ease campus
problems with student drinking is misguided and dangerous, says
William DeJong, director of the Higher Education Center for
Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, in Newton, Mass.: B6
- A LAFAYETTE COLLEGE alumnus has sued the institution over
its use of his photograph in a financial-aid brochure. He
says the unauthorized use falsely portrayed him: A39
- IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY has settled a First Amendment lawsuit
with an off-campus newspaper that said the institution was
illegally restricting its on-campus distribution: A39
- THE CITY COLLEGES of Chicago system is investigating a dean
and an adjunct professor who gave eight students A's for a
required course they never took: A8
- METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, in Nebraska, has dropped a
course for restaurant employees entitled "Supervising
Hispanic Workers" amid charges of bigotry: A10
ATHLETICS
WONDER DRUG?
Experts in sports medicine are paying a lot of attention to a
white powder called creatine that appears to increase strength
and muscle size: A15
INTERNATIONAL
ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RADICALS
Newly released documents show the extent to which Canadian
police monitored the activities of student and faculty groups
in the 1960s and '70s: A41
- AT A RECENT CONFERENCE, U.S. business schools seeking to
expand abroad were told that they should beware of imposing
Western-style practices on non-Western countries: A41
- BRITISH COLUMBIA will offer tuition credits to students who
perform community service: A41
- A NEW ZEALAND ACADEMIC has won vindication from charges that
he defamed a former Prime Minister of the country. The court
ruling may lead to broader free-speech rights: A42
- ISRAEL PLANS to double the number of its students who
graduate with degrees in computer science or electrical
engineering: A42
OPINION & LETTERS
THE VALUE OF THE LECTURE
Although lecturing has become the bete noire of education
reformers, it remains a powerful and effective educational
tool, argues Kenneth R. Stunkel, a professor of history and
dean of humanities and social sciences at Monmouth University,
in New Jersey: A52
A JEW AT THE GLOBE
James Shapiro says that a performance of The Merchant of Venice
at the rebuilt theater may reveal how much has really changed
since Shakespeare's day. He is a professor of English and
comparative literature at Columbia University: B4
A REALISTIC ALTERNATIVE TO TENURE
Colleges can and should devise ways to protect academic values
and quality without offering professors lifetime job security,
writes Louis Lataif, dean of the School of Management at Boston
University: B6
THE WRONG ANSWER TO ALCOHOL ABUSE
The belief that lowering the legal age to 18 will ease campus
problems with student drinking is misguided and dangerous, says
William DeJong, director of the Higher Education Center for
Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, in Newton, Mass.: B6
THE PLACE OF 'AMOS 'N' ANDY'
The first television program with an all-black cast was a
high-quality sitcom that still warrants an audience, writes
Peter Plagens, the art critic for Newsweek magazine: B9
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
A SPLENDID THEATRICAL TRADITION
Margaret Spillane, a writing instructor at Yale University,
welcomes the efforts of the University of Connecticut and a
handful of other institutions that maintain acting companies: B8
THE GYPSY IN THEM
A flamenco festival attracts hundreds of would-be dancers for
the real thing at the University of New Mexico: B2
'PORTRAITS OF THE DESERT'
Photographs by Bill Wright of Texas's Big Bend region appear in
a new book from the University of Texas Press: B64
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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