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THE FACULTY
A SURPRISING CAREER PATH
Jorge Klor de Alva, a former professor at the University of
California at Berkeley and at Princeton University, is the new
head of the University of Phoenix, the controversial
proprietary institution: A8
AN URBAN-RURAL PARTNERSHIP
Ithaca College's coordinator of teacher education is helping
forge ties with a nationally recognized secondary school in
Harlem: A7
- THE CENTER FOR SEX RESEARCH, at California State University
at Northridge, is planning a conference on pornography: A8
- A SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY professor of English is
sharing credit on a new book with an undergraduate who
helped him write it: A8
- THE U.S. SUPREME COURT has made it more difficult for
students who are victims of sexual harassment by teachers to
hold educational institutions responsible if they were
unaware of the harassment: A10
- A TENURED PROFESSOR at Rutgers University who was accused of
sexually harassing a graduate student has agreed to resign:
A10
- A PROFESSOR at the University of Cincinnati brings Barbie
dolls from her extensive collection to class to teach
students about fashion history: A6
- PEER REVIEW: A35
- Lee Edelman, a leading queer theorist, is moving from
Tufts University to the State University of New York at
Stony Brook.
- Stephen Cohen is leaving Princeton University to join New
York University's department of Russian and Slavic
studies.
- The University of Hawaii at Manoa has decided not to
maintain a faculty position in Japanese-American studies.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
SUCCESS ON THE PRAIRIE
The University Press of Kansas has changed its fortunes by
paying close attention to limits, preferring to retain its
modest size and to expand only gradually: A11
CLIMATIC REVERSAL
The strongest El Nino of the century is giving way to an
opposite weather phenomenon that, scientists say, could bring
destructive Atlantic hurricanes this fall: A12
- SCIENTISTS SAY that two newly discovered species of
dinosaurs with feathers prove that birds evolved from the
prehistoric beasts: A13
- PANELS OF EXPERTS who make recommendations on the use of
certain medical procedures differ widely in their judgments,
according to a study: A13
- BIOLOGISTS HAVE FOUND a bacterial "oasis" in pockets of
liquid water beneath frozen lakes in Antarctic: A14
- ASTRONOMERS SAY the Neptunian moon Triton is getting warmer,
indicating that it may be entering its spring season: A14
- HOT TYPE: A14
- Following the recent announcement of Carlos Castaneda's
death, the University of California Press is rushing into
print a 30th-anniversary edition of his most famous book.
- Electronic journals are making their mark with scholars,
as a political scientist interested in conspiracy
theories and alien invasions recently found.
- NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A15-16
- Nota Bene: Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory, and the Perils
of Looking Back, by Janice Haaken, a professor of
psychology at Portland State University. The book is
published by Rutgers University Press.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE IN TEXTBOOKS
The World-Wide Web has opened up new sales techniques for
college bookstores, but new on-line competitors are challenging
their campus markets: A17
ACCESS TO A HUGE DATA BASE
Lexis-Nexis has struck a $4-million deal with libraries at 600
colleges and universities to provide a limited form of its
document service to their students and faculty members: A20
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
BUDGET MOVES AHEAD IN CONGRESS
The National Institutes of Health and National Science
Foundation are faring well; AmeriCorps and some education
programs are not: A21
MIXED SIGNALS ON AGRICULTURE RESEARCH
President Clinton signed a measure to expand grants awarded
competitively, but the House of Representatives passed a bill
that would shift some of the money elsewhere: A23
A DEAL FOR BORROWERS
The Clinton Administration is planning a temporary cut in the
interest rate the federal government charges people who are
refinancing student loans through the direct-lending program:
A23
FIRST AMENDMENT CHALLENGE REJECTED
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law requiring the National
Endowment for the Arts to consider a project's "decency" before
awarding it a grant: A24
MAKING COMMUNITY COLLEGE FREE
A proposal in North Carolina is part of a national debate on
whether eliminating tuition attracts students or diverts state
funds: A25
- THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA has raised eyebrows by hiring the
state's Lieutenant Governor to fill a key post when her
term in office expires: A21
- A VOTE BY THE BOARD of the City University of New York to
phase out remedial education at many CUNY colleges has
prompted two of them to look into merging: A21
- THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION has agreed to pay $95,400 to
settle a white student's lawsuit that charged the agency
with discriminating against him based on his race: A24
- A PLAN TO REQUIRE colleges to pay for services to some
disabled students has been dropped from a job-training bill
being considered by Congress: A24
- PRESIDENT CLINTON has nominated a University of New Mexico
official to head the Food and Drug Administration: A24
- LOUISIANA'S SUPREME COURT has restricted law clinics that
serve low-income people, in a ruling on a case involving
Tulane University's Environmental Law Clinic: A25
- WEST VIRGINIA has been sued by two medical-school professors
at West Virginia University over the state's recently
enacted ban on late-term abortions: A25
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
'APOSTATE' AT THE HELM
The University of Phoenix, the for-profit institution that makes
traditional academe nervous, has an unlikely leader -- an
anthropologist grounded in postmodern theory: A8
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE IN TEXTBOOKS
The World-Wide Web has opened up new sales techniques for
college bookstores, but new on-line competitors are challenging
their campus markets: A17
STUDENTS
LAWSUIT OVER HOUSING POLICY
Two lesbian students have challenged Yeshiva University's
medical school for refusing to allow them to share campus
apartments with their partners: A27
A PLAN FOR FREE TUITION
North Carolina's Lieutenant Governor has proposed that
the state increase its support for education so that
many students can attend two-year colleges free: A25
FROM ITHACA TO HARLEM
A rural college is building a relationship with a nationally
recognized inner-city school, seeking to help students at both
institutions: A7
- A GUILFORD COLLEGE STUDENT who reported being the victim of
a racial attack has apologized: A27
- A SURVEY HAS FOUND that students do not spend irresponsibly,
despite the widespread assumption that they do: A27
- A TABLE SHOWS projected college enrollments, degrees
conferred, and high-school graduates from 1997 to 2008: A28
- THE U.S. SUPREME COURT has made it more difficult for
students who are victims of sexual harassment by teachers to
hold educational institutions responsible if they were
unaware of the harassment: A10
- A DISABLED STUDENT won a $730,000 judgment against a trade
school in Wyoming for violations of the Americans With
Disabilities Act: A6
- A STUDENT at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has
wired symphony conductors to measure their movements: A6
- CLEMSON UNIVERSITY'S provost flew in an F-16 fighter jet to
encourage more students to take advantage of the Air Force
R.O.T.C. program there: A7
- WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of
best-selling books: A7
ATHLETICS
WHITE AT THE TOP
Despite their numbers at other levels of college sports, very
few black people have broken through to become athletics
directors in major programs: A29
- CEDRIC W. DEMPSEY, president of the National Collegiate
Athletic Association, received $647,000 in salary, benefits,
and deferred compensation last year: A29
- EIGHT INSTITUTIONS that withdrew from the Western Athletic
Conference are seeking a name for their new conference: A29
- A FEDERAL JUDGE has granted preliminary approval for a
settlement of the remaining claims in Brown University's
Title IX case: A31
- THE COMMISSIONER of the Big Ten Conference has made a series
of proposals to cool the torrid climate in recruiting, but
small institutions said they would be hurt by the plan: A31
INTERNATIONAL
HUMAN RIGHTS IN UGANDA
At a center at Makerere University, students and scholars work
to keep history from repeating itself: A33
RETRIEVING LOST HISTORY
The Mayibuye Centre for History and Culture at South Africa's
University of the Western Cape hopes to fill in the gaps in the
country's collective memory of the apartheid era: B2
- SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES will get help from the United
Negro College Fund thanks to a grant from the U.S. Agency
for International Development: A33
- THE U.S. INFORMATION AGENCY has eased the rules governing
the ability of some Asian students to work, as a way of
helping them remain in school despite the economic turmoil
in their homelands: A33
- THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO has issued new fund-raising
guidelines in the midst of a $400-million (Canadian)
capital campaign: A34
- THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD has selected a different site for
its business school: A34
- JAPAN HAS INCREASED its financial aid for 6,000 students
from Asian countries beset by economic crises: A34
OPINION & LETTERS
DEFENDING GAY STUDIES
Faced with ridicule and misrepresentation by the news media,
scholars must work harder than ever to make the case for the
field, says George Chauncey, a professor of history and chair
of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project of the Center for Gender
Studies at the University of Chicago: A40
THE STUDY OF POPULAR CULTURE
In an examination of six recent scholarly works, Michael
Kammen, a professor of American history and culture at Cornell
University, finds that the field is thriving but lacks cohesion
and direction: B4
THE CHALLENGES OF GENETICS RESEARCH
Thirteen scholars and policy makers describe what they believe
to be the most pressing legal, ethical, and scientific issues
in the field: B6
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
FIRST AMENDMENT CHALLENGE REJECTED
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law requiring the National
Endowment for the Arts to consider a project's "decency" before
awarding it a grant: A24
'REJOICE WHEN YOU DIE'
Jazz funerals in New Orleans are the topic of a new book, with
text and photographs, from the Louisiana State University
Press: B56
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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