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THE FACULTY
HAPPY IN 'A CULTURE OF MISERY'
Not all adjunct professors complain of their status. Many of
them freely choose part-time teaching over a full-time
commitment, for a variety of reasons: A8
'ACRES OF SKIN'
In a new book, Allen Hornblum, a Temple University professor
and former law-enforcement professional, tells the story of
experiments by a University of Pennsylvania professor on
prisoners -- many of whom did not know the risks involved: A7
SPIRITS OF THE DESERT
James Judge, a Fort Lewis College anthropologist, devotes
himself to the secrets of the Anasazi, a vanished people of a
New Mexico canyon: B2
FIGHTING 'EDUCATION LITE'
Administrators and professors -- and students themselves -- can
help to deter classroom incivility, says Paul A. Trout, an
associate professor of English at Montana State University at
Bozeman. One solution is to maintain high standards, he
contends: A40
- GUESTS AT A HOTEL in Boston can choose to hear recordings of
Emerson College professors telling bedtime stories: A8
- MORE THAN 700 ACADEMICS have signed a petition supporting
the auto workers' strike against General Motors: A8
- SOME 800 FACULTY MEMBERS at Allegheny University of the
Health Sciences have been told they may lose their jobs: A10
- TWENTY-THREE PROFESSORS have sued the University of Southern
California's medical school for alleged discrimination based
on age: A10
- THE SUSPENSION OF A SCHOLAR has landed the president of
Governors State University in hot water with the faculty
union: A10
- STUDENTS WHO WORK as readers and tutors at the University of
California at San Diego have voted to unionize: A10
- NATIONAL UNIVERSITY will soon offer a master's degree in
"e-commerce": A17
- PEER REVIEW: A36
- The University of Pennsylvania plans a major effort to
jump-start its languishing political-science department.
- A professor who has chronicled the fortunes of academic
superstars is moving from East Carolina University to the
University of Missouri at Columbia.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
WARNING OF A BIOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE?
Continuing declines in the numbers of many species of toads,
frogs, and salamanders are alarming researchers worldwide: A11
THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS
In a new book, Tyler Cowen, a George Mason University
economist, argues that while America's consumer culture is
crass, it's crucial to the survival of what is truly worth
saving: A13
NEW TOOLS FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS
The increasing sophistication of computer-modeling techniques
is enabling a growing number of scholars to study some
aspects of human behavior that otherwise defy analysis: A17
'ACRES OF SKIN'
In a new book, Allen Hornblum, a Temple University professor
and former law-enforcement professional, tells the story of
experiments by a University of Pennsylvania professor on
prisoners -- many of whom did not know the risks involved: A7
SPIRITS OF THE DESERT
James Judge, a Fort Lewis College anthropologist, devotes
himself to the secrets of the Anasazi, a vanished people of a
New Mexico canyon: B2
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
NEW TOOLS FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS
The increasing sophistication of computer-modeling techniques
is enabling a growing number of scholars to study some
aspects of human behavior that otherwise defy analysis: A17
PREFERRED SUPPLIER
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will urge
students to buy from International Business Machines
Corporation when the institution begins its mandatory-laptop
policy for freshmen: A20
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
THE 1998 HIGHER EDUCATION ACT
College lobbyists hope to influence the resolution of hundreds
of differences between the Senate and House of Representatives
versions of the bill to extend the key law: A22
- A comparison of how the current law differs from the
House and Senate bills: A23
FAR-REACHING LEGISLATION
Little-known provisions of a bill to extend the Higher
Education Act would deny eligibility for Pell Grants to
students from three former U.S. territories in the Pacific: A33
APPROPRIATIONS SHOWDOWN
A House of Representatives committee voted to increase the
maximum Pell Grant and to raise spending at the National
Institutes of Health, but President Clinton is angry over the
lack of funds for other programs: A24
LOOKING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY
More states are linking their spending on public colleges to
some measure of how those institutions are performing,
according to a new survey: A26
DEMANDS ON CALIFORNIA'S COLLEGES
The state's public higher-education systems need a new
financial model to replace the "boom and bust" cycle in which
they have operated, a report says: A27
HOW NOT TO HELP THE ARTS ENDOWMENT
The only thing more irritating than the attacks on the federal
agency are the squishy defenses offered by some of its
supporters, says Peter Plagens, the art critic for Newsweek: B4
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
DISSIPATING THE HEAT
When Cornell University engineers devised a cooling system that
would use water from beloved Cayuga Lake, public reaction was
among the university's first concerns: A28
BUDGETS AND PERFORMANCE
States are increasingly basing their appropriations
to public colleges and universities on how well those
institutions are meeting certain goals, a new report says: A26
PREFERRED SUPPLIER
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will urge
students to buy from International Business Machines
Corporation when the institution begins its mandatory-laptop
policy for freshmen: A20
- AT THE ANNUAL MEETING of the National Association of
College and University Business Officers, attendees from
for-profit colleges were rare but not unwelcome: A28
- SOME FUND RAISERS who attended the annual meeting of the
Council for Advancement and Support of Education were still
complaining about rules, adopted by CASE in 1994, for
tallying gifts: A28
- SEVENTEEN STATES have sued Baker & Taylor, a major book
wholesaler, alleging that it overcharged libraries and
schools for millions of dollars' worth of books: A30
- THE PRESIDENT of a public-relations and marketing company
with a strong presence in the college market is buying the
business from its founder: A30
- FISK UNIVERSITY is laying off 19 of its 212 employees: A30
- NATIONAL TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, a non-profit
organization, has formed a for-profit company to market its
distance-learning courses more widely: A30
- BRADLEY UNIVERSITY'S FOUNDER, Lydia Moss Bradley, was
inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame: A6
- THE AMERICAN Speech-Language-Hearing Association, a group
for audiologists, is suing the Audiology Foundation of
America to stop it from granting allegedly "false" degrees:
A6
- THE INDICTED LEADER of a Baptist church group quit the Board
of Trustees of Virginia Union University after coming under
fire from L. Douglas Wilder, a former Governor and the
institution's incoming president: A6
- A WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY trustee is again attempting to
become the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a
hot-air balloon: A7
- TWO GRAPHSdepict trends in faculty pay and the cost of
living and pension money invested in the stock market: A30
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A30
STUDENTS
MONITORING THE KIDS
Wealthy foreigners are hiring a Boston businessman to keep tabs
on their children while they study in the United States: A31
CALIFORNIA'S COMING WAVE
The state is expecting some 500,000 more students
to enroll in college over the next decade, and a new
report says the public universities are not ready: A27
- FRATERNITIES at Arizona State University and the University
of Georgia are facing crackdowns on their fire-code
violations: A31
- A VIRGINIA TECH STUDENT has opened a World-Wide Web site
to publicize the behavior of rude motorists: A31
- ELEVEN STUDENTS at Pennsylvania State University were
arrested for their roles in an alcohol-fueled riot: A6
- FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE students helped raise $10,000
to build a school in South Africa: A6
- DICKINSON COLLEGE students can park using five languages,
thanks to signs that the college recently posted: A7
- THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE of Technology has moved up its
timetable for putting resident advisers in fraternities and
sororities: A7
ATHLETICS
- A NATIONAL COLLEGIATE Athletic Association panel will back a
plan to end preseason football and allow colleges to play a
12th football game in certain seasons: A32
- A FOOTBALL COACH won a lawsuit against the University of
Notre Dame, which he had accused of age discrimination when
it fired him: A32
- THE CITY UNIVERSITY of New York has been ordered to pay a
former coach at Brooklyn College $800,000 for discriminating
against her based on sex: A32
INTERNATIONAL
LOSING U.S. AID
Colleges in three countries that were formerly U.S. territories
-- the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau -- fear
legislation in the U.S. Congress that would end their students'
eligibility for Pell Grants: A33
FOREIGN STUDENTS IN U.S.
Study in the United States offers many diversions to foreign
students, so some wealthy parents have hired a Boston
businessman to keep an eye on their children: A31
- TOURO COLLEGE, in New York City, has announced plans to open
a campus that will straddle the Israel-Jordan border: A33
- EDUCATION EXPERTS from around the globe flocked to the World
Congress of Comparative Education Societies, which was held
recently in South Africa: A33
- BRAZIL'S EDUCATION MINISTER has appealed for an end to a
faculty strike at the country's 52 federal universities: A33
- A U.S. PROFESSOR WAS KILLED in a Cameroon bus crash, and 12
colleagues from Tennessee State University were injured: A35
- BRITAIN ANNOUNCED PLANS to raise spending on science,
technology, teaching, and research in collaboration with a
private foundation: A35
- A PROTEST at the University of Delhi left six students
injured and led to calls for the institution's leader to
resign: A35
OPINION & LETTERS
FIGHTING 'EDUCATION LITE'
Administrators and professors -- and students themselves -- can
help to deter classroom incivility, says Paul A. Trout, an
associate professor of English at Montana State University at
Bozeman. One solution is to maintain high standards, he
contends: A40
HOW NOT TO HELP THE ARTS ENDOWMENT
The only thing more irritating than the attacks on the federal
agency are the squishy defenses offered by some of its
supporters, says Peter Plagens, the art critic for Newsweek: B4
CONFUSING CACHET WITH QUALITY
Most college and university presidents know the limitations of
national ratings, but increasingly they also fear the rankings,
says Robert H. Atwell, president emeritus of the American
Council on Education: B6
IMAGES OF OBSESSION
Unlike Nabokov's novel, the new film version of Lolita does not
separate Humbert Humbert's fantasies from reality, and therein
lies its mistake, says Susan Bordo, a professor of philosophy
at the University of Kentucky: B7
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
ART AS A WAY OF EXISTENCE
Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology
accompanies an exhibition that will be at several museums and
galleries in the next year: B60
- FURMAN UNIVERSITY served as the host this year of the
prestigious Robert Shaw Choral Institute: A6
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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