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THE FACULTY
TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
Faculty members who provide key instruction for immigrants say
they hope a new accreditation system will lead to more
recognition in academe: A7
- A popular class at LaGuardia Community College uses dance
as a way to teach people to speak English: A8
RETALIATION CHARGE
A language professor at the University of California at Los
Angeles has criticized the way administrators handled his
report that he had discovered widespread cheating on a test: A9
A THEATRICAL VISION
David Richman, a blind professor at the University of New
Hampshire, brings instinct and a passion for language to his
work directing student actors: A6
TESTING THE NEW TEACHERS
Lawmakers and education boards in many states are trying to
toughen the standards for colleges of education and their
graduates: A27
- A FACULTY UNION at the University of Massachusetts has
agreed to tie higher pay for professors to post-tenure
reviews: A7
- PURDUE UNIVERSITY AGRONOMISTS are making use of a new golf
course that was built for both recreation and research: A7
- A NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY professor lost a lawsuit in which
he had accused the institution of breach of contract because
he has not been paid since 1992: A9
- AT THEIR ANNUAL MEETING, delegates of the American
Federation of Teachers backed a merger that the National
Education Association had rejected: A9
- A LAW PROFESSOR at Florida State University has been removed
from teaching while officials investigate a complaint that
he exposed himself to a research assistant: A9
- PEER REVIEW: A37
- A scholar denied tenure at the University of Michigan is
taking the top black-studies post at Washington
University.
- Northern Arizona University has hired an environmental
philosopher to hold its first endowed humanities chair.
- The University of Oregon is seeking to hire a commuter
couple who specialize in ethnic studies and literature,
respectively.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
CLONES OF CLONES
A breakthrough with mice at the University of Hawaii will
broaden and speed up work in a controversial area of genetics
research: A10
UNDERSTANDING HERBERT MARCUSE
Routledge has just published the first book of a six-volume
edition of the papers of the émigré German philosopher: A11
UNDERWATER RESEARCH
Rutgers University scientists are sending out over the Internet
data collected by instruments placed 45 feet below the surface
of the Atlantic Ocean: A19
- BEETLES ARE SO DIVERSE and successful in evolutionary terms
because they evolved in tandem with flowering plants: A13
- SIGHTINGS of unidentified flying objects merit serious
study, an international panel of scientists has determined:
A13
- PHYSICISTS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have
produced a Bose-Einstein condensate using hydrogen atoms:
A13
- AFTER 11 YEARS OF EXCAVATION, a biblical site in Israel has
been opened to the public: A6
- HOT TYPE: A13
- A savage review in The New York Times Book Review of a
new series of modern translations of ancient Greek plays
has pained the editors of the books at the University of
Pennsylvania Press.
- NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A14-16
- Nota Bene: The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel,
Spy, by Kenneth R. Johnston, a professor of English at
Indiana University at Bloomington. The book is published
by W.W. Norton.
- WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of
best-selling books: A6
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
DILEMMA FOR LIBRARIANS
Public computers at some institutions are being overrun by
people from off campus who want free access to e-mail, chat
rooms, or on-line pornography: A17
UNDERWATER RESEARCH
Rutgers University scientists are sending out over the Internet
data collected by instruments placed 45 feet below the surface
of the Atlantic Ocean: A19
CLAIM OF FALSE ADVERTISING
New York University has sued a company for operating a
World-Wide Web site that claims to show scantily clad female
students "romping" in their N.Y.U. dormitory room: A20
TECHNOLOGY 'WISH LIST'
At a Congressional hearing, community-college leaders spoke of
the challenges they face in trying to keep their computer
equipment and training up to date: A20
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
TESTING THE NEW TEACHERS
Lawmakers and education boards in many states are trying to
toughen the standards for colleges of education and their
graduates: A27
ETHICAL GUIDELINES
Stricter federal regulations are needed to protect people with
mental illnesses who are the subjects of research, according to
a draft report by a federal panel: A28
APPROPRIATIONS BATTLES GO ON
The House of Representatives voted to continue federal support
for the National Endowment for the Arts, but it was poised to
pass a bill denying funds to the AmeriCorps national-service
program: A29
LOBBYING BY AMERICORPS ALUMNI
Former participants in the national-service program are urging
Congress to exempt from taxes the awards designated for college
costs: A31
TECHNOLOGY 'WISH LIST'
At a Congressional hearing, community-college leaders spoke of
the challenges they face in trying to keep their computer
equipment and training up to date: A20
PRECARIOUS POSITIONS
We must allow mothers on welfare to attend college -- and give
them our respect while they study and work, says Sandy Smith
Madsen, a self-described "welfare mother" who is pursuing a
Ph.D. at Emory University: A44
- FEDERAL RULES covering students on welfare are unlikely to
be eased in legislation to extend the Higher Education Act,
according to a Senate leader: A27
- EXPANDED TAX BREAKS on tuition were part of a bill that
President Clinton vetoed for other reasons: A27
- THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Committee on Commerce approved
a bill to bring the United States into compliance with two
international copyright treaties: A31
- PAT ROBERTSON, the chancellor of Regents University and an
outspoken critic of the National Endowment for the Arts,
returned a $1,000 grant that may have come partly from the
N.E.A.: A31
- THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION has released the funds for dozens
of projects, including some at universities, that the
President used the line-item veto to strike out -- a power
the Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional: A31
- SEN. RICK SANTORUM, a Pennsylvania Republican, has won an
exemption for Allegheny University of the Health Sciences
from a law barring students from receiving federal loans if
their university has declared bankruptcy: A31
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
CHANGING TIMES AT TIAA-CREF
The loss of a tax exemption has led the mammoth pension company
to start new ventures and move beyond its traditional base in
pensions: A22
LEARNING FROM A PRO
A former forger told delegates at the annual meeting of the
National Association of College and University Business
Officers that they are vulnerable to fraud: A25
PUSHED OUT
Frederick P. Whiddon, the founding president of the University
of South Alabama, agreed to end his 34-year career there after
members of the Board of Trustees threatened to fire him: A25
- LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, a telecommunications company, has
endowed a chair at Stanford University and plans to open a
research operation in the Stanford Research Park: A22
- A BOOK ON OVERHAULING organizations, by two scholars at
Vanderbilt University, was featured at the recent meeting of
the National Association of College and University Business
Officers: A22
- A CHARITABLE GROUP called Goodwill Industries International
has given universities two valuable artifacts that it found
among goods that had been donated to it: A5
- A MAIL-ORDER COMPANY is selling old card-catalogue drawers
from university libraries: A5
- FOUNDATION GRANTS: A25-26
STUDENTS
POPULAR SUMMER SCHOOLS
More high-school students are signing up for expensive programs
at colleges to get a taste of campus life, and a leg up in the
admissions process: A32
- A NEW BOOK has ranked 20 elite universities as among "the
select": A32
- LATINO STUDENTS lag behind white and black students in their
rate of college enrollment, according to a new report: A32
- THIRTEEN WOMEN said they had been sexually assaulted at a
national black-fraternity event this month in Philadelphia:
A5
- STUDENTS at the Fashion Institute of Technology have
designed uniforms for use by schoolchildren: A5
- WHAT THEY'RE READING: on college campuses: a list of
best-selling books: A6
ATHLETICS
CLARIFICATION ON TITLE IX
A letter from the Education Department tells colleges how they
can insure that aid to athletes is awarded in compliance with
laws banning gender bias: A34
INTERNATIONAL
'JUST SAY FORGET IT'
New Zealand's universities are using slogans and advertising to
combat a serious problem of alcohol abuse by students: A35
STRUGGLING FOR RELEVANCE
Russian programs at universities in Eastern Europe are losing
students and funds while English programs are gaining in
popularity: A36
A WARNING FOR AMERICAN ACADEMICS
A scholar who took a job in Australia is leading a campaign to
inform others of the problems facing professors in that
country: A36
STUDYING BOTH ECOLOGY AND TOURISM
The Southern African Wildlife College is training wildlife
managers whose jobs require more than a high-school education,
but less than a college degree: B2
- FOUR NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS from India were denied visas to
attend recent meetings in the United States and Britain: A35
- AUSTRALIAN OFFICIALS are scrambling to tell prospective
students from Asia that Australia is not racist: A35
- VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY has announced a
$50-million, 10-year deal under which it will create and
manage a new college of design in Qatar: A6
OPINION & LETTERS
PRECARIOUS POSITIONS
We must allow mothers on welfare to attend college -- and give
them our respect while they study and work, says Sandy Smith
Madsen, a self-described "welfare mother" who is pursuing a
Ph.D. at Emory University: A44
MUST AUTHENTICITY BE PARAMOUNT?
The long-standing conventions of art about the Holocaust, and
their heavy-handedly didactic purpose, need re-evaluation, says
Michelle Ephraim, who is completing a Ph.D. in English at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison: B4
AN AMERICAN ICON
Ben Yagoda, an associate professor of English at the University
of Delaware, wonders whether, with a new editor, The New Yorker
will again meet the standards that once set it comfortably
apart from other magazines: B6
- Tina Brown presided over a magazine seemingly hell-bent
on proving the irrelevance of the printed word, say
Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George, both professors at
Amherst College: B7
- MARGINALIA: A5
- EX LIBRIS: B11
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
A CREATIVE HUMAN SPIRIT
The legacy of David Drake, who was a slave, a poet, and a
master potter, is the subject of a show at the University of
South Carolina's McKissick Museum: B8
MUST AUTHENTICITY BE PARAMOUNT?
The long-standing conventions of art about the Holocaust, and
their heavy-handedly didactic purpose, need re-evaluation, says
Michelle Ephraim, who is completing a Ph.D. in English at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison: B4
TRANSCENDENT TERRAIN OF ANDREW WYETH
The painter's landscapes, some of which are on display at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, are the subject of a book by
Cornell University's Michael Kammen: 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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