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Midlevel administrators received a median 3.8-percent salary increase in the 2006-7 academic year, the largest increase in three years, according to an annual survey scheduled for release today by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. Extensive statistics from the survey accompany The Chronicle's report.

A new study by researchers at Princeton University has found that the children of alumni — commonly known as "legacies" — are far more likely than minority students or athletes to run into academic trouble in college if admissions preferences got them through the door.

As the United States and other member countries of the World Trade Organization continue negotiations on a new global-trade agreement in Geneva, about two dozen groups representing American colleges are beseeching U.S. officials to avoid making concessions that would threaten the autonomy of higher-education institutions.

A James Joyce scholar who sued the renowned Irish author's estate last year over copyrighted material by and about Joyce and his family has won the right to use the documents in her research, both online and in print. The two sides reached an out-of-court settlement, lawyers for the scholar announced last week.

Three young entrepreneurs have unveiled a new Web site that they say will help college admissions officers more effectively recruit students. The Web site, Zinch, allows high-school students to post online profiles revealing their talents, and admissions officers to search for students with specific interests.

California State University administrators and unionized faculty members agreed on Sunday to continue negotiations for 10 days in an effort to reach a new contract. Both sides said they hoped the agreement would prevent a systemwide faculty strike.

A tentative agreement was reached on Sunday between the Community College of Philadelphia and its faculty and staff members that could allow students to return to class by Tuesday morning.

Canadian undergraduate students seem more satisfied with smaller, noncommuter colleges than with larger universities, according to Maclean's magazine, which published its university-student issue on Thursday.

Spring commencement speakers have been announced by Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Ithaca College, Marietta College, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College at Perkinston, Monmouth College, Niagara County Community College, Northwest University, Saint Mary's College (Ind.), Tufts University, Tulane University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, Washington University in St. Louis, and Wilmington College (Ohio).

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• Ave Maria U. fires provost, then rehires him as "theologian in residence." (See item)
• Mad Mel Gibson answers campus film critic with passion. (See item)
• Science professors at SMU protest intelligent-design conference. (See item)
• Article examines a college's duty to a suicidal student. (See item)
• Top court in Massachusetts to rule on biomedical lab at Boston U. (See item)

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Fellowships in international education.

The dominance that for-profit colleges enjoy in online education may give way as nonprofit institutions press forward in the marketplace and take advantage of their traditional assets, according to a report scheduled for release this week by Eduventures.

Complete technology coverage

• Officials at the U. of Nebraska at Lincoln ask the RIAA to pay them for time spent on its requests. (See item)
• A Duke graduate finds Internet fame with a beer-related invention. (See item)
• IBM works with professors to make software more accessible to aging and disabled users. (See item)

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If you can convince people that Harvard deserves more money, imagine what you could do for our industry writ large.

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With more students studying abroad, and in places farther afield, colleges try to limit their liability by looking to companies that provide rescue services as well as insurance. Talk online with William P. Hoye, a legal expert at the Institute for the International Education of Students, about the issues raised in this article, in Colloquy, on Tuesday at 2 p.m., U.S. Eastern time.

Students at China's Qinghai Normal University are going into villages in Tibet to preserve old folk songs before the works vanish from memory.

The Stanford prison experiment can help guide society in predicting, and preventing, cruel behavior in our military, penal, educational, and other systems.

Within the decade, value-savvy Gen-X parents will be helping their Millennial kids weigh choices about graduate and professional schools. Will yours be worth their time and expense?

Complete contents of this week's issue

DISCUSSIONS

Talk online with William P. Hoye, a legal expert at the Institute for the International Education of Students, about what colleges must do to ensure the safety of students who are studying abroad, on Tuesday at 2 p.m., U.S. Eastern time.

Scott Leamon, an expert on admissions and technology, will take your questions about how colleges can use new technology appropriately to identify prospective students -- and to impress them. Join us for a live Web chat on Thursday at noon, U.S. Eastern time.

MAGAZINES & JOURNALS

"The Christian university" is in crisis, writes the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, a Roman Catholic priest and editor in chief of First Things, because it is scared of its own identity.

Islamism in Europe is a choice of the frustrated children of immigrants, young people who feel they live in an ethnic and cultural no man's land.

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