A PH.D. IN WOMEN'S STUDIES
Six campuses now offer doctorates, and several others are forming similar programs, despite lingering questions about job opportunities in the field: A10

• A list of required courses, special features, and other information on each of the six doctoral programs in women's studies: A11

GUIDELINES FOR CATHOLIC HIGHER EDUCATION
American bishops gathered last week to consider a new draft of a document -- opposed by many educators -- that is meant to insure Roman Catholic colleges' and theology teachers' fidelity to the church: A12

A PAY CONTROVERSY AT GEORGETOWN
After nearly a year of objections from medical-school professors, the university has suspended a policy that linked their salaries to their ability to attract grants: A12

TEACHING SHOULD COUNT
As graduate students and young professors publish earlier, academics must devise new ways to evaluate the newcomers for tenure, says Leonard Cassuto, an associate professor of English at Fordham University: B4

THE WAR OF WORDS is heating up over graduate students' effort to unionize at Yale University: A10

THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION of University Professors has come out in support of the right of graduate students and part-time instructors to unionize: A10

THE UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, the growing proprietary institution, has withdrawn its application to operate in New Jersey: A32

A BROWN UNIVERSITY graduate student was arrested for poisoning two classmates with a stolen radioactive isotope: A8

PEER REVIEW: A43

The University of California at Los Angeles is seeking to lure the literature scholar Sharon Cameron from the Johns Hopkins University.

Skidmore College made an unusual pick for its new president: Jamienne S. Studley, the U.S. Education Department's top lawyer.

BIG SCIENCE AT RISK
As parts of the international space station are set to go aloft, the record of other multinational research projects -- from nuclear-fusion reactors to atomic colliders -- leaves scientists and engineers worried about the future of such efforts: A13

FAILURES IN FOREIGN AID?
Janine R. Wedel, a social anthropologist at George Washington University, argues in a new book that U.S. "econolobbyists" have reduced the effectiveness of programs to help post-Communist nations remake themselves as democratic, market-oriented societies: A16

ORGANIC FARMING has been shown to help trap atmospheric carbon, and thereby counter the pollution caused by burning fossil fuels: A17

RARE DINOSAUR-EMBRYO fossils have been discovered in Patagonia -- the first to be found in the Southern Hemisphere: A17

URINARY-TRACT INFECTIONS may recur because the bacteria that cause them can hide so that they are never completely wiped out by antibiotics: A17

HOT TYPE: A19

The University of Chicago Press has paid a noted economist a $20,000 advance for an autobiography that will describe her sex-change operation.

The University Iowa Press has published an anthology of poetry by physicians, part of a rich tradition of doctors' verse.

NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS: A18-20

• Nota Bene: Israel and the Bomb, by Avner Cohen, a senior research fellow at George Washington University's National Security Archive. The book is published by Columbia University Press.

CONTROLLING THE INTERNET
Debate has flared over a new, non-profit organization that hopes to succeed the U.S. government in overseeing key technical aspects of the sprawling network: A21

SELLING YOUR SCHOLARLY WORK
Dissertation.com and other fledgling companies are helping new doctoral recipients find a paying audience for their unpublished theses: A23

ENROLLMENT FIGURES are producing optimism at virtual universities in the South, in California, and elsewhere: A21

WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY has formed a distance-education alliance with the American arm of Britain's Open University: A23

A WORLD-WIDE WEB SITE created by a professor at Western Kentucky University shares the joys of jazz dance: A25

TWO SOFTWARE PROGRAMS, five electronic mailing lists, and six World-Wide Web sites: A25

MORE STATE FUNDS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Appropriations for 1998-99 will reach a record of $52.8-billion, which amounts to a one-year increase of 6.7 per cent: A26

• Fact File: State-by-state appropriations for higher education in 1998-99, and a ranking of states by the amount appropriated: A27-29

TRAINING CLINICAL RESEARCHERS
Duke University and the National Institutes of Health have crafted a strategy to teach medical scientists and students to design trials, analyze data, and manage projects: A30

SHORTAGE OF FELLOWSHIPS
The U.S. Education Department says Congress has not provided it with enough money to make new awards next fall in its two primary programs for graduate students: A31

BIG SCIENCE AT RISK
As parts of the international space station are set to go aloft, the record of other multinational research projects -- from nuclear-fusion reactors to atomic colliders -- leaves scientists and engineers worried about the future of such efforts: A13

FAILURES IN FOREIGN AID?
Janine R. Wedel, a social anthropologist at George Washington University, argues in a new book that U.S. "econolobbyists" have reduced the effectiveness of programs to help post-Communist nations remake themselves as democratic, market-oriented societies: A16

A NOTED LAW PROFESSOR at Harvard University, Laurence H. Tribe, found a House of Representatives panel lacking in respect: A26

EMPLOYEES of the State and City Universities of New York have been accused of receiving paychecks and unemployment benefits at the same time: A26

THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE says it will not require colleges to report data on non-credit students who apply for new tuition tax credits: A31

THE NATIONAL BIOETHICS Advisory Commission has proposed new rules to govern research involving subjects with mental disorders: A31

THE SAME COMMISSION is now discussing the ethics of research on embryonic stem cells and of creating human-cow embryonic cells: A31

THE OWNER of a beauty school in New Jersey has been found guilty of defrauding the U.S. Education Department in a scheme to keep the school's loan-default rate low: A31

PELL GRANTS have lost half of their purchasing power since 1977, a report says, as the cost of attending college has increased faster than the grants or family income: A32

FLORIDA'S REGENTS have approved new mission classifications for the state's 10 public universities: A32

THE UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, the growing proprietary institution, has withdrawn its application to operate in New Jersey: A32

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA'S Board of Governors has voted to seek greater control over tuition rates, which currently are set by state legislators: A32

A WASHINGTON STATE PANEL has recommended that state colleges prepare for a coming enrollment boom: A32

YALE UNIVERSITY'S Cambodian Genocide Program has been cleared of financial impropriety by investigators from the U.S. State Department: A9

DOUBLE-DIGIT GAINS FOR ENDOWMENTS
The average return for colleges and universities was 18.2 per cent in fiscal 1998, the fourth consecutive year that the figure was above 10 per cent, according to a new study: A33

SETTLEMENT AT ADELPHI
The former trustees and former president reached a multimillion-dollar agreement that will provide the university with more than $4-million in cash and canceled debt: A34

DISPUTE OVER RESEARCH FUNDS
The University of Minnesota will pay the U.S. government $32-million to settle a lawsuit that accused the institution of fraud and misusing federal grants in connection with the development and sale of a transplant drug: A35

A PAY CONTROVERSY AT GEORGETOWN
After nearly a year of objections from medical-school professors, the university has suspended a policy that linked their salaries to their ability to attract grants: A12

THE PROPOSED DEAL to settle lawsuits by states against tobacco companies may provide funds for research on smoking: A33

PRESCOTT COLLEGE has resolved to use more recycled materials in its operations and construction projects: A33

CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY'S faculty has voted "no confidence" in its president: A35

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS has settled a lawsuit by college bookstores over the discounts the publisher offered to retailers: A35

HURON UNIVERSITY has been sold again, to an investment group headed by the institution's chancellor: A35

THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE says it will not require colleges to report data on non-credit students who apply for new tuition tax credits: A31

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY'S president ordered an event to honor New Jersey's Governor, Christine Todd Whitman, to be held off the campus because the Governor supports the right to a legal abortion: A8

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM'S Board of Regents has voted to reopen the observation deck on the Austin campus's tower, the site of a sniper attack in 1966 and many suicides: A8

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY has abandoned a promotional campaign in which it billed itself as "The Independent Ivy": A8

THE APPEARANCE OF JESUS CHRIST in an advertisement on a class schedule put out by Utah State University has stirred controversy on the faculty: A9

WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY has symbolically repaid a 1796 gift from George Washington by contributing funds donated by alumni to Mount Vernon: A9

TWO GRAPHS depict trends in faculty pay and the cost of living and pension money invested in the stock market: A35

FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A36

FRATERNITIES AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT
A non-binding Congressional resolution is being used by Greek organizations that are seeking to restore chapters at private colleges that bar the groups: A37

MORE STUDENTS ARE SMOKING
A study has found that an increase in tobacco use by adolescents early in the 1990s has led to a similar rise on college campuses in recent years: A38

ADVOCATE FOR THE OPPRESSED
Samantha Power, a reporter frustrated by her inability to stop the Chinese and Bosnian massacres she covered, became a law student and policy analyst to influence international decision makers in dealing with human rights: A9

A CULTURE OF DISENGAGEMENT
Students whose parents are highly educated and affluent are more likely to drink, use drugs, and party than less-privileged students, write Richard Flacks, a sociologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Scott L. Thomas, an education-administration expert at the University of Hawaii at Manoa: A48

A CONSERVATIVE GROUP, Accuracy in Academia, is angry over Columbia University's treatment of a recent on-campus event it sponsored: A37

A BUSINESS-NEWS MOGUL'S GIFT will help the Johns Hopkins University increase its undergraduate financial aid: A37

STUDENTS AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY are staging a sit-in over a faculty report that recommended closer cooperation between the American-studies and ethnic-studies programs: A8

WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of best-selling books: A38

A FEMALE PLACE-KICKER who had sought to play football at Duke University had her gender-discrimination lawsuit dismissed: A39

TWO COACHES from Hampton University blamed racism after they were briefly jailed in Lubbock, Tex., on suspicion on being involved in a scam. They were later exonerated: A39

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY was cited for rules violations in its basketball program by the National Collegiate Athletic Association: A39

CASH CRUNCH ON THE WEST BANK
Financially strapped colleges and universities are pressing the Palestinian Authority to fulfill its commitment to support higher education: A41

COLLEGE RANKINGS published in the Canadian magazine Maclean's have sparked an annual debate: A41

ECONOMIC WOES in South Korea are keeping many students from returning to their campuses this fall: A41

INDONESIAN CAMPUSES were calm last week in the aftermath of bloody anti-government demonstrations: A42

THE FACULTY at Acadia University, in Nova Scotia, has voted to demand the president's resignation: A42

PROFESSORS ENDED a two-day walkout at Brandon University, in Manitoba: A42

AN ACCUSATORY AUDIT by a Peruvian government agency has caused turmoil at San Luis Gonzaga National University: A42

THE AMERICAN ARM of Britain's Open University has formed a distance-education alliance with Western Governors University: A23

A CULTURE OF DISENGAGEMENT
Students whose parents are highly educated and affluent are more likely to drink, use drugs, and party than less-privileged students, write Richard Flacks, a sociologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Scott L. Thomas, an education-administration expert at the University of Hawaii at Manoa: A48

TEACHING SHOULD COUNT
As graduate students and young professors publish earlier, academics must devise new ways to evaluate the newcomers for tenure, says Leonard Cassuto, an associate professor of English at Fordham University: B4

LEARNING DISABILITIES
Richard Andrews's daughter managed to complete her education despite a cognitive disorder -- in turn teaching her father, a professor of environmental policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, new respect for his students' abilities and needs: B6

WHEN GIANTS HOLD HANDS
The purchase of the nation's largest book distributor by the largest bookseller will produce fallout for university presses and for authors in academe, says James Shapiro, a professor of English at Columbia University: B10

MARGINALIA: A8

QUOTABLE: B12

• What should English departments require of freshman-composition teachers?: B3

• A world gone bananas?: B11

• University of Phoenix heads East: B11

• Reward professors for productivity: B12

• Higher education for older Americans: B12

STUDYING AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART
David C. Driskell, retiring next month as a professor of art at the University of Maryland at College Park, has pursued two careers: painter and curator: B2

DIASPORA ART HISTORY
"Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection" is on view at the University of Maryland Art Gallery in College Park: B92

THROUGH A DOCTOR'S EYES
John Moses, of Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center, finds that his passion for photography complements his work with teenage parents: B8

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