From the issue dated October 11, 2002
THE FACULTY
GET IN THERE AND TEACH
Budget cuts have prompted Appalachian State University to send administrators to the classroom -- some for the first time.
ALL DUE RESPECT
It's not just OK, but crucial, for professors to make clear to their students who has the knowledge, and who needs it, writes Miriam Kalman Harris, an associate professor of English at Tarrant County College, in Fort Worth.
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- BIAS DISPUTE: A state panel said the University of Maine System discriminated against a professor by failing to recognize his asthma as a disability.
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- NO MORE 'DOSSIERS': A Web site run by the Middle East Forum did away with a section monitoring the work of professors deemed anti-Israel.
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- TIME FOR REFORM: A report by the Association of American Colleges and Universities says undergraduate education needs reorganization, with tougher standards.
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- CASE CLOSED: A mathematics professor, fired because of his classroom performance, settled his lawsuit against Temple University.
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- PEER REVIEW: A 31-year-old assistant professor of English at Harvard University has become the first woman to rise to tenure through the ranks of Harvard University's English department. ... Goddard College's new president gained his executive experience at Antioch University.
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- SYLLABUS: In a graduate journalism course at the University of California at Berkeley, students build and maintain a Weblog about issues of intellectual property.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
PUBLISH AND PERISH?
Issues of public safety and traditions of openness are at odds as researchers, journal editors, and scientific groups weigh the risks of releasing sensitive information in wartime.
STUDYING STRAVINSKY
Several new books document the composer who "changed the ears of the world" and crafted his own public image as well.
APPLYING HERSELF
In writing a research proposal for a faculty job, Rachel Brem, a visiting faculty member in the scientific-inquiry planning unit at Evergreen State College, rediscovers her inner scientist.
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- POLICING THEMSELVES: Universities should set up procedures to manage conflicts of interest that arise when they have a financial stake in research they sponsor involving human volunteers, says a new report.
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- TOO LATE: A federal court dismissed a lawsuit brought by former jail inmates who accused the University of Pennsylvania of injuring them during research on skin treatments in the 1960s and '70s.
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- PLANETARY AIR BAG: An Oklahoma State University mathematician has proposed a way to nudge off-course any asteroid heading for Earth.
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- HOT TYPE: An ambitious new anthology explores the 1964 Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley. ... ISI Books distributes "student's guides" to several academic disciplines.
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- WHO KNEW? Money makes you happier, research shows. ... Medflies practice their death poses. ... Lab-grown penile tissue performs well in rabbits. ... Researchers identify a third species of elephant in Africa.
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- NOTA BENE: A new biography of Elizabeth Bentley describes the spy's fondness for breaking the rules.
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- NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
'REPORT CARD'
A research center on higher education compares the states on measures including college affordability and student participation.
PUBLISH AND PERISH?
Issues of public safety and traditions of openness are at odds as researchers, journal editors, and scientific groups weigh the risks of releasing sensitive information in wartime.
THE ETHICS OF NATIONAL INTEREST
For rich nations, taking a global viewpoint isn't only the moral thing to do; it's also a prudent security measure, writes Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University.
SELF-RESTRAINT
The federal concept of "sensitive but unclassified" is insensitive to the research environment. Scientists' good judgment is a better protective device, writes Daniel S. Greenberg, a Washington journalist.
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- APPOINTMENT IN THE OFFING: On a U.S. House of Representatives education subcommittee, a replacement for the ranking Democrat, Rep. Patsy T. Mink, who died last month, is expected shortly.
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- CHARTER EXPIRED: The Bush administration has effectively disbanded a federal panel that was developing new regulations to protect human research subjects.
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- BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: An interim program established to track foreign-student visas has encountered some problems.
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- EARLY REVIEW: The U.S. Supreme Court was asked to take up a challenge to a race-conscious admissions policy at the University of Michigan.
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- 'VIEWPOINT NEUTRAL': A federal appeals court ruled that the University of Wisconsin System has succeeded in developing an acceptable way of distributing funds from mandatory student fees to student groups on the Madison campus.
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- MORE ACCOUNTABILITY: Higher education's 50-year-old accreditation system drew wide-ranging criticism at a Congressional hearing.
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- POLICING THEMSELVES: Universities should set up procedures to manage conflicts of interest that arise when they have a financial stake in research they sponsor involving human volunteers, says a new report.
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- TOO LATE: A federal court dismissed a lawsuit brought by former jail inmates who accused the University of Pennsylvania of injuring them during research on skin treatments in the 1960s and '70s.
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- NEXT SESSION, MAYBE: A senator says Congress will not ease financial-aid restrictions this year on colleges that enroll more than half of their students through distance education.
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- DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENT: Language added to an appropriations bill awaiting a House-Senate conference would make it easier to use copyrighted recordings in online courses.
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
HE'S BACK, WITH ATTITUDE
After a six-year hiatus, John R. Silber is in charge of Boston University again, and just as outspoken about what he expects from every constituency on the campus.
GET IN THERE AND TEACH
Budget cuts have prompted Appalachian State University to send administrators to the classroom -- some for the first time.
INTERNAL TURMOIL
The Board of Trustees of Gardner-Webb University backed its president, who had ordered an athlete's grade changed, and demoted two administrators who had criticized him.
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- CALIFORNIA DREAMIN': The University of Wisconsin at Madison opened an office for technology licensing in a much warmer climate.
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- BUY BROWN: Under a new policy, the university's own food and printing providers get first crack at doing business with academic departments and student groups.
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- PAYBACK TIME: Old Dominion University's president has opted to donate her $25,000 raise to a fund to reward faculty and staff members' achievements.
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- THE DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE: Trinity College Dublin is considering legal action over the marked similarities between its famous library and a scene in the latest Star Wars movie.
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- PEER REVIEW: A 31-year-old assistant professor of English at Harvard University has become the first woman to rise to tenure through the ranks of Harvard University's English department. ... Goddard College's new president gained his executive experience at Antioch University.
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- BOND-RATING UPDATE
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- FOUNDATION GRANTS; GIFTS AND BEQUESTS
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
THE NEXT BIG THING?
Some college officials see personal digital assistants as must-have tools; others find the hand-held computers a drain on resources.
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- BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: An interim program established to track foreign-student visas has encountered some problems.
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- DISCONNECT: Citing the USA Patriot Act, the University of California at San Diego has ordered a leftist student group to remove from its Web site a link to the site of a Colombian rebel organization; the student group has refused.
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- THE PLOT THICKENS: A company retained by film studios is peppering colleges with demands to stop students from illicitly downloading movies.
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- NEXT SESSION, MAYBE: A senator says Congress will not ease financial-aid restrictions this year on colleges that enroll more than half of their students through distance education.
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- THE MONEY'S NOT THERE: More colleges than last year are cutting their computing budgets, and the cuts are deeper than before, a survey has found.
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- OPEN-SOURCE TOOLS: Two popular academic-software tools developed at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor are being rewritten in collaboration with other institutions.
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- DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENT: Language added to an appropriations bill awaiting a House-Senate conference would make it easier to use copyrighted recordings in online courses.
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- BOOKMARK: Through a new digital archive called the Parallax Project, the University of Pittsburgh is making six decades of astronomy research available to scientists and armchair astronomers alike.
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- SYLLABUS: In a graduate journalism course at the University of California at Berkeley, students build and maintain a Weblog about issues of intellectual property.
STUDENTS
FORGIVEN
At some colleges, clemency policies discount old failures when calculating students' grade-point averages.
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- TRAFFICKING INDICTMENTS: Federal law-enforcement officials brought charges against New York City students who, while attending college in the South, allegedly bought guns and brought them home to sell.
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- EVALUATING INTEREST: The National Association for College Admission Counseling will look at some colleges' practice of rejecting applicants who seem unlikely to enroll.
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- TV COMES TO CAMPUS: Students and colleges are having close encounters with boob-tube programs this fall.
ATHLETICS
INTERNAL TURMOIL
The Board of Trustees of Gardner-Webb University backed its president, who had ordered an athlete's grade changed, and demoted two administrators who had criticized him.
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- FOUL FANS: A sampling of reports from college football games shows that in the stands, sportsmanship is becoming a lost cause.
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- STAYING PUT: Unlike other colleges in the region, the University of South Dakota has decided not to move up to a higher level of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
INTERNATIONAL
UNIVERSITY OF THE ARCTIC
Colleges in 16 countries have joined in a network to serve the educational and research needs of the circumpolar region.
LITERARY MECCA
The Center for the Study of Early English Women's Writing will open next year in a manor house much visited by Jane Austen.
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- WORLD BEAT: A new database will match retired academics with jobs in developing countries. ... Kidnappers in the Philippines have released four lecturers from Mindanao State University.
THE CHRONICLE REVIEW
APPLYING HERSELF
In writing a research proposal for a faculty job, Rachel Brem, a visiting faculty member in the scientific-inquiry planning unit at Evergreen State College, rediscovers her inner scientist.
THE ETHICS OF NATIONAL INTEREST
For rich nations, taking a global viewpoint isn't only the moral thing to do; it's also a prudent security measure, writes Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University.
HOME IS A BRIDGE
Transitions aren't what we go through. Transitions are what we are, says Gloria E. Anzaldúa, a writer in Santa Cruz, Calif.
ALL DUE RESPECT
It's not just OK, but crucial, for professors to make clear to their students who has the knowledge, and who needs it, writes Miriam Kalman Harris, an associate professor of English at Tarrant County College, in Fort Worth.
CZAR YOU GO AGAIN
The Kirov Ballet's cagey Romanov nostalgia has more to do with commerce than with aesthetics, writes Lynn Garafola, who teaches dance history at Barnard College.
MILLENNIAL CUBA
The photographer E. Wright Ledbetter's vision is not that of the historian or advocate, but one of curiosity and compassion.
SELF-RESTRAINT
The federal concept of "sensitive but unclassified" is insensitive to the research environment. Scientists' good judgment is a better protective device, writes Daniel S. Greenberg, a Washington journalist.
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- DECONSTRUCT THIS: What explains the appeal of the piano in film?
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