EXPANDING THE JOB MARKET
Robert Weisbuch, an English professor turned foundation head, believes his efforts at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation can help academics by creating alternative careers for humanities Ph.D.'s: A16

A NEW VISION FOR THE PH.D.
A project financed by the Pew Charitable Trusts is aimed at reforming doctoral programs: A17

WHITE CANDIDATES NEED NOT APPLY
Union College (N.Y.) has limited a search for four new faculty members to black and Hispanic scholars: A18

MAPPING OUT A FUTURE
Geographers face a debate over the direction of their growing, diverse field, their association, and its two journals: A20

PEER REVIEW
Stanley Fish has offered a University of Illinois at Chicago deanship to Gerald Graff, of the University of Chicago. A leading chemist is leaving Case Western Reserve University for the University of Pennsylvania: A53

TOO MANY PH.D.'S?
Sure, tell graduate students about the tough academic job market, advises John V. Lombardi, president of the University of Florida. And then let them study what they want to study: A64

THE WAR AGAINST THE FACULTY
College administrators and trustees are tilting the balance of power their way, and professors need to fight back, writes Cary Nelson, a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: B4

THE INTERIM PROVOST of the University of Arizona has suggested that professors include warnings on their syllabi about potentially objectionable course content: A16

MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE has fired 13 untenured professors as part of a reorganization plan: A18

TWO PROFESSORS at Virginia State University have been awarded $350,000 by a federal jury that found the institution guilty of discrimination on the basis of national origin: A18

IMPROVING MATHEMATICAL MODELS
Researchers are seeking a "science of uncertainty" to quantify the reliability of their predictions: A19

MAPPING OUT A FUTURE
Geographers face a debate over the direction of their growing, diverse field, their association, and its two journals: A20

A MODEL FOR READING
A company's plan to sell electronic books to university libraries may hold economic promise, librarians and university-press officials say, but it may also frustrate scholars: A29

HOT TYPE
A book of World War II aerial photographs examines the politics of a superior vantage point. The journal Southern Cultures explores gender and race in Gone With the Wind: A26

DATA PRIVACY AT ISSUE
Scholars say the government's new proposal on public access to researchers' data would have a host of negative effects on science: A42

SCIENTISTS HAVE ACHIEVED nuclear fusion in a tabletop experiment, but the feat has nothing to do with the discredited claim of cold fusion a decade ago: A22

AN ENTOMOLOGIST at the University of Delaware has a theory to explain why some insects defend their eggs: A22

PSYCHOLOGISTS SAY they have found evidence that visual imagery in the brain is needed for thinking: A22

HARSH DISCIPLINE fails to ward off misbehavior in preschool-age children, scientists say: A22

ANIMAL-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ransacked laboratories and confiscated animals at the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus: A12

A BIOLOGIST at Kean University has reconstructed the fossilized remains of one of the oldest bony fish ever found: A14

NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS: A24-27

• Nota Bene: No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City, by Katherine S. Newman.

PHI BETA KAPPA has announced the appointment of 13 visiting scholars for 1999-2000: A54

A MODEL FOR READING
A company's plan to sell electronic books to university libraries may hold economic promise, librarians and university-press officials say, but it may also frustrate scholars: A29

DOUBTS ON DISTANCE EDUCATION
Two reports have raised questions about the effectiveness of on-line learning and whether it fails to help people without access to computers: A31

ANIMATION OF URANUS
A computer-generated video of the gaseous planet has revealed unusual characteristics of its rings and rotation: A32

A NEW DISTANCE-EDUCATION MARKET
The University of Nebraska at Lincoln has created a for-profit company to offer high-school courses on line: A32

SURFING FOR DOLLARS
A Web-based contest created by Florida State University and Lexis-Nexis awards its winners full-tuition college scholarships: A32

INVENTIVE PROFESSORS have developed unusual approaches and gimmicks to encourage students to use Web sites devoted to their courses: A29

MICROSOFT HAS REVISED its licensing plan to answer colleges' complaints: A31

A NEWSPAPER in Oklahoma has created a World-Wide Web site for fans of college baseball: A35

SIX RESOURCES ON LINE, three new books on information technology, and one resource on disk: A35

MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS AND RED INK
Lawmakers have been pushing to create the awards in states across the country, but the experience of Louisiana -- whose program is $26-million over budget -- is a cautionary tale: A36

• How to finance states' scholarship programs is the big question. For many supporters of the programs, revenue from state lotteries is the answer: A38

2 NEW TAX CREDITS
With April 15 at hand, college officials are weighing the costs and benefits of two federal programs: A41

DATA PRIVACY AT ISSUE
Scholars say the government's new proposal on public access to researchers' data would have a host of negative effects on science: A42

NEW HATE-CRIME DIRECTIVE
President Clinton has called on the Education Department to collect and periodically publish data on hate crimes that occur at the nation's colleges and universities: A42

POLICY REVERSAL AT STATE DEPT.
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright says she will no longer support a plan that would merge the U.S. Information Agency's academic-exchange and public-relations functions: A52

ARKANSAS HAS LEGALIZED the use of private donations to supplement the state-financed salaries of public-college officials: A36

A WELL-KNOWN PUNDIT in Washington is drawing fire for his lobbying to double the National Institutes of Health's budget: A36

MINORITY FRESHMAN ADMISSIONS have rebounded at the University of California, although its Berkeley campus lags: A40

AT A NATIONAL CONVENTION, community-college officials considered their future needs and roles: A40

BLACK-COLLEGE LEADERS used a national conference to decry attacks on affirmative action and limits on remedial classes: A40

A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT has ruled that the 11th Amendment shields public colleges from some False Claims Act lawsuits: A40

THE U.S. SUPREME COURT has let stand a decision against a student who said he suffered from a test-anxiety disorder: A40

A CALIFORNIA COURT has rejected a job-bias lawsuit by church-affiliated college's former chaplain: A40

NEIGHBORHOOD FEUD
Stanford University's proposal to build more faculty housing on its campus has drawn sharp criticism from many current homeowners: A43

A SINGLE BALANCE SHEET
A proposal by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board would make accounting guidelines for public institutions more like those for their private counterparts: A45

A MODEL FOR READING
A company's plan to sell electronic books to university libraries may hold economic promise, librarians and university-press officials say, but it may also frustrate scholars: A29

2 NEW TAX CREDITS
With April 15 at hand, college officials are weighing the costs and benefits of two federal programs: A41

TIME WARNER has given $2-million to Howard University's communications school: A43

DUKE UNIVERSITY has turned down proposals from two major bookstore chains to manage its campus stores: A43

THE PRESIDENT of Golden Gate University resigned less than two months after the American Bar Association criticized him: A46

THE UNIVERSITY of Cincinnati has received a $70-million pledge for cancer research: A46

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY has agreed to pay $1.1-million to 30 current and former graduate students for letting them enroll in a nurse-practitioner program that was not certified: A14

FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A46

HOUSING-BIAS LAWSUIT DISMISSED
A New York judge has rejected a complaint by two lesbian medical students who were barred by Yeshiva University from living in campus-owned apartments for married students and their spouses: A47

SEMINARS ON THE SLOPES
Colorado Mountain College's ski-operations program attracts students who are drawn to the life style, but the curriculum is not an easy schuss downhill: A14

SENIORS at Agnes Scott College who have received job offers or been admitted to graduate school can ring the campus bell: A12

JEWISH STUDENTS at Syracuse University are divided over a campus sculpture that depicts Moses with horns on his head: A12

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY officials are looking into charges that a top administrator witnessed violent fraternity hazings but did nothing to stop them: A12

A CALIFORNIA STUDENT won $16,000 on the game show Hollywood Squares: A12

CUTTING MEN'S TEAMS
Brigham Young University and the University of New Mexico say the reductions will allow them to be more competitive in other sports, but some coaches blame the requirements of Title IX: A48

SECRETLY FILMED videotapes of college wrestlers in their locker rooms have become Internet pornography: A48

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY has settled a harassment lawsuit in which two former women's tennis players charged that their coach had made unwanted sexual advances: A48

MOSCOW'S TOUGH JOB MARKET
Continuing economic troubles have left many young Russians with no jobs, despite their graduate degrees from Western universities: A49

5 NATIONS SPONSOR A UNIVERSITY
The University of the Indian Ocean is preparing to offer its first degree program, a master's in business administration: A50

POLICY REVERSAL AT STATE DEPT.
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright says she will no longer support a plan that would merge the U.S. Information Agency's academic-exchange and public-relations functions: A52

A RUSSIAN UNIVERSITY has reinstated four American professors it fired in retaliation for the NATO attacks on Yugoslavia: A49

A UNIVERSITY on Okinawa has become the first Japanese national university to dismiss a professor for sexual harassment: A49

A DUTCH GROUP is taking Erasmus University to court for failing to enforce its no-smoking rules: A49

TOO MANY PH.D.'S?
Sure, tell graduate students about the tough academic job market, advises John V. Lombardi, president of the University of Florida. And then let them study what they want to study: A64

THE WAR AGAINST THE FACULTY
College administrators and trustees are tilting the balance of power their way, and professors need to fight back, writes Cary Nelson, a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: B4

ANTHOLOGIES: BAD TEXTS OR 'PALACES OF WISDOM'?
The choices made in compiling the new, 6,000-page edition of The Norton Anthology of American Literature are leaching the pleasure out of reading for students, warns Marjorie Perloff, a professor of English at Stanford University: B6

• Major collections, by their very bulk, awaken students to the vast scope of literature and its cultural contexts, argues David Damrosch, the head of Columbia University's department of English and comparative literature and the general editor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature: B7

MARGINALIA: A12

• What role should non-disabled scholars play in the field of disability studies?: B3

• Students protest against sweatshops: B10

• Discrimination at University of California: B10

• Publishers' catalogues go in the trash: B11

• The real costs of tuition waivers: B11

• The State University of New York's reviews of presidents: B11

• How to measure quality in education: B11

• Sylvan's influence on higher education: B11

• The seven liberal arts and modern curricula: B11

MUSIC FROM SCRATCH
In his introductory course on music composition at Muhlenberg College, Doug Ovens has students make use of shoehorns, egg beaters, and pencil sharpeners, among other instruments: B2

OPERA FOR THE EYES
The work of Judy Levin, a costume designer for the Glimmerglass Opera's production of Handel's Tamerlano, is on display at the Kent State University Museum: B72

THE COLLEGE OF SANTA FE is dedicating a new visual-arts center that will change the look of the institution: A14

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