SCRUTINIZING MINORITY HIRING
When Wheaton College filled half of its 10 faculty openings with black scholars, some on the Massachusetts campus questioned whether race had played too large a role in the process: A16

REVERSAL IN BIAS CASE
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit found that an economics professor at Florida Atlantic University had not been sexually harassed, even though her supervisor was accused of touching her thigh and repeatedly calling her at night: A19

PEER REVIEW
Harvard University's Carol Gilligan keeps her tenured post while teaching part time at New York University. ... The playwright Anna Deavere Smith leaves Stanford University for N.Y.U., where she will have a joint appointment in the arts and law schools. ... Stanford's new Center for the Study of the Novel lures a director from Columbia University: A14

SYLLABUS
Juilliard Jazz Studies, the music school's first formal curriculum in the field, will consist of a preprofessional program and a bachelor's degree: A16

MONITORING THE MONEY
Harvard Medical School has abandoned the idea of loosening some of its conflict-of-interest rules governing faculty research sponsored by industry: A36

WHAT ROLE FOR THE FACULTY?
A debate at Cornell University illustrates the fears of many professors that the part they play in devising and running universities' commercial distance-education ventures could be minimal: A41

REGULATIONS FOR A NEW ERA
Duke University's Academic Council has approved a policy that sets rules for faculty members' ownership of online courses: A47

ELEVATING CREOLE
Raphael Confiant, a professor at the Martinique campus of the University of the Antilles and Guiana, is part of a group of writers seeking to raise the stature of a language that is gradually giving way to French: B2

LESSONS IN CHARACTER
It's never too late to teach students about values, even in college, writes Arthur J. Schwartz, director of character-education programs at the John Templeton Foundation: A68

WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE?
These days, Daphne Patai argues, threats to academic freedom come mainly from speech codes and anti-harassment policies. The author is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: B7

The American Association of University Professors held the first campus rally in its history to protest recent faculty firings at Bennington College: A19

Federal prosecutors have dropped drug charges against an anthropologist at the City University of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice: A19

The University of Nevada at Las Vegas has agreed to pay $830,000 to settle a lawsuit by a tenured professor it had fired: A19

An association of Asian-American scholars is urging Asian-American scientists to boycott job openings at U.S. national laboratories: A28

University administrators are debating what to do in the wake of a labor ruling that gave a green light for medical residents' unionizing: A32

A Web site provides advice on teaching in cyberspace: A47

GAUNTLETS OF POWER
A glove-like device invented by Stanford University biologists promises to help hypothermia victims, cancer patients, and athletes: A20

HOT TYPE
The author of a new book about the "soul-battering system" of salaried workers was fired suddenly by Physics Today. ... Philosophers at the University of Hawaii will donate book royalties to a scholarship fund for graduate students: A24

NOTA BENE
In Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature, Michael West gives his subject a Thoreau going-over: A22

VERBATIM
Robert E. Lane, author of The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies, speaks about a famine of contentment amid plenty: A21

A STRANGE, COMPELLING KIDNAPPING
Research for a book about the abduction of Irish orphans in an Arizona mining town nearly a century ago provided important lessons about racism today, writes Linda Gordon, a professor of history at New York University: B4

New scholarly books: A22

PROTECTION FOR PUBLIC COLLEGES
University lawyers are applauding a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that shields institutions from whistle blowers' lawsuits, but some say the public will lose out: A27

MORE DOLLARS, FEWER SCHOLARS
Officials of the National Science Foundation are worried by the steady drop in the number of first-time applicants for its grants: A30

BIOETHICS WATCHDOG MOVED
The Department of Health and Human Services has reassigned the head of the office that oversees human-subject research and that recently cracked down on university violations of federal rules: A31

FISCAL FEAR FOR PUBLIC COLLEGES
States are starting to worry about losing tax revenues as a result of the growth of online commerce: A34

Gov. George W. Bush of Texas has agreed to provide more support to public black colleges in the state to settle civil-rights complaints: A27

A lobbying campaign seems to have succeeded in getting Congress to ease federal rules covering space-satellite research with foreign scientists: A27

An association of Asian-American scholars is urging Asian-American scientists to boycott job openings at U.S. national laboratories: A28

The Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives rejected proposed budget increases for the arts and humanities endowments: A32

The nation's universities are producing too few doctorates in occupational safety and health, a report says: A32

The National Institutes of Health has taken control of chimpanzees from a research group accused of neglect: A32

The White House is seeking a 25-percent increase in education benefits for veterans: A32

University administrators are debating what to do in the wake of a labor ruling that gave a green light for medical residents' unionizing: A32

Winthrop University has renamed its College of Education for Richard W. Riley, the secretary of education: A32

California's two state-university systems reached a financing deal with Gov. Gray Davis to ensure consistency in state appropriations and tuition: A33

North Carolina voters will decide in November whether to issue $3.1-billion in bonds to pay for campus construction: A33

The lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, Jane Swift, will abandon a teaching post at Suffolk University that critics said was a sweetheart deal arranged by lobbyists: A33

New bills in Congress: A32

People in Washington: A32

PAYING FOR PERFORMANCE
A growing number of colleges are experimenting with contracts in which they pay companies a set fee in return for guaranteed energy savings: A35

MONITORING THE MONEY
Harvard Medical School has abandoned the idea of loosening some of its conflict-of-interest rules governing faculty research sponsored by industry: A36

CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
Brown University and MCI WorldCom are offering grants to help colleges introduce children from low-income families to technology and science: A37

PROTECTION FOR PUBLIC COLLEGES
University lawyers are applauding a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that shields institutions from whistle blowers' lawsuits, but some say the public will lose out: A27

A LOST OPPORTUNITY
The outgoing dean of the University of Texas School of Architecture, Lawrence W. Speck, explains why he quit over the university's treatment of the acclaimed firm Herzog & de Meuron: B10

A biblical citation helped Valley Forge Christian College gain the funds needed for major campus renovations: A35

The woman who was forced to resign as president of the City University of New York's City College has landed at the helm of the American Association for Higher Education: A35

A leading bond insurer for small colleges is now requiring a greater role in the management of institutions' finances: A38

Four colleges have provided updates on their fund-raising campaigns: A38

In Box: A staff member at the University of Nebraska at Omaha was mystified by a message received from the personnel office: A14

Bond-rating update for May 2000: A39

Foundation grants; gifts and bequests: A39

WHAT ROLE FOR THE FACULTY?
A debate at Cornell University illustrates the fears of many professors that the part they play in devising and running universities' commercial distance-education ventures could be minimal: A41

SAVING TIME, IF NOT MONEY
An Internet service from Sallie Mae's new division lets students pay their college bills online: A44

NEITHER RAIN NOR SLEET
West Virginia Wesleyan College will require students to apply for admission over the Internet: A44

AD-FREE 'PORTAL' SITES
Two dozen institutions are collaborating on software that would let them sponsor personalized information on their home pages for students and employees: A45

COMPETING WITH COMPANIES
George Washington University is pitching to other colleges the software that it created to put its own courses online: A47

REGULATIONS FOR A NEW ERA
Duke University's Academic Council has approved a policy that sets rules for faculty members' ownership of online courses: A47

CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
Brown University and MCI WorldCom are offering grants to help colleges introduce children from low-income families to technology and science: A37

Ten more universities are receiving National Science Foundation grants for high-performance computing: A41

Columbia University and Harvard University are working with a company to put courses online: A42

A Web site provides advice on teaching in cyberspace: A47

CAMPUS CRIME
Alcohol arrests at the nation's colleges and universities rose 24.3 percent in 1998, the largest increase in seven years, while drug arrests increased 11.1 percent, according to a new Chronicle survey: A48

• A shift in federal reporting requirements has raised questions for colleges about the accuracy and fairness of crime statistics about their campuses: A50

• Health officials at some colleges worry about an increase in reports of students' mixing prescription medications with alcohol or illegal drugs: A58

• Fact File: Crime data from 481 colleges and universities: A51
  
  

New students at William Woods University next fall will be able to earn $5,000 tuition discounts for joining clubs or attending campus events: A48

Harvard University is seeking to phase out or change gender-specific commencement prizes, including one presented for "manliness": A48

Three students at Brigham Young University are pulling in $6,000 a month from an online housing-rental service for the 2002 Winter Olympics: A12

Campus pranksters are being blamed for the heist of a giant Mr. Potato Head sculpture that ended up at Brown University: A12

Elon College has changed the nickname of its sports teams, the Fightin' Christians, as well as its mascot, Mr. E: A14

CENSORSHIP IN CAIRO?
Some professors at the American University in Egypt say that they lack academic freedom, and that a revolving-door hiring policy pushes out those with controversial ideas: A59

DEBATE OVER ELITISM IN BRITAIN
The Labor Party has criticized the University of Oxford for rejecting a working-class student whom Harvard University accepted: A60

ELEVATING CREOLE
Raphael Confiant, a professor at the Martinique campus of the University of the Antilles and Guiana, is part of a group of writers seeking to raise the stature of a language that is gradually giving way to French: B2

World Beat: Foreign and American scholars are founding the International American Studies Association; Scottish newspapers are up in arms over double beds at a student residence hall; Nigerian academics are protesting a decision to give six former presidents honorary university posts: A59

Peking University students staged the largest demonstrations in a decade to demand action against violent crime: A61

Serbian students defied a government order to close their campuses: A61

A South African student was killed when police officers opened fire on tuition protesters: A61

Macedonian Albanians shut down a college to protest an education plan that seeks to ease ethnic tensions in the former Yugoslav republic: A61

Ethnic turmoil in Fiji and an attempted coup are threatening the future of the University of the South Pacific: A61

LESSONS IN CHARACTER
It's never too late to teach students about values, even in college, writes Arthur J. Schwartz, director of character-education programs at the John Templeton Foundation: A68

A STRANGE, COMPELLING KIDNAPPING
Research for a book about the abduction of Irish orphans in an Arizona mining town nearly a century ago provided important lessons about racism today, writes Linda Gordon, a professor of history at New York University: B4

WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE?
These days, Daphne Patai argues, threats to academic freedom come mainly from speech codes and anti-harassment policies. The author is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: B7

GRIPES OF WRATH
The fashionable bashing of John Ford and his movies seems fueled by multicultural and feminist points of view, says Thomas Doherty, an associate professor of film studies at Brandeis University: B9

A LOST OPPORTUNITY
The outgoing dean of the University of Texas School of Architecture, Lawrence W. Speck, explains why he quit over the university's treatment of the acclaimed firm Herzog & de Meuron: B10

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• In fighting a union, are N.Y.U. administrators also threatening academic values?: B3

• Historical accuracy in Copenhagen: B12

• Ph.D. programs and finding jobs: B13

• Regulating GEAR UP: B13

• Cartoons by Christopher Burke and Joseph Farris: B12, B13

GRIPES OF WRATH
The fashionable bashing of John Ford and his movies seems fueled by multicultural and feminist points of view, says Thomas Doherty, an associate professor of film studies at Brandeis University: B9

THE ART OF THE BOOK
The exhibition "Themes and Variations: The Publications of Vincent FitzGerald & Company" is at Columbia University: B64

A gigantic sculpture by Tony Smith has prompted complaints from neighbors of the University of Massachusetts at Boston: A12

A sculptor has agreed to make changes to a piece commissioned by the University of New Mexico, in order to collect his fee: A12

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