From the issue dated January 10, 2003
THE FACULTY ERODING TENURE Faculty members at major public universities in two states are dismayed at changes that have made it easier for professors to be disciplined or fired. SO WE GATHER Learned societies are a joy because they're so inconvenient. Anything that ungainly must be fueled by passion, writes Marjorie Garber, a professor of English and director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING 'WORLD OF INEQUALITY' The sociologist Richard Sennett reflects on his life and work in a new memoir, which extends his 30-year inquiry into how working-class people define their values and maintain self-respect. FUEL AND FIRE Stanford University's new Global Climate and Energy Project, a $225-million, 10-year research effort, faces considerable scrutiny because of its chief sponsor, Exxon Mobil. DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE The expunging of discredited journal articles by the giant publisher Elsevier Science threatens to hobble researchers and damage the historical record, scholars and librarians say. TOKIN' GESTURES A new book considers the symbiosis between drugs and literature, writes Carlin Romano, critic-at-large for The Chronicle and literary critic of The Philadelphia Inquirer. READING AHEAD Laurence Goldstein, editor of Michigan Quarterly Review, recalls how he became fascinated by literary magazines.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS LOANS AND GROANS A fierce fight over a program that allows borrowers to consolidate their student loans is expected when lawmakers begin work this year on legislation to renew the Higher Education Act. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AS STUDENTS Virginia's attorney general wants to bar them from attending public colleges. Critics say the policy would relegate the immigrants to bad jobs.
MONEY & MANAGEMENT FUEL AND FIRE Stanford University's new Global Climate and Energy Project, a $225-million, 10-year research effort, faces considerable scrutiny because of its chief sponsor, Exxon Mobil. CHAIR MEN OF THE BOARD Several colleges are stretching their budgets to afford the furniture of two Vermont woodworkers. JUST SAY NO Stanley Fish, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, finds that when times are tough, decisions are easy.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE The expunging of discredited journal articles by the giant publisher Elsevier Science threatens to hobble researchers and damage the historical record, scholars and librarians say.
STUDENTS LOOKING FOR ANSWERS One campus spiritual movement promises self-awareness, but some question the means. REFLECTING ON PERFORMANCE How minority students are seen, and how they see themselves, may affect what they achieve, write Camille Z. Charles, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Douglas S. Massey, chairman of the sociology department at the university. RECIPES FOR RECRUITING As admissions directors have become transformed from counselors to marketers to technicians, the process has lost its personal touch, writes Nancy Donehower, an independent college counselor.
ATHLETICS MORE CUTBACKS Three colleges said they would eliminate teams to save money, comply with Title IX, or both.
INTERNATIONAL CREATING FUTURE ELITES The three most selective, well-endowed fellowship programs seek to transform the intellectual legacy of a British imperialist into an idea relevant to the modern world. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AS STUDENTS Virginia's attorney general wants to bar them from attending public colleges. Critics say the policy would relegate the immigrants to bad jobs.
THE CHRONICLE REVIEW JUST SAY NO Stanley Fish, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, finds that when times are tough, decisions are easy. BUILDING BLOCKS Who's to blame for the lackluster designs of our nation's urban spaces -- the architects, their clients, the public, or the education system that taught them all? asks Sarah Williams Goldhagen, a lecturer on architectural history and theory at Harvard University. TOGETHER, BUT UNEQUAL Colleges can counter the erroneous yet enduring stereotypes of African-American intellectual inferiority, writes Theresa Perry, an associate professor of education and vice president of university relations at Wheelock College. REFLECTING ON PERFORMANCE How minority students are seen, and how they see themselves, may affect what they achieve, write Camille Z. Charles, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Douglas S. Massey, chairman of the sociology department at the university. TOKIN' GESTURES A new book considers the symbiosis between drugs and literature, writes Carlin Romano, critic-at-large for The Chronicle and literary critic of The Philadelphia Inquirer. READING AHEAD Laurence Goldstein, editor of Michigan Quarterly Review, recalls how he became fascinated by literary magazines. RECIPES FOR RECRUITING As admissions directors have become transformed from counselors to marketers to technicians, the process has lost its personal touch, writes Nancy Donehower, an independent college counselor. LOVES DIVINE Don Farber's devotion to photography is equaled only by his devotion to Buddhism. SO WE GATHER Learned societies are a joy because they're so inconvenient. Anything that ungainly must be fueled by passion, writes Marjorie Garber, a professor of English and director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University.
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