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INTERNATIONAL
REFORM IN BALTIC HIGHER EDUCATION
Universities in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are changing
their curricula, their faculties, and how they finance their
activities: A39
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AUSTRALIA'S UNIVERSITIES LOSE AGAIN
For the second time in little more than a year, the government
has announced a cut in its spending on higher education: A41
HISTORY IN GLASS
The history of medieval France, and beliefs of medieval
Frenchmen, is reflected in the stained glass of the country's
churches. Preserving that glass is the focus of a project: B2
- THOUSANDS OF ACADEMICS from 13 countries and Hong Kong provided data for a
study on faculty attitudes around the world, published by
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: A39
- A SURVEY OF CHINESE STUDENTS by the official Communist Party
newspaper there found that most are confident in the
country's political situation: A39
- TWO ADMINISTRATORS of a U.S.-financed program on Russian
development run by Harvard University were fired after being
accused of using their posts for personal gain: A42
- GRANTS FOR BELARUS PROJECTS provided by the financier George
Soros's foundation were halted after the former Soviet
republic fined the institution $3-million: A42
- THE WORLD BANK has given Thailand a $143-million loan to
improve its science- and engineering-education programs: A42
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
THE FORUM OF TRAJAN
A new three-volume set from the University of California Press
presents a reconstruction by James E. Packer, a Northwestern
University classicist, of one of the architectural masterpieces
of ancient Rome: A13
JUST LIKE THE REAL THING
A technique developed by Peter J. Ocello, an anatomical
preparator at Michigan State University, may allow scientists
to preserve perishable specimens for at least a decade: A14
THE ROOTS OF POPULAR CULTURE
Its links to the traditional humanities should be visible to
anyone who does not wear ideological blinders, argues Martha
Bayles, the literary editor of The Wilson Quarterly: B4
- A SCIENTIST at the University of Iowa says satellite
photographs prove his theory that thousands of tiny comets
hit the earth's atmosphere daily: A15
- FOSSILS FOUND IN A CAVE in Spain are those of a previously
unknown human species that lived 800,000 years ago,
researchers reported last week: A15
- A CHART AND TWO TABLES SHOW the holdings of major research
libraries in the United States and Canada: A20
- A BIOLOGIST at Providence College has bequeathed his
collection of more than 30,000 rare insects to the
Smithsonian Institution: A6
- HOT TYPE: A18
- 58 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A16-18
- 208 SCHOLARS have been honored with awards; all of them are
listed in this issue of The Chronicle: A45-46
THE FACULTY
GLASS CEILING?
Women with strong backing from their departments have
nonetheless lost recent bids for tenure at Harvard, Yale, and
Stanford Universities: A10
SEARCHING FACULTY OFFICES
Many professors at Santa Rosa Junior College are furious over
an investigation into who wrote letters that harshly criticized
its president: A11
NEW DEFINITIONS
Many scholars who do on-line work find that they risk facing an
unappreciative audience when it's time for tenure reviews: A21
- A CONFERENCE at the University of Chicago will try to answer
the question "Public Intellectuals: Threat or Menace?": A10
- THE NUMBERS in the American Association of University
Professors' long-awaited annual report on faculty salaries
have been described as "not so good": A10
- A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT has dismissed a discrimination
lawsuit against Samford University filed by a professor who
says he was denied a teaching post in the university's
divinity school because of his liberal religious views: A12
- THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES of the City University of New York has
decided that students cannot graduate unless they have
passed a universitywide test of proficiency in English: A12
- BAPTIST LEADERS IN TEXAS have criticized the Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary for rejecting a job candidate
because he advocated allowing churches to decide whether to
ordain women as ministers: A12
- LEON PANETTA, the former White House chief of staff, refused
to cross a picket line at the University of California at
Santa Cruz, where he was to have given a key speech: A6
- ADIRONDACK COMMUNITY COLLEGE'S president resigned after
being accused of plagiarism for the second time in four
years: A6
- THE GRADUATE STUDENT who killed three San Diego State
University professors last year has pleaded guilty to
murder: A6
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
PAYING A PRICE?
Many scholars who work with technology say they receive little
credit in tenure reviews for their on-line activities: A21
NO HARD COPY
Marquette University will publish its yearbook only on CD-ROM
this year. University officials say the institution may be the
first to take that money-saving approach: A22
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
DELIVERING STUDENT AID
College officials and the U.S. Education Department agree on
the need for changes in the system, but not on what those
changes should be: A26
INVESTIGATING RESEARCH MISCONDUCT
Two scientists are among those suing universities for inquiries
that the institutions say were required by federal law: A27
VICTORY FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL
A federal judge ruled that the University of Minnesota does not
have to pay Social Security taxes for its medical residents:
A28
DOUBLE STANDARD?
A lawmaker who attacked the U.S. Education Department for going
easy on a default-ridden college that sought to remain in
federal student-aid programs himself urged such a policy: A28
LURING BUSINESS
States are increasing their reliance on community colleges to
provide the job training needed by industry: A29
- A promise of a new engineering complex at Virginia
Commonwealth University helped attract Motorola to build
a plant in the state: A30
- NINE APPLICANTS with ties to key donors will be admitted to
the University of California at Berkeley next fall, despite
not meeting its admissions standards: A26
- A VERMONT SENATOR HAS ACCUSED the U.S. Education Department
of retaliating against a university official who was
scheduled to testify before Congress about problems with the
department's computers: A26
- OFFICIALS of a rabbinical seminary in New York have been
charged with defrauding the United States and New York State
of tens of millions of dollars in student-aid funds: A31
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
ANOTHER KIND OF COLLEGE
The University of Phoenix, a fast-growing proprietary
institution, is gaining attention and students all over the
United States: A32
TROUBLED TIMES
Paychecks from Edward Waters College bounced after a Florida
court froze the institution's bank accounts because it had
failed to honor a legal settlement: A34
AN INVISIBLE COLLEGE
Radcliffe raises truckloads of cash for Harvard University, but
it no longer exists in any real sense, argues Claire Lipsman,
an alumna of the college: B8
- THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA at Los Angeles opened its
fund-raising campaign with a record-setting goal of
$1.2-billion: A32
- A SECOND REPORT in as many weeks found that giving to higher
education has been on the rise over the past year: A32
- A $25-MILLION GIFT to Texas A&M University came with no
strings attached: A32
- BERLIN HAS AGREED to donate a two-and-a-half-ton section of
the Berlin Wall to Loyola Marymount University: A6
- CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY'S president had his mustache shaved
during "Razor Mania II," which took in more than $1,500 for
a student delegation of the Disciples of Christ: A8
STUDENTS
GENDER DISPARITY
Many private liberal-arts colleges are reporting that larger
and larger proportions of their classes are filled by women.
Some may begin affirmative-action admissions for men: A35
JOB HUNTING AT THE LAST MINUTE
Lycoming College has created a program for new graduates who
lack basic skills to seek employment: A8
- LUTHER COLLEGE IS ATTEMPTING to put an end to an annual coed
soccer game in which participants play in the buff: A35
- ANONYMOUS CRITICS HAVE ATTACKED Dartmouth College's Greek
system as misogynistic in fliers and sidewalk messages: A35
- TWO STUDENTS at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill were given a private graduation ceremony after they
were forgotten at the institution's spring commencement: A8
- JAMES B. POST IV, a quadriplegic, will graduate with a
medical degree from Yeshiva University: A8
- WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of
best-selling books: A36
ATHLETICS
BIG PROBLEMS FOR THE BIG EAST
If its weaker teams do not improve, the football conference
will fall apart, some sports observers predict: A37
- AN ATHLETE at the University of Alaska at Anchorage won the
Miss Alaska beauty pageant. She'll vie for the Miss America
crown in September: A37
- ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY has rescinded its policy barring
the use of the name "Redbirds" for its ice-hockey team: A37
- AN ENGAGED COUPLE have been named co-coaches of the
University of Louisville's women's-basketball team: A37
OPINION & LETTERS
BEHAVIOR IN THE COURTROOM
The amount of social-science speculation that may be introduced
as expert testimony in trials should be curtailed, writes James
Q. Wilson, a professor of management and public policy at the
University of California at Los Angeles: A52
THE ROOTS OF POPULAR CULTURE
Its links to the traditional humanities should be visible to
anyone who does not wear ideological blinders, argues Martha
Bayles, the literary editor of The Wilson Quarterly: B4
LILLIPUTIAN ART
Peter Plagens, the art critic for Newsweek, says some artists
and art schools no longer envy scientists; they envy
bureaucrats: B6
AN INVISIBLE COLLEGE
Radcliffe raises truckloads of cash for Harvard University, but
it no longer exists in any real sense, argues Claire Lipsman,
an alumna of the college: B8
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
LILLIPUTIAN ART
Peter Plagens, the art critic for Newsweek, says some artists
and art schools no longer envy scientists; they envy
bureaucrats: B6
HISTORY IN GLASS
The history of medieval France, and beliefs of medieval
Frenchmen, is reflected in the stained glass of the country's
churches. Preserving that glass is the focus of a project: B2
RECONFIGURING THE OLD MASTERS
Kathleen Gilje's contemporary reworkings of famous paintings
from past eras are on display at Williams College: B56
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