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INTERNATIONAL
TOUGH TIMES IN THAILAND
A financial crisis is forcing changes and delays in many
students' plans, but it may also spur reforms in the
higher-education system: A49
- Most American colleges that are developing projects in
Thailand remain confident despite the financial crisis,
but others are cautious: A50
CHALLENGE IN QUEBEC
A student group is suing over the province's new practice of
charging higher tuition to students from elsewhere in Canada:
A51
IRISH OUTSIDER
Leaked memorandums may have helped, rather than hurt, the
campaign of Mary McAleese, a law professor at Queen's
University who was recently elected president of Ireland: A52
- AN OUTSPOKEN SCHOLAR in Beijing has issued a new appeal for
far-reaching political reform in China: A49
- JAPAN'S EDUCATION MINISTER wants to double the number of
graduate students in Japan by 2010: A49
- ISRAEL HAS PROMISED to find the money to admit 3,000 more
students at eight regional colleges following a protest by
college administrators: A52
- RUSSIA HAS SAID that it will pay back wages owed to
researchers and scientists: A52
- THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS demonstrated in 14 British cities to
protest the government's decision to end free tuition: A52
- SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY may reopen several sexual-harassment
cases because an official of the Canadian institution
conducted the original proceedings improperly: A52
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
SINO-AMERICAN PUBLISHING PROJECT
Yale University Press has just released the first of 75 volumes
in a series on Chinese culture and civilization: A15
- Chinese paintings differ from Western works in terms of
how they are conceived and perceived: A16
DESTINED FOR EXTINCTION
Now that they have a firmer estimate of how fast species are
disappearing, scientists are warning of the effect on society
of species loss and are suggesting preventive measures: A17
- A TEAM OF ASTRONOMERS from Cornell University, McMaster
University, and the University of Toronto have discovered
two tiny moons orbiting Uranus: A12
- BLACK HOLES DISTORT space and time as they suck matter
toward them in an inward-flowing spiral, scientists say: A17
- HOT TYPE: A19
- Roger Celestin and Eliane DalMolin, professors of French
at the University of Connecticut, are the editors of
Sites, a new journal of 20th-century French studies.
- Jyl Lynn Felman, a professor of women's studies at
Brandeis University, has written a new book, Cravings,
about her relationships with her mother and sisters.
- 79 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A18-24
THE FACULTY
A QUESTION OF TEACHING STYLE
Adam Weisberger, a sociologist at Colby College whose personal
approach won him praise, lost his bid for tenure over charges
that he had created a sexually threatening environment: A12
A FORCED LEAVE?
A professor says Quinnipiac College has forced her to take a
leave and has begun proceedings to fire her because she is
undergoing a sex change to become a woman: A14
HELPING NEW IMMIGRANTS
Daniel Lopez, a recruiter for Forsyth Technical Community
College, enters the stores and homes of North Carolina's
growing Latino community to draw students to study English: A10
THE RISKS OF PURSUING A PH.D.
Graduate students are not helpless pawns who are abused and
exploited by an uncaring academic establishment, writes Jules
B. LaPidus, president of the Council of Graduate Schools: A60
INCOMPETENT FACULTY HIRING
There's nothing wrong with the tenure system that choosing the
right candidates in the first place wouldn't fix, writes Cary
Nelson, a professor of liberal arts and sciences at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: B4
- THE FACULTY GROUP at Adelphi University that ousted its
president, Peter Diamandopoulos, this year is seeking
donations to cover its legal bills: A12
- ABOUT 35 FACULTY and staff members at the University of
Rochester have received an anonymous anti-Semitic essay in
the mail: A13
- MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS of the faculty members at Glendale
Community College, in Arizona, have voted no confidence in
their president: A14
- MEDICAL-SCHOOL GRADUATES should be as familiar with the
financing and delivery of health care as with the science,
according to a report: A14
- THE GROUP THAT ACCREDITS teacher-education programs in the
United States has drafted new rules for
professional-development schools: A14
- NEW FACULTY POSITIONS in the City University of New York
system will be tied to graduation rates and other efficiency
standards on each campus: A36
- TULANE UNIVERSITY is denying allegations in a recent article
in Time magazine that a former official at its
medical school committed fraud and faked his own death: A8
- A FEMALE-SEXUALITY CONFERENCE at the State University of New
York at New Paltz featured a sexually explicit show and led
the Governor to order an investigation: A30
- THE TOP POLICY MAKER for public colleges in Massachusetts
has called for an end to tenure, presidential-search
committees, and "meaningless" research: A36
- PEER REVIEW: A53
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
TOYS FOR TOMORROW
Mitchel Resnick, a scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, is computerizing Legos and other playthings to
teach children about technology: A25
LENDING LAPTOPS
A program for graduate and undergraduate students at New York
University is helping meet the growing demand for public
computers in libraries: A26
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
GENEROUS LEGISLATURES
State spending on higher education climbed to a record
$49.4-billion in the current fiscal year, a 6-per-cent increase
over the previous year: A30
- Tables and a map illustrate how much the 50 states are
spending on higher education in 1997-98 and which
institutions are getting the money: A30-33
GOVERNANCE OVERHAUL IN KANSAS
A legislative panel in the state is recommending changes in the
management and financing of community colleges: A34
DEFEAT FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a legal challenge to
California's ban on the use of racial preferences by public
colleges and other state agencies: A34
ELECTION RESULTS
The winner of Virginia's gubernatorial race promised to spend
more on merit scholarships: A35
REPORTING ON ETHNICITY
The federal government will now allow people to check off more
than one box on forms asking about their race, a decision that
could lead to changes in how colleges collect and report such
data: A37
REFINANCING STUDENT LOANS
Republicans in Congress scrambled to save a bill that President
Clinton has vowed to veto unless certain changes are made: A38
SPENDING BILL CAN MOVE FORWARD
Congressional Republicans and the White House resolved a
dispute that had blocked final passage of the appropriations
bill for student aid and the National Institutes of Health: A38
- A FEMALE-SEXUALITY CONFERENCE at the State University of New
York at New Paltz featured a sexually explicit show and led
the Governor to order an investigation: A30
- THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE is providing details about tax
breaks for college tuition on line: A30
- THE TOP POLICY MAKER for public colleges in Massachusetts
has called for an end to tenure, presidential-search
committees, and "meaningless" research: A36
- THE CONNECTICUT LEGISLATURE has decided that colleges may
now permit military recruiting, despite a state law that
bars such activity by groups that discriminate against gay
people: A36
- NEW FACULTY POSITIONS in the City University of New York
system will be tied to graduation rates and other efficiency
standards on each campus: A36
- A STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK trustee resigned after
pleading guilty in a theft case unrelated to SUNY: A36
- THE U.S. SUPREME COURT refused to hear an appeal by the
National Academy of Sciences, which had sought to shield
drafts of its reports from public scrutiny: A39
- THE HIGH COURT also ruled that prosecutors need not prove
that people accused of student-loan fraud actually intended
to cheat the government: A39
- PRESIDENT CLINTON has vetoed $10-million earmarked for two
optical-telescope projects, including one managed by the
University of Arizona: A40
- STUDENT-LOAN DEBT has grown since the federal government
liberalized its financial-aid programs in 1992, according to
two independent studies: A40
- TWO COLLEGE ASSOCIATIONS are pushing institutions to sponsor
programs focusing on race and ethnicity: A40
- THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE has tabled a bill that would
bar the use of racial preferences in federal programs: A40
- NEW REGULATORY ACTIONS by federal agencies; new bills in
Congress: A36
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
HOW MUCH TO SPEND
Many colleges have used Wall Street's bull market to finance
cuts in the proportion of the market value of their endowments
that they permit themselves to spend every year: A41
SEEKING PROFITS FROM INVENTIONS
The University of Mississippi is creating a company to market
its professors' discoveries of new drugs: A43
AN ADMISSION OF FAULT
Yale University's president has endorsed but not signed a
letter in which the institution appears to accept full blame
for the failure of a $20-million gift it returned in 1995: A44
LENDING LAPTOPS
A program for graduate and undergraduate students at New York
University is helping meet the growing demand for public
computers in libraries: A26
REPORTING ON ETHNICITY
The federal government will now allow people to check off more
than one box on forms asking about their race, a decision that
could lead to changes in how colleges collect and report such
data: A37
BALKANIZING THE CAMPUSES
Colleges that require students to live in dormitories should
avoid exemptions that will result in ethnic and religious
separatism, writes Dena S. Davis, an associate professor at the
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State
University: B9
- HUGH M. HEFNER, founder of Playboy magazine, has given
$500,000 to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
for journalism fellowships: A41
- THE UNIVERSITY of Southern California is eliminating its
personnel-services division: A41
- THE PRESIDENT of Morris Brown College has resigned after
months of uncertainty at the institution he helped rescue
from insolvency: A44
- THE WHITE EARTH TRIBAL and Community College, in Minnesota,
has opened its doors, hoping to bring higher education to
American Indian students in the area: A8
- A NORWICH UNIVERSITY trustee is trying to "beef up" the
institution's students and its fund-raising totals: A8
- THE POLICE CHIEF at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill has begun an indefinite leave of absence amid
complaints over the handling of an alcohol-possession
citation issued to a trustee's daughter: A8
- TULANE UNIVERSITY is denying allegations in a recent article
in Time magazine that a former official at its
medical school committed fraud and faked his own death: A8
- CLERICAL WORKERS at Columbia University have ratified a
contract, ending a two-week-old strike: A10
- A TRUSTEE of Wesley College in Delaware collapsed and died
on the campus, minutes before the inauguration of a new
president there: A10
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A44
STUDENTS
SERVICE LEARNING
San Francisco State University is a leader in the movement to
link students' community work with their classes, but some
professors there are dubious about the effort: A45
MINORITY APPLICATIONS
The number of minority applicants to medical schools has fallen
across the United States, but particularly in California and
Texas, which have abandoned affirmative action: A46
- STUDENT-GOVERNMENT presidents say they earn their pay in a
new poll conducted by the quarterly magazine Student
Leader: A45
- THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA says it will no longer reconsider
"early decision" applicants who have been rejected the first
time around: A45
- STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY of Dayton have registered with a
cyberspace employment service, which will try to match them
to jobs related to their majors and interests: A10
- AN ENGLISH PROFESSOR at Wake Forest University, Ralph W.
Black, gathered a crew of 13 students for a 20-hour reading
of Moby-Dick: A10
ATHLETICS
PAY EQUITY FOR COACHES
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued new
guidelines on how to determine whether salary differences
between men and women are justified: A47
- KCJJ-AM RADIO STATION has stopped broadcasting University of
Iowa football games from a bar for legal reasons: A47
- A COACH AT THE UNIVERSITY of Southwestern Louisiana says he
lost his job because his son, a football player heavily
recruited in high school, attended another college: A47
- THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE Athletic Association has approved
new rules for Division I teams' eligibility to play in bowl
games: A48
- BOSTON UNIVERSITY said it would drop its football program
because of its high cost and lack of fans: A48
- A FORMER UNIVERSITY of Central Florida football player was
arrested and other team members were questioned over the
illegal use of cellular-telephone numbers: A48
- OAKLAND UNIVERSITY has suspended its men's and women's
swimming and diving teams from competition because of a keg
party: A48
OPINION & LETTERS
THE RISKS OF PURSUING A PH.D.
Graduate students are not helpless pawns who are abused and
exploited by an uncaring academic establishment, writes Jules
B. LaPidus, president of the Council of Graduate Schools: A60
INCOMPETENT FACULTY HIRING
There's nothing wrong with the tenure system that choosing the
right candidates in the first place wouldn't fix, writes Cary
Nelson, a professor of liberal arts and sciences at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: B4
INSTILLING TRAITS OF CITIZENSHIP
Colleges need to help train people who are capable of meeting
the varying needs of democracies, write Alison Bernstein, a
vice-president at the Ford Foundation, and Jacklyn Cock, a
sociologist at the University of the Witwatersrand: B6
BALKANIZING THE CAMPUSES
Colleges that require students to live in dormitories should
avoid exemptions that will result in ethnic and religious
separatism, argues Dena S. Davis, an associate professor at the
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State
University: B9
IDEOLOGY AND THE AIRWAVES
Public radio is a cultural medium for the
professional-managerial class, writes Richard Ohmann, a
professor emeritus of English at Wesleyan University: B10
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
SINO-AMERICAN PUBLISHING PROJECT
Yale University Press has just released the first of 75 volumes
in a series on Chinese culture and civilization: A15
- Chinese paintings differ from Western works in terms of
how they are conceived and perceived: A16
A GLEAMING MUSEUM OF CLOUDS
The lively museum that Frank Gehry designed for the University
of Minnesota fits none of architecture's usual categories: B2
HUMORAL BELIEFS
The exhibition "Hot Dry Men, Cold Wet Women: The Theory of
Humors in Western European Art" will open at the Arkansas Art
Center this month: B108
- A PROFESSOR at Old Dominion University is taking chamber
music out of recital halls and onto the streets: A8
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE: PAGES A53-59
"BULLETIN BOARD": 94 PAGES OF JOB OPENINGS
DETAILS OF MORE THAN 1,220 AVAILABLE POSTS, including
teaching and research positions in higher education,
administrative and executive jobs, and openings outside
academe: B14-107
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1255 23rd Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20037. E-mail: editor@thisweek.chronicle.com
Copyright (c) 1997 by The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc.
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