FILLING A SHORTAGE
Programs at Bethune-Cookman College and the University of South Florida train black men to work in special-education classes, where many black children need advocates and role models: A12

DIFFERENCES IN FACULTY PAY
A survey of current salaries documents continuing gaps among academics, based on their fields and the types of their institutions: A14

• Fact File: Average faculty salaries in selected fields at four-year institutions, 1998-99: A14

PEER REVIEW
The president of the State University of New York at Stony Brook has scrapped all job searches in its embattled English department. Oprah Winfrey has agreed to teach a course in management leadership at Northwestern University: A53

THE HUMANITIES LAB
Imagine this, suggests Cathy N. Davidson: ideas evolving not in response to adversarial diatribes, but in a collaborative process, like that of science. The author is vice-provost for interdisciplinary studies and a professor of English at Duke University: B4

A SCALE-DOWN PLAN to revamp Rice University's curriculum was approved, just months after an initial plan was overwhelmingly rejected: A12

A LAW LECTURER at Villanova University and her students defeated an appeal mounted by Harvard University's Alan Dershowitz of a notorious murder: A12

A CONTROVERSIAL feminist theologian at Boston College, Mary Daly, disputes the college's assertion that she has retired: A8

TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY has dedicated a National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care: A10

AMERICANS AND THE HOLOCAUST
Why are we so interested in the Nazis' crimes? In a new book, Peter Novick, a historian at the University of Chicago, argues that the atrocities serve as an organizing tool for dealing with other problems: A15

PUBLIC HEALTH IN NAZI GERMANY
Robert N. Proctor, a historian of science at Pennsylvania State University, analyzes in a forthcoming book the Third Reich's promotion of preventive medicine, and concludes that it fostered research that looks strikingly like that of today: A16

PSYCHOLOGY JOURNAL IS CRITICIZED
Conservative and religious groups have condemned a paper, published last year in Psychological Bulletin, in which researchers argued that not all instances of sex between adults and children cause psychological harm to the children: A18

ART AND COMMUNITY
Students and professors at Chapman University are examining how nearby Santa Ana, Cal., spends money on museums and concert halls rather than on the culture of its Latino residents: A10

HOT TYPE
As bombs fall on Yugoslavia, sales of scholarly books on the Balkans take off. And publishers -- some with a little discomfort -- are rushing more titles into print: A18

BLOOD AND FILING CABINETS
In Cambodia, a documentation center and a museum gingerly gather and preserve information about the mass torture and killing perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge: B2

CAN WE MAKE AN AIDS VACCINE?
H.I.V. has breached the body's defenses, but some strategies may still prevail, writes David Baltimore, a Nobel Prize winner, president of the California Institute of Technology, and leader in the quest to fight the disease: A64

NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS: A19-22

• Nota Bene: The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy, by Russell Jacoby.

COMPUTERS IN THE CLASSROOM
A program at the University of Washington, dubbed UWired, is training professors to use technology in their courses, and the approach is winning converts on the faculty: A23

PAYING FOR INTERNET IMPROVEMENT
A federal appeals court has ruled that money in a $62-million fund of the National Science Foundation, intended to foster the network's development, was collected legally: A25

NICKED BY THE CUTTING EDGE
In teaching Composition I via the Internet, Ellen Laird says she has come to feel like a "cyberspace hostage," with an academic version of the Stockholm syndrome. The author is an instructor of English at Hudson Valley Community College: B6

OHIO UNIVERSITY is adding personal computers and printers to the standard furnishings of its dormitory rooms for freshmen: A23

WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY, the on-line institution, is seeking $8-million in federal funds to speed its development: A25

A WORLD-WIDE WEB SITE created by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute specifies safety procedures for science laboratories: A27

SIX INTERNET RESOURCES, five Internet lists, and three new software programs:A27

QUESTIONING STANDARDIZED TESTS
Colleges are in legal jeopardy if they make SAT or ACT scores the primary basis for admissions and student-aid decisions, according to draft guidelines prepared by the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights: A28

RESEARCH RIGHTS RESTORED
During one week, federal officials revoked and then reinstated Duke University Medical Center's license to conduct experiments involving human subjects. Now officials of similar programs across the country are wary: A30

PICKING SIDES FOR 2000
As Presidential candidates begin to talk about higher education, academics are signing on as advisers to the campaigns in both political parties: A32

APPROPRIATIONS BASED ON PERFORMANCE
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia has endorsed a plan to link state funds for public colleges to how well the institutions are doing in key areas: A33

NEW APPROACH TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Campuses of the University of Wisconsin System are developing plans to increase minority enrollments without numerical goals or admissions preferences: A34

PAYING FOR INTERNET IMPROVEMENT
A federal appeals court has ruled that money in a $62-million fund of the National Science Foundation, intended to foster the network's development, was collected legally: A25

DEE DEE MYERS, a former Presidential spokeswoman, has been appointed a trustee of the California State University System: A28

AN OREGON LEGISLATOR has proposed letting freshmen erase their bad first-term grades: A28

A COALITION of 22 patients' groups is lobbying Congress to support stem-cell research: A28

THE SENATE Finance Committee approved a bill that would create or extend tax breaks to help students, parents, and employers pay or save for a college education: A31

CALIFORNIA'S Student Aid Commission is ending its relationship with the state's student-loan-guarantee agency, EdFund, and will devise a new organization to take its place: A31

A STATE JUDGE has ruled a Washington financial-aid program unconstitutional because it allows students to use its funds to attend religious institutions: A33

THE UNIVERSITY of Washington is blaming a ban on racial preferences, imposed by a ballot measure last fall, for a big drop in the number of minority students: A33

RENT-A-BOSS
The Registry for College and University Presidents places retired chief executives in interim positions, helping both the institutions and the retirees get what they want: A35

PATENT DISPUTE SETTLED
Emory University and Glaxo Wellcome, a pharmaceutical company, have resolved a fight over rights to data on a drug that shows promise in treating H.I.V. and hepatitis B: A36

A 2-YEAR PROGRAM'S PROMISE
The Dallas County Community College District has begun a $32-million campaign for money to offer needy, academically qualified high-school students a free education: A38

THE EXXON CORPORATION has financed research on jury awards, and is using it in an appeal of damages stemming from the Exxon Valdez disaster: A35

THE COUNCIL for Advancement and Support of Education has published a etiquette manual for campus events: A35

A FORMER TOP OFFICIAL at the Johns Hopkins University pleaded guilty to income-tax evasion charges stemming from his embezzlement of university funds: A37

THE WILLIAM H. GATES Foundation has given $50-million to Columbia University's School of Public Health for work in developing nations: A37

THE UNIVERSITY of Oklahoma is dissolving an endowment that was created to finance a professorship in honor of Anita Hill, who used to teach law there: A37

TWO GRAPHS depict trends in faculty pay and the cost of living and pension money invested in the stock market: A38

FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A38

CAMPUS CRIME
Arrests for violations of drug and alcohol laws increased by 7.2 per cent and 3.6 per cent, respectively, from 1996 to 1997, according to a Chronicle survey: A39

• Colleges use widely different classifications in reporting crimes, even though they are publishing the reports under the same federal law: A41

• A key dispute over campus-crime statistics concerns incidents that are reported to college counselors but not to the police: A42

• Fact File: crime data from 483 colleges and universities for 1996 and 1997: A43-49

THE UNIVERSITY of New Mexico is seeking to lure back dropouts who left just short of completing their degrees: A39

A MAGAZINE called CommonQuest has published a special issue examining campus diversity: A39

COMMENCEMENT CEREMONIES this spring have featured a non-hoax by Kurt Vonnegut, a prank at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a party at Davidson College: A8

FASHION-DESIGN STUDENTS in a contest at Miami-Dade Community College created new clothing for the Barbie doll by recycling materials: A8

WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of best-selling books: A10

NEW GOVERNMENT IN ISRAEL
Many academic and student leaders have an optimistic view of Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak, and hope he will direct more money toward their needs: A51

FRAUD CHARGES IN EUROPE
The European Union has closed the office that runs Leonardo, one of its larger student programs, following accusations of financial mismanagement and cronyism: A52

BLOOD AND FILING CABINETS
In Cambodia, a documentation center and a museum gingerly gather and preserve information about the mass torture and killing perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge: B2

THE FRENCH Ministry of Education says that over the next decade, half of the public universities' faculty members will retire: A51

THE LATE KING HUSSEIN of Jordan will be commemorated by two new Fulbright scholarships created by the U.S. Information Agency: A51

CAN WE MAKE AN AIDS VACCINE?
H.I.V. has breached the body's defenses, but some strategies may still prevail, writes David Baltimore, a Nobel Prize winner, president of the California Institute of Technology, and leader in the quest to fight the disease: A64

THE HUMANITIES LAB
Imagine this, suggests Cathy N. Davidson: ideas evolving not in response to adversarial diatribes, but in a collaborative process, like that of science. The author is vice-provost for interdisciplinary studies and a professor of English at Duke University: B4

NICKED BY THE CUTTING EDGE
In teaching Composition I via the Internet, Ellen Laird says she has come to feel like a "cyberspace hostage," with an academic version of the Stockholm syndrome. The author is an instructor of English at Hudson Valley Community College: B6

RACISM FROM A DISTANCE
When Neil Foley, a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, was invited to Guatemala to lecture on his research into how people define themselves as white, the journey became as revelatory for him as it was for his audiences: B7

MARGINALIA: mistakes, foibles, and other amusements on the lighter side of academe: A8

• Getting a degree without going to class: distance learning and competency exams: B3

• Freedom of speech for conservatives: B8

• Anthologies serve a useful purpose: B8

• Let athletes major in sports: B9

• The birth of the book: B9

• The job market in Russia: B9

• Choosing a name for a new field: B9

• Contributions of Filipino Americans: B9

• Objections to sculpture of Moses: B9

CONTRADICTIONS AND DICHOTOMIES
"Robert Colescott: Recent Paintings," an exhibition by an artist whose works tend to entangle viewers in layers of meaning, is at the University of California's Berkeley Art Museum: B64

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