Today's News

Britain's main faculty union canceled a series of planned debates by its members to consider an academic boycott of Israeli universities, saying that such a boycott would probably be illegal.

Through a program of dialogue, Palestinian and Israeli teachers change their understanding of each other.

Makerere University, in Kampala, may revoke more than 200 degrees awarded in the past four years after an internal investigation discovered that the students appear not to have met admissions criteria.

Articles

In the corridors of some Italian universities, faculty members can look around and see a lot of famiglia faces, writes Francis X. Rocca, a journalist based in Rome and a correspondent for The Chronicle.
A document signed by two members of the Tatarano family, who both teach economics at the U. of Bari. (Photograph by Chris Warde-Jones)

Lee C. Bollinger, president of Columbia University, raised bitterly contested issues of free speech at a campus appearance last week by the leader of Iran. It was not the first such controversy during Mr. Bollinger's tenure.

Repressive regimes know that dialogue, criticism, and analysis are their enemies, which is why studying such regimes will always be risky business. Just ask Haleh Esfandiari, writes Daniel Byman, director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University.

World Notes

DEAL AT THE 19TH HOLE: The University of British Columbia has aced the acquisition of the world's largest collection of books about golf.