SHIFTING PRIORITIES AT FOREIGN-AFFAIRS SCHOOLS
As graduate programs in international studies place more emphasis on finance, some faculty members fear that the institutions may become too much like business schools: A8

RACISM OR PLAGIARISM?
In a lawsuit, nine former doctoral candidates at Nova Southeastern University -- which awards many doctorates to black students -- say their expulsions were racially motivated: A36

PEER REVIEW
Adelphi University has lost another president, but not because of mismanagement. ... The chancellor of the Houston Community College System has decided to stay, despite resigning last month: A43

RECONSTRUCTING A FUTURE
Laurenz Demps, an architectural historian who joined Humboldt University when it was still ruled by the Communist authorities of East Germany, studies Berlin with a hopeful eye: B2

FACULTY-RETIREMENT POLICIES should be set with input from campus business officers, said speakers last week at the National Association of College and University Business Officers' annual meeting: A8

A NEW BOOK provides a how-to guide for adjunct professors: A8

A FEDERAL JURY convicted a former community-college professor of helping 300 military veterans fabricate course credits to qualify for higher government benefits: A6

FETAL POLITICS
Books by researchers in the humanities and social sciences focus on new technologies that bring babies into the world, and the implications of those innovations for women: A10

STORM WARNING
Researchers at Clemson University are devising a computerized model of wind flow through a hurricane, in an effort to map the course of destruction before it begins: A12

FOOD AND IDENTITY
Yong Chen, a historian at the University of California at Irvine, is studying ethnic cuisine as a marker of social memory and culture: A7

HOT TYPE
The American Psychological Association's journal has sparked another controversy, with an article questioning the need for fathers. ... An entrepreneurial professor introduces scholarly audiotapes. ... The search is on for directors of four Midwestern presses: A18

AN INEXPENSIVE DRUG has been found to cut deaths from congestive heart failure: A13

THE SUDDEN DRAINING of two vast lakes into the ocean prompted a global cooling 8,200 years ago, scientists say: A13

WOMEN WHO ARE under 50 are more likely than men of the same age to die of heart attacks, according to researchers: A13

A BACTERIUM borne by ticks has been found to infect humans with a potentially fatal disease called ehrlichiosis: A13

FINANCIAL STRESS doubles the risk of gum disease, scientists have found: A13

A PROFESSOR at Albion College traveled to China this spring to continue research on how exercise can improve children's education: A7

NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS: A14-19

• Nota Bene: The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James, by Christoph Irmscher.

• Verbatim: Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture, by Mark Fenster.

THE NET RACE
Canada has proudly unveiled the world's fastest research backbone, but few applications have been designed for its use, which suggests that speed is not the only consideration for next-generation networks: A21

CALLING 911
Telephone companies have started offering colleges a fairly expensive service that lets operators pinpoint the locations of emergency calls: A24

A PROFESSOR at Carnegie Mellon University has designed a virtual hockey game to demonstrate the properties of electric fields to physics students: A21

A WORLD-WIDE WEB SITE created by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration helps users find satellites orbiting Earth: A23

FOUR RESOURCES ON LINE; reviews of information-technology stories in four magazines; and one new software program: A23

PANEL CLEARS TAX-CUT PACKAGE
Legislation that includes key benefits for colleges and students passed the Senate Finance Committee, but President Clinton has vowed to veto the Republican-sponsored measure and a similar bill in the House of Representatives: A25

ELIGIBILITY FOR STUDENT AID
The U.S. Education Department has proposed rules to carry out a new federal law to deny funds to those convicted of drug-related offenses: A26

• Other new regulations proposed by the Education Department would make it easier for students schooled at home to attend college: A26

NEW LEADER FOR CUNY
With the backing of New York's Governor and Mayor, the president of Adelphi University, Matthew Goldstein, has been picked to take over the troubled system: A30

TURNOVER IN VIRGINIA
The controversial head of the State Council of Higher Education, William B. Allen, has resigned unexpectedly: A30

POPULAR SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS
States are continuing to create new merit-based awards, and to resist efforts to tighten eligibility criteria: A31

REPUBLICAN LEADERS in the House of Representatives have crafted a plan to raise the maximum Pell Grant by blocking the reduction of a fee assessed to some student-loan borrowers: A25

ASSOCIATIONS REPRESENTING black, Hispanic, and tribal colleges have formed a new alliance to lobby for federal support: A25

A REPORT by the Education Department's Inspector General said the year-2000 computer bug may imperil the delivery of federal student aid: A28

THE FEDERAL OFFICE that insures safety in human-subject research will be moved out of the National Institutes of Health, to bolster its autonomy: A28

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES approved a bill to consolidate funds for several teacher-development programs: A28

PRESIDENT CLINTON urged law schools to increase the racial and ethnic diversity of their student bodies: A29

A KEY ADVOCATE for science in Congress, Rep. George E. Brown, Jr., has died at 79: A29

A PRESIDENTIAL PANEL says tribal colleges need more money: A29

THE U.S. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT has extended an additional $20,000 in Stafford loans to some students in health-related fields: A29

A FEDERAL JURY convicted a former community-college professor of helping 300 military veterans fabricate course credits to qualify for higher government benefits: A6

THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE has issued a ruling that would preserve the tax break that college donors may take for leasing luxury boxes at campus stadiums and arenas: A40

THE STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE
Small liberal-arts institutions, like Sterling College, in Kansas, face a unique set of demographic and financial challenges, with little margin for error: A32

• Many experts say small private colleges need to collaborate, not compete, if they are to survive: A33

SHIFTING PRIORITIES AT FOREIGN-AFFAIRS SCHOOLS
As graduate programs in international studies place more emphasis on finance, some faculty members fear that the institutions may become too much like business schools: A8

TWO TOP OFFICIALS at the University of South Alabama Foundation have sued two university trustees for slander and libel: A32

HARVARD UNIVERSITY will use endowment funds to increase spending by $20-million on its teaching hospitals: A32

THE BOARD that sets accounting standards for public colleges has proposed changes that would bridge some differences with private institutions: A35

A FORMER PRESIDENT of the Illinois College of Optometry will pay $575,000 to the college to settle a lawsuit: A35

THE GRAMBLING STATE University Foundation has filed for bankruptcy: A35

A PIANO belonging to the late jazz legend Earl (Fatha) Hines will be auctioned to benefit a young-musician program at the University of California at Berkeley: A6

THE UNIVERSITY of Georgia is under fire for chopping down more than a dozen old trees to make way for building projects: A6

FACULTY-RETIREMENT POLICIES should be set with input from campus business officers, said speakers last week at the National Association of College and University Business Officers' annual meeting: A8

TWO GRAPHS depict trends in faculty pay and the cost of living and pension money invested in the stock market: A35

FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A35

RACISM OR PLAGIARISM?
In a lawsuit, nine former doctoral candidates at Nova Southeastern University -- which awards many doctorates to black students -- say their expulsions were racially motivated: A36

MORE THAN 100 colleges will sponsor an advertising campaign on the dangers of student drinking. Meanwhile, a survey suggests parents are eager to hear of alcohol violations by their children attending Central Michigan University: A36

AS MANY AS 10,000 Jewish college students in the United States and Canada may receive free trips to Israel: A37

HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS who took the SAT in southern California last month will have to take it again, after the tests were lost by Federal Express: A6

NEW BUSINESS STUDENTS at the University of Pittsburgh took part in team sports last week to build their teamwork abilities: A6

UNION COLLEGE in Kentucky invited a group of rowdy students of the 1960s and '70s to return to the campus to help demolish a building: A7

CHANGING THE RULES
A National Collegiate Athletic Association panel studying men's basketball has proposed a number of changes in academic standards and the way players are recruited: A39

THE N.C.A.A. has moved its headquarters from suburban Kansas City to Indianapolis, leaving behind a somber building and displaced employees: A39

THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE has issued a ruling that would preserve the tax break that college donors may take for leasing luxury boxes at campus stadiums and arenas: A40

BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY has been put on probation for recruiting and other violations by its wrestling program: A40

PEOPLE in athletics: A40

KOSOVO'S MISSING MEN
As ethnic Albanians return to the Yugoslav province, a town wonders what happened to many of its students, professors, and other intellectuals: A41

ABORIGINAL U.
Australia's first university for indigenous people offers courses that draw on both the Western academic heritage and local customs and ceremonial traditions: A42

RECONSTRUCTING A FUTURE
Laurenz Demps, an architectural historian who joined Humboldt University when it was still ruled by the Communist authorities of East Germany, studies Berlin with a hopeful eye: B2

SHIFTING PRIORITIES AT FOREIGN-AFFAIRS SCHOOLS
As graduate programs in international studies place more emphasis on finance, some faculty members fear that the institutions may become too much like business schools: A8

TWO PROFESSORS have filed a criminal complaint against leaders of a student strike that has paralyzed the National Autonomous University of Mexico: A41

AN AMERICAN DONOR has stopped payment on a $30-million pledge to establish a business school at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology: A41

AS MANY AS 10,000 Jewish college students in the United States and Canada may receive free trips to Israel: A37

THE SECOND SHIFT
Until women really count in academic life, equality will not be achieved, and female scholars will pay the consequences in their own lives, writes Ruth Rosen, a professor of history at the University of California at Davis: A48

SUSTAINING OUR CITIES
In an era of global change and increasing political uncertainty, writes William E. Rees, we should be developing strategies to secure our urban environments. The author is director of the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia: B4

TRAINING BETTER TEACHERS
Ted Hipple, a professor of education at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, describes how the College of Education succeeded by subjecting its applicants to an unusually tough admissions process: B6

RISKY BUSINESS
In a culture both attracted to and fearful of images of violence and sex, movies are among the mass media at risk of giving way to calls for censorship, writes Alan M. Dershowitz, a professor of law at Harvard Law School: B7

MARGINALIA: mistakes, foibles, and other amusements on the lighter side of academe: A6

• What do scores on standardized tests really tell us about students?: B3

• New guidelines for use of SATs: B8

• Collecting data about the humanities: B8

• Teletubbies and real children: B8

• Guiding students toward careers: B9

• Scholarly monographs at university presses: B9

• Student-loan programs and lobbyists: B9

• Ernest Hemingway and the critics: B9

• International writing at the University of Iowa: B9

• Dispute over facts in lawsuit: B9

REPAINTING THE LANDSCAPE
"Enduring Vision: Contemporary Painters in the Tradition of the Hudson River School" is on view at the Mandeville Gallery of Union College in New York through August 15: B56

RECONSTRUCTING A FUTURE
Laurenz Demps, an architectural historian who joined Humboldt University when it was still ruled by the Communist authorities of East Germany, studies Berlin with a hopeful eye: B2

• APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS on U.S. campuses.

• DEATHS of people in academe.

• COMING EVENTS: conferences, workshops, and seminars.

• DEADLINES for fellowships, grants, the submission of papers, and more.

DETAILS OF AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching and research positions in higher education, administrative and executive jobs, and openings outside academe.