From the issue dated September 28, 2001
A SPECIAL REPORT
AFTER SEPTEMBER 11
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which serves many New York City police officers, helps students and alumni at Ground Zero.
LIVING TOGETHER
At the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Jewish and Muslim student groups are setting aside their differences, at least for now.
SO MANY EULOGIES
The public-policy expert from Georgetown; the gymnastics coach heading to a new job at Santa Barbara; the peripatetic geographer from New Hampshire: Higher education lost them and others.
COUNTING LOSSES
The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, for years a fast track to the World Trade Center, faces the aftermath of the attacks.
'NURSERY OF THE TALIBAN'
Haqqania, a Pakistani college and mosque where the chancellor regards Osama bin Laden as a friend, has taught Islamic studies to many members of the ruling government in Afghanistan.
ISOLATED IN KABUL
Afghanistan's main university, once a haven for intellectuals across Central Asia, has withered after years of war and neglect.
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- CAMPUS SCENES: Photos of college gatherings in the wake of the attacks.
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- VERBATIM: On the basis of a study they conducted in Sweden, two researchers say widespread grief over events like the recent terrorist attacks in the United States can have a direct impact on public health.
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- HOT TYPE: Two publishers that had released books two years ago on the World Trade Center and on Osama bin Laden are finding themselves unexpected -- and reluctant -- beneficiaries of the attacks.
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- LOAN RELIEF: The U.S. Education Department directed lenders to ease the repayment burdens of student-loan borrowers affected by the jetliner assaults.
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- FEARING A CRACKDOWN: College officials anticipate a tightening of rules on student visas.
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- BUDGET PRIORITIES: Despite the defense buildup, colleges are hopeful that their financial needs will be met.
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- Read The Chronicle's full coverage of how the terrorist attacks have affected academe.
THE FACULTY
COMPARING STIPENDS
Financial packages are a key element in the competition for graduate students, but private universities are outpacing their public counterparts.
- FACT FILE: Results from a Chronicle survey of the stipends and benefits that top American research universities offer to graduate students in six fields.
SO MANY EULOGIES
The public-policy expert from Georgetown; the gymnastics coach heading to a new job at Santa Barbara; the peripatetic geographer from New Hampshire: Higher education lost them and others.
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- GADFLY SURVIVES: Albright College gave up an effort to fire a professor who has been an outspoken critic of the institution's president.
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- STRIKING A DEAL: Northeastern University settled a lawsuit brought by a student over a professor's alleged sexual harassment.
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- WHISTLE-BLOWER CASE: Emory University and a former associate professor of medicine who had been banned from the campus reached an accord.
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- THE $1-TRILLION LAWSUIT: A law professor at Northwestern University has sued Japan for starting World War II.
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- PEER REVIEW: A professor prevailed at Wheaton College (Mass.) in his challenge to the hiring of minority faculty members without a national search. ... Objections from animal-rights activists led the University of South Florida to turn down a candidate for vice president for research.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
NOT ON THE SHORTLIST
Having written a dissertation on literary lists that Harold Bloom pronounced "marvelous," Robert Belknap, a Ph.D. from Yale, seems poised for a career in academe. So where are the job offers?
UNDERSTANDING ENZYMES
Scientists find that studying the protein molecules provides clues to how animals and plants adapt to changing conditions.
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- WHAT THEY'RE READING ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES: A list of best-selling books.
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- VERBATIM: On the basis of a study they conducted in Sweden, two researchers say widespread grief stemming from recent terrorist attacks will have a direct impact on public health.
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- WHO KNEW? Scientists at Iowa State University have found that an oil in catnip is remarkably effective at repelling mosquitoes. ... Contrary to popular belief, a Michigan researcher says, memory starts to decline not in old age but in our 20s. ... Two Boston-area researchers have found that students who can write Chinese do better on the math portion of the SAT. ... A dentistry journal reports that for postmenopausal women, dental X-rays can detect a key risk factor for stroke.
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- HOT TYPE: Two publishers that had released books two years ago on the World Trade Center and on Osama bin Laden are finding themselves unexpected -- and reluctant -- beneficiaries of the terrorist attacks.
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- NOTA BENE: Arlene Davila, author of Latinos Inc., describes how advertising agencies aim their messages at the fastest-growing minority group in the United States.
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- ONLINE IDENTITY: More scholars are studying -- and criticizing -- the way Internet users identify their race in a medium that was once touted as a race-neutral utopia.
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- NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
OUT WITH THE OLD
As term limits take effect in many states, college officials ask: Are new lawmakers open to fresh ideas or simply uninformed?
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- THE GO-AHEAD: Virginia's governor released funds for four universities' construction projects that had been halted in March because of a shortfall in the state's budget.
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- LOBBYIST WATCH: The University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville set aside their rivalry for federal research funds and opened a joint office in Washington.
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- CLOSER SCRUTINY: Massachusetts' acting governor called for tighter oversight of Roxbury Community College after important documents were discovered missing from its financial-aid paperwork.
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- UPHOLDING PRIVACY: A state appeals court supported the University of Wisconsin's refusal to share applicants' records with an advocacy group that opposes racial preferences in college admissions.
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- DOWNTURN IN DEFAULTS: The rate at which student borrowers failed to repay their loans dropped again.
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- LOAN RELIEF: The U.S. Education Department directed lenders to ease the repayment burdens of student-loan borrowers affected by the terrorist attacks.
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- FEARING A CRACKDOWN: College officials anticipate a tightening of rules on student visas.
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- BUDGET PRIORITIES: Despite the defense buildup, colleges are hopeful that their financial needs will be met.
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- NEW HEAD OF NEH: The Senate approved a professor of art history at Indiana University at Bloomington as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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- NEA'S NEW CHAIRMAN: The dean of Rice University's School of Music is President Bush's choice to lead the National Endowment for the Arts.
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- LOGGING IN: Rep. Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat with a long interest in intellectual-property legislation, says Congress should amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to protect users' rights.
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- SHUFFLING THE MONEY: The U.S. Department of Education won't award as many grants for distance-education projects this year because President Bush has proposed cutting new financing for the program.
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
OVERCOMING ACCREDITATION TROUBLE
California's Bethany College survived four years of tough love and emerged with a clean bill of health and a future.
COUNTING LOSSES
The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, for years a fast track to the World Trade Center, faces the aftermath of the attacks.
COMPARING STIPENDS
Financial packages are a key element in the competition for graduate students, but private universities are outpacing their public counterparts.
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- MASCOT WATCH: Four universities and a community college deal with struggles over logos, images, or nicknames that offend.
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- NEW SCOOP: Inspired by the anti-sweatshop movement on campuses, an investment firm backed by Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry's ice-cream fame, is providing the seed money for a "sweat free" manufacturer of college-logo apparel.
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- THOU SHALT NOT PAY: Central Christian College of the Bible, in Missouri, increased its enrollment substantially this fall by doing away with tuition.
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- TWO GRAPHS DEPICT trends in faculty pay and the cost of living and pension money invested in the stock market.
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- FOUNDATION GRANTS; GIFTS AND BEQUESTS
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BANDWIDTH IMPAIRED
At the University of Delaware and elsewhere, technology administrators are facing heftier downloads and a popular new menace: video.
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- WEBCAST HALTED: Bellevue Community College's radio station, in Washington state, has stopped its online transmissions because of uncertainty over the amount of fees it would have to pay copyright holders.
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- OBJECTING IN VAIN: Several institutions that refused to participate in a ranking of the nation's "most wired colleges" were ranked anyway -- and some landed at the top of the chart.
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- DIGITAL ANGST: Both using and keeping up with technology cause journalism professors significant amounts of stress, a study finds.
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- LOGGING IN: Rep. Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat with a long interest in intellectual-property legislation, says Congress should amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to protect users' rights.
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- SHUFFLING THE MONEY: The U.S. Department of Education won't award as many grants for distance-education projects this year because President Bush has proposed cutting new financing for the program.
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- ONLINE IDENTITY: More scholars are studying -- and criticizing -- the way Internet users identify their race in a medium that was once touted as a race-neutral utopia.
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- GENDER DIVIDE: A report concludes that women who take distance-education courses face substantially more challenges than men do.
STUDENTS
AFTER SEPTEMBER 11
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which serves many New York City police officers, helps students and alumni at Ground Zero.
LIVING TOGETHER
At the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Jewish and Muslim student groups are setting aside their differences, at least for now.
NOTES FROM THE BACK BAR
On a return visit to the University of Delaware, a former resident reflects on the different and refreshing world to be found in a local saloon where townies gather.
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- OFF-COLOR AD: The president of Central Connecticut State University was irate over a restaurant's use of racy language in the campus newspaper.
INTERNATIONAL
'NURSERY OF THE TALIBAN'
Haqqania, a Pakistani college and mosque where the chancellor regards Osama bin Laden as a friend, has taught Islamic studies to many members of the ruling government in Afghanistan.
ISOLATED IN KABUL
Afghanistan's main university, once a haven for intellectuals across Central Asia, has withered after years of war and neglect.
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- NEW BUREAUCRACY: Jordan has re-established its Ministry of Higher Education in an effort to regulate universities and overcome a lack of coordination.
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- STUDENTS THREATENED: A militant group in Indian-administered Kashmir announced that it will shoot Muslim women who do not adhere to a strict dress code, and it asked colleges to help enforce the rules.
THE CHRONICLE REVIEW
THE FRACTURED LANDSCAPE
Reflections on September 11, 2001, and its aftermath.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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