From the issue dated July 25, 2003
THE FACULTY
CLASS CLOWN
A professor has written a how-to book on his own pedagogical method -- comedy.
SEXPERT CÉLÈBRE
The author of The Hot Guide to Safer Sex, a New York University sex columnist and scholar, has a coming-out party.
LIFE LESSONS
How do formal educations influence informal ones? Writers' descriptions of their own learning offer clues, writes Mary Catherine Bateson, a professor emerita of anthropology and English at George Mason University.
LIFE AFTER TENURE
Even when your promotion goes well, the up-or-out experience colors the quality of academic life.
ADJUNCTS DO HAVE TIME FOR STUDENTS
Whether you teach full time or part time has little to do with how committed you are in the classroom, argues Jill Carroll.
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- 'DR. SEX' REDUX: Two transsexuals who are described in a new book on sexual identity say the author did not tell them they were research subjects.
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- PEER REVIEW: Harvard University adds four professors to its newly renamed African and African-American studies department. ... A newspaper columnist who is also a fellow at the Brookings Institution adds a professorship to his work week.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
PASSIONATE CRIMES, UNFAIR DECISIONS
A law professor offers a model for reforming how juries deal with killings committed under emotional circumstances.
THE 'BIBLE' IS BACK
A frequent arbiter of disagreements over word usage, The Chicago Manual of Style is about to be reissued.
THROUGH WITH THE SHREW
The public has caricatured, dated ideas about feminist literary criticism. It's time to explain what it is, and what a varied group these scholars are, writes Rita Felski, a professor of English at the University of Virginia.
ENLIGHTENING DISTINCTIONS
British and North American philosophers differ in their views on science, diversity, and how best to contribute to society. They could learn a lot from each other, writes Julian Baggini, editor of The Philosophers' Magazine.
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- ALL IN THEIR MINDS: A higher education and a big head can help ward off dementia, according to a recent study.
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- CULTURE WATCH: Our expert evaluates the facts of life presented in The Hulk.
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- VERBATIM: As the first person born through in vitro fertilization turns 25, the process has gone from controversial to common.
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- HOT TYPE: The Beirut-based publisher of a well-received book on the modern Iraqi poet Abd al-Wahhab al-Biyyati chose not to publicize the author's origins as an Israeli-born Jew who teaches at the University of Haifa. ... The author of a book on censorship and homosexuality in modern American art found himself fighting limits on his own expression with the Oxford University Press.
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- NOTA BENE: Essayists in Movie Blockbusters explain the origin, history, and nature of those oft-disdained films.
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- NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
A DECADE OF TROUBLES
AmeriCorps, long beset by management problems, faces an uncertain future as Congress ponders its reauthorization.
A PENALTY FOR PIRACY?
New federal legislation threatens to pierce public colleges' shield from software-theft charges.
PROGRESS TOWARD EQUALITY
An analysis by The Chronicle of gender equity in college sports shows slow gains, but rising costs threaten more advances.
ADVANCED CLASSES
The image of American higher education as a meritocracy obscures the elaborate, self-perpetuating advantages enjoyed by a privileged elite, writes Peter Sacks, an author, essayist, and critic.
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- ENTER, THE AUDITOR: Tennessee's governor is asking for an investigation into the University of Tennessee president's use of an airplane and credit cards.
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- WHO'S IN CHARGE? A conflict between Rockland Community College's board and its host county left two people claiming to be president.
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- FEE INCREASE: California's two public-university systems raised tuition by as much as 30 percent.
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- DISAPPOINTED: Congressional committees approved less than some had hoped for the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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- PAYING FOR COLLEGE: Members of Congress have introduced bills to let borrowers consolidate their student loans more than once.
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- SOMEONE ELSE'S JOB: The National Science Foundation opposed a bill that would have it overseeing an effort to help minority colleges improve their computer systems.
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- PAYING RESPECT TO AMATEURISM? Some college athletes are pressing state lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow players to make money on the side.
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- STATUS QUO: Colleges will continue to use the same strategies to determine whether they have enough women playing sports under Title IX.
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
Medical schools try to plot the fine line between commercial links and conflicts of interest in research.
BETWEEN FRIENDS
Foundations have long supported important innovations in higher education. So why are they suddenly cool toward colleges? asks Mary B. Marcy, the co-director and senior administrator of Antioch University's project on the future of higher education.
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- PATENT CASE PENDING: A dispute between Florida State University and a former postdoc continues despite a federal court's ruling in the student's favor.
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- ENTER, THE AUDITOR: Tennessee's governor is asking for an investigation into the University of Tennessee president's use of an airplane and credit cards.
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- WHO'S IN CHARGE? A conflict between Rockland Community College's board and its host county left two people claiming to be president.
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- ARCHITECTURE & FACILITIES: Expansive rooms and open areas for an architecture school are crafted in a 1907 freight terminal.
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- THE NEW SUNSHINE STATE: Maine's seven technical colleges became community colleges this month, but there is some dispute over which one was first.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
A PENALTY FOR PIRACY?
New federal legislation threatens to pierce public colleges' shield from software-theft charges.
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- NAMING NAMES: The recording industry has used a subpoena to force Loyola University Chicago to reveal the names of students suspected of offering copyrighted music over the university network.
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- CASE SETTLED: Blackboard Inc. has resolved its lawsuit against two students who tried to crack the company's electronic debit-card system.
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- SOMEONE ELSE'S JOB: The National Science Foundation opposed a bill that would have it overseeing an effort to help minority colleges improve their computer systems.
STUDENTS
FORENSICS' NEW LOOK
Many high-school debaters still go on to the best colleges, but now students from inner cities are joining the teams.
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- FEELING THE HEAT: Acknowledging the tight summer-job market, Southern Methodist University's business school reallocated $55,000 from scholarship funds to provide stipends to students who have taken nonpaying positions.
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- SUMMER JOBS: Tufts University has created new paid research positions for some of its students.
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- PAYING FOR COLLEGE: Members of Congress have introduced bills to let borrowers consolidate their student loans more than once.
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- AND THE WINNER IS: A roundup of technological competitions in which students participated recently.
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- NO PARTIES, PLEASE: The student government at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania bought and is demolishing a derelict apartment complex that was the site of raucous bashes.
ATHLETICS
PROGRESS TOWARD EQUALITY
An analysis by The Chronicle of gender equity in college sports shows slow gains, but rising costs threaten more advances.
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- PAYING RESPECT TO AMATEURISM? Some college athletes are pressing state lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow players to make money on the side.
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- PUNISHED: The National Collegiate Athletic Association imposed penalties on the University of Washington after an assistant basketball coach admitted violating rules on recruiting.
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- STATUS QUO: Colleges will continue to use the same strategies to determine whether they have enough women playing sports under Title IX.
INTERNATIONAL
A MAORI UNIVERSITY
Swelling enrollments at a New Zealand institution for an indigenous group are a source of pride to some, evidence of a problem to others.
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- WORLD BEAT: The Korean women's university that used to expel undergraduates for being married is now permitting them to reapply. ... Harvard University Medical School is establishing a presence in the United Arab Emirates, in partnership with the higher-education ministry there.
THE CHRONICLE REVIEW
LIFE LESSONS
How do formal educations influence informal ones? Writers' descriptions of their own learning offer clues, writes Mary Catherine Bateson, a professor emerita of anthropology and English at George Mason University.
ADVANCED CLASSES
The image of American higher education as a meritocracy obscures the elaborate, self-perpetuating advantages enjoyed by a privileged elite, writes Peter Sacks, an author, essayist, and critic.
THROUGH WITH THE SHREW
The public has caricatured, dated ideas about feminist literary criticism. It's time to explain what it is, and what a varied group these scholars are, writes Rita Felski, a professor of English at the University of Virginia.
ENLIGHTENING DISTINCTIONS
British and North American philosophers differ in their views on science, diversity, and how best to contribute to society. They could learn a lot from each other, writes Julian Baggini, editor of The Philosophers' Magazine.
CREATIVE GENERATIONS
With a book about his filmmaker father's trip from Prague to Tibet, the artist Peter Sis illustrates his filial attachment.
BETWEEN FRIENDS
Foundations have long supported important innovations in higher education. So why are they suddenly cool toward colleges? asks Mary B. Marcy, the co-director and senior administrator of Antioch University's project on the future of higher education.
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- MELANGE: Selections from recent books of interest to academe.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
CAREER NETWORK
LIFE AFTER TENURE
Even when your promotion goes well, the up-or-out experience colors the quality of academic life.
ADJUNCTS DO HAVE TIME FOR STUDENTS
Whether you teach full time or part time has little to do with how committed you are in the classroom, argues Jill Carroll.
DIZZY WITH OPTIONS
For a Ph.D. considering alternate careers, the possibilities are endless -- and that's the problem.
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- ACADEMIC JOB FORUM: A discussion forum on the job search in higher education.
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- DETAILS OF AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching and research positions in higher education, administrative and executive jobs, and openings outside academe
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