A Guide to the January 12, 1996, Issue
of The Chronicle of Higher Education
IN ISRAEL, SEPARATION ANXIETY
As the number of Arabs attending Israeli universities climbs,
educators are debating whether the time is right for an Arab
university.
IN THE UNITED STATES, A CONTROVERSIAL REQUIREMENT
Two education groups are threatening to withdraw from the
National Security Education Program unless Congress rescinds a
new requirement of people who participate in the program.
GLOBAL ISSUES
Competition and Change, a new quarterly journal, examines the
sociology of the world's economy from an international
perspective.
ORIGINS OF BEHAVIOR
The husband-and-wife team of John Tooby and Leda Cosmides,
professors at the University of California at Santa Barbara,
is promoting the controversial field of evolutionary
psychology.
A NEW AGE FOR FOOTNOTES
Scholars are debating how to standardize the rules governing
the citation of electronic documents found on CD-ROMs and at
Internet sites.
IN DEFENSE OF THE BOOK
A committee of the Modern Language Association has issued a
warning about the perils of excessive reliance on digitized
manuscripts and books.
A SELF-CRITICAL HISTORY
A 1,200-page book about the Sorbonne and the University of
Paris explores how conflicts within France have shaped the
institutions' development.
IMPRECISION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Researchers too often use abstract terms that fail to account
for cultural, environmental, and other differences in the
people they study, writes Jerome Kagan, a professor of
psychology at Harvard University.
A SPATIAL AND VISUAL WONDERLAND
Colleagues and friends of the late Charles Moore, who taught
architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, hope to
preserve his unusual home for visitors and students.
LEGAL BRIEFS
Lexis-Nexis, a leading provider of on-line information about
law, has commissioned seven Harvard University professors to
create electronic materials for first-year law students.
IN DEFENSE OF THE BOOK
A committee of the Modern Language Association has issued a
warning about the perils of excessive reliance on digitized
manuscripts and books.
LEVEL PLAYING FIELD?
The Clinton Administration and Congressional Republicans differ
on how to create fair competition between the direct-lending
and guaranteed-loan programs.
HIGHER STANDARDS
Massachusetts has raised the admission requirements for its
public colleges. The new standards take effect in 1997.
A CONTROVERSIAL REQUIREMENT
Two education groups are threatening to withdraw from the
National Security Education Program unless Congress rescinds a
a new requirement of people who participate in the program.
"NEW ERA" SAGA CONTINUES
Dozens of colleges are being asked to return millions of
dollars that they received from a philanthropic fund that
collapsed last year.
BUDGET WOES
Financial problems have cost Selma University, Southern
Virginia College, and Texas College their accreditation.
BOYS TO MEN
An unusual trade school in Pennsylvania takes a military-style
approach to preparing its students for the rigors of the
workplace and the responsibilities of adulthood.
ABILITY TO BENEFIT
Colleges are criticizing new federal regulations that limit
financial aid for students who have not graduated from high
school.
A VOTE FOR CHANGE
Switching from a winner-take-all system to one of proportional
representation will make elections in the United States fairer,
more democratic, and more meaningful, argues Douglas J. Amy, a
politics professor at Mount Holyoke College.
GATEWAYS TO AMERICA'S GHETTOS
In The New American Ghetto, a new book published by Rutgers
University Press, Camilo Jose Vergara explores the role of
doors in poor neighborhoods.