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THE FACULTY
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Colleges' writing programs are embracing the literary trend,
but critics question the quality of the work produced and the
motives behind higher education's interest: A12
- Leading writers comment on whether there is a need for
nonfiction programs: A13
"MACARTUROS" MEET
At the first gathering of MacArthur fellows of Latino
heritage, the recipients of the so-called "genius grants"
celebrated their culture and heard a political call to arms: B2
SELF-EXPRESSION IN THE CLASSROOM
For a teacher not to applaud the act of confession flew in the
face of everything her students had learned from popular
culture, writes Lucia Perillo, an associate professor of
English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: A56
- MORE FEMALE EXECUTIVES will be showing up in case studies
designed by Harvard University's business school: A12
- MERRILL LYNCH is offering five grants to Ph.D.'s to help
transform their dissertations into successful commercial
ventures: A12
- A PART-TIME INSTRUCTOR in Washington State has complained to
the U.S. Education Department about the assessment of
part-time instructors by a regional accrediting group: A14
- YALE UNIVERSITY plans to ban sexual relationships between
professors and their students: A14
- THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON reportedly allowed graduate
students who were serving as teaching or research assistants
to enroll in sham courses: A10
- THE PRESIDENTS of seven California State University campuses
have called for big changes in the way the system trains
teachers: A36
- EDUCATION OFFICIALS in California have turned down an offer
by three Nobel laureates in chemistry to write science
standards for the state's public schools: A8
- PEER REVIEW: A50
- The uproar continues in the African-American-studies
department at Temple University. The new director's
office door was recently glued shut.
- The University of North Alabama's Entertainment Industry
Center is in search of a commercial-music director.
- Moving on.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
NEW EDITOR FOR "THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR"
Anne Fadiman plans some changes, but she says she's not the
radical that some of the journal's critics and fans may suspect
her to be: A15
"THE BEAL CONJECTURE"
A Dallas banker has offered a $50,000 prize to encourage
mathematicians to solve a problem in number theory: A16
COUNTING "THE LOST ONES"
A research project at the University of Houston has struggled
to document how many people die each year trying to cross the
border from Mexico to the United States: A10
BEYOND THE SUPERCOMPUTER?
Using a technology based on synthetic DNA molecules and
chemical reactions, researchers are exploring the possibility
of creating powerful new computers: A23
- MEDICAL RESEARCHERS have described a new psychiatric
disorder, "muscle dysmorphia" -- an irrational fear of
looking puny: A17
- BIRDS USE GEOMETRIC relationships among landmarks to find
buried seeds, scientists say: A17
- A GROUP OF INTERNATIONAL historians has vindicated Albert
Einstein's complaint that a colleague plagiarized his theory
of general relativity: A17
- PHILOSOPHERS AT STANFORD University have created what they
call the first dynamic encyclopedia, an on-line compendium
that changes with each scholarly advance: A23
- THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE'S Office of Research Integrity has
found two researchers guilty of scientific fraud: A35
- HOT TYPE: A17
- W.J.T. Mitchell, a professor of English at the University
of Chicago, is at work on a cultural history of dinosaur
imagery.
- Katherine Livingston has left her position as book-review
editor at the journal Science in the wake of a
scathing review that prompted a letter-writing campaign
critical of her work.
- 95 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A18-21
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BEYOND THE SUPERCOMPUTER?
Using a technology based on synthetic DNA molecules and
chemical reactions, researchers are exploring the possibility
of creating powerful new computers: A23
ON-LINE EDUCATION
Colorado's community-college system is starting a new
associate-degree program that will be offered entirely over the
Internet: A25
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
CREATING THE HOPE SCHOLARSHIPS
In a special report, The Chronicle takes an inside look
at how President Clinton, Congress, college officials, and
lobbyists brought about the largest infusion of funds for
higher education in three decades: A28
STUDYING COLLEGE COSTS
A federal commission that was once expected to criticize higher
education as being too expensive has ended up deciding that it
is a bargain: A33
DISPUTE OVER TRANSFER CREDITS
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools plans to
abandon a controversial policy that was criticized by the
Justice Department: A34
CONSIDERING ALTERNATIVES
The head of President Clinton's panel on racial issues
encouraged colleges to consider policies other than affirmative
action to foster diversity: A34
RULES ON FINANCIAL STABILITY
The U.S. Education Department has refined proposed regulations
that angered many colleges and universities: A36
- A BLIND PROFESSOR'S grant proposal to the U.S. Department of
Education was rejected because it was not double-spaced: A28
- THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE Company will pay for scholarships
in Florida as part of a legal penalty for having misled
customers: A28
- THE STUDENT LOAN MARKETING Association has temporarily
halted loan consolidations because a new law made it
unprofitable: A35
- THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S teaching hospital has agreed to
repay the federal government $8.6-million to settle
allegations that it overbilled Medicare: A35
- THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE'S Office of Research Integrity has
found two researchers guilty of scientific fraud: A35
- CALIFORNIA'S PROPOSITION 187, a voter-approved measure that
would ban illegal aliens from attending public colleges, has
been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge: A36
- THE TAX-EXEMPT STATUS of private colleges in Pennsylvania
has been assured by a state Supreme Court decision: A36
- THE PRESIDENTS of seven California State University campuses
have called for big changes in the way the system trains
teachers: A36
- NEW BILLS IN CONGRESS: A35
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
STUDYING PHILANTHROPY
The number of research centers has grown, but experts fear that
the programs have an uncertain financial base and limited
connections to their universities: A37
"SQUEAKING" BUT STILL GOING
Ninety-year-old Hillery Rice gets a part-time salary but gives
full measure in his job raising funds for Anderson University:
A38
2 MAJOR GIFTS
Washington University received a $100-million pledge from a
foundation, and Florida International University was given a
museum valued at $75-million: A40
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RULES ON FINANCIAL STABILITY
The U.S. Education Department has refined proposed regulations
that angered many colleges and universities: A36
COMPETITION FOR ASIAN STUDENTS
An international marketing expert who surveyed 1,000 students
from nine countries says universities need to develop new
marketing strategies: A48
- PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY'S athletics office has signed
a sponsorship agreement with a recreational-vehicle
dealership to park one of its R.V.'s by the stadium: A37
- ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY at Mountain Home has received a
$2.2-million endowment to start its campus: A37
- TOBACCO-INDUSTRY LAWYERS secretly subsidized research by a
University of Texas Health Center at Tyler scientist who was
known for debunking links between secondhand cigarette smoke
and disease, a Texas newspaper reported: A42
- THE MEDICAL COLLEGE of Wisconsin has been ordered to pay
$10-million in a dispute over the licensing of a device for
screening patients for cervical cancer: A42
- THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA System has reached a
$6.75-million settlement with Piper Jaffray Companies, a
money manager, over investment losses the university
suffered: A42
- THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S teaching hospital has agreed to
repay the federal government $8.6-million to settle
allegations that it overbilled Medicare: A35
- THE TAX-EXEMPT STATUS of private colleges in Pennsylvania
has been assured by a state Supreme Court decision: A36
- TWO GRAPHS depict trends in faculty pay and the cost of
living and pension money invested in the stock market: A42
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A41
CRUCIFIXES IN THE CLASSROOM
A student group is pushing Georgetown University to add them,
as a reflection of the institution's Roman Catholicism, but
others say the symbols would offend the many non-Catholics on
the campus: A43
CURBING ALCOHOL ABUSE
A report sent to the presidents of all four-year colleges urges
them to take stronger action and to be more vocal: A46
VIRTUAL LEARNING
Students at Colorado's community colleges soon will have the
option of earning an associate degree completely on line: A25
- HOLLINS COLLEGE students have put a new twist on their
autumn-bonfire tradition: A43
- CORNELL UNIVERSITY'S Johnson Graduate School of Management
is offering to help its entrepreneurial M.B.A. graduates
repay their loans: A43
- WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY stands to lose $28,000 in
scholarships from the Baptist State Convention of North
Carolina if it continues to sell alcohol at its campus pub:
A8
- TWO BLACK STUDENTS at Duke University have admitted to
hanging a black doll by a noose on the campus as a protest
of the state of race relations there: A8
- STUDENTS AT GETTYSBURG College volunteered to "die" recently
to dramatize the number of alcohol-related deaths that occur
each day: A8
- THE UNIVERSITY of Rochester played host to the first "Robin
Hood" conference: A10
- WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of
best-selling books: A46
- PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY'S athletics office has signed
a sponsorship agreement with a recreational-vehicle
dealership to park one of its R.V.'s by the stadium: A37
- A FORMER WOMEN'S SOFTBALL coach who accused Oregon State
University of violating her right to free speech has won
$1.28-million: A46
- THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE Athletic Association has placed
Pfeiffer University on probation for two years: A46
- AN 11-FOOT-LONG bronze statue of Middlebury College's
mascot will sit on a 100-million-year-old rock: A8
LEARNING IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE
Ethnic-Albanian students in Yugoslavia are pressing a reluctant
Serb-controlled government for a return of their university in
Kosovo: A47
COMPETITION FOR ASIAN STUDENTS
An international marketing expert who surveyed 1,000 students
from nine countries says universities need to develop new
marketing strategies: A48
ENROLLMENT SHIFTS IN CANADA
The number of foreign students at the country's universities is
declining, but two-year institutions are playing a bigger role
in international education: A49
- THE GOVERNMENT OF TAIWAN has dropped a plan that would have
recognized degrees awarded by Chinese universities: A47
- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS at Arlington has founded an
institute to help develop business ventures in Africa: A47
- MALAYSIAN LAWYERS are criticizing a government order that
bars experts at the country's universities from commenting
on Malaysia's air pollution: A47
- CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES are feeling the pinch of cutbacks in
government funds, according to the weekly magazine Maclean's: A49
- THE IRISH GOVERNMENT has established a fund to increase
higher education's research-and-development capacity and to
raise technical skills: A49
- INDONESIAN SOLDIERS shot to death two students on the East
Timor University campus: A49
SELF-EXPRESSION IN THE CLASSROOM
For a teacher not to applaud the act of confession flew in the
face of everything her students had learned from popular
culture, writes Lucia Perillo, an associate professor of
English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: A56
WHITE HOUSE TAPES
We should treat the recordings from the Kennedy, Johnson, and
Nixon Administrations as historical treasures, write Ernest R.
May, director of the Center for Studies in American History at
Harvard University, and Philip D. Zelikow, an associate
professor of public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School
of Government: B4
"COMPLEMENTARY" MEDICINE
Not enough research is being done on whether the remedies work,
nor are many products and procedures adequately regulated,
writes Marc S. Micozzi, executive director of the College of
Physicians of Philadelphia: B6
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
"MY OWN GRAND LIFE"
The book Brassaï: Letters to My Parents has been
published by the University of Chicago Press: B88
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE: PAGES A50-55
"BULLETIN BOARD": 78 PAGES OF JOB OPENINGS
DETAILS OF MORE THAN 990 AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching
and research positions in higher education, administrative
and executive jobs, and openings outside academe: B10-87
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