GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
AN AGENDA IN MASSACHUSETTS
James F. Carlin, the head of the state's Board of Higher
Education, has angered many faculty members with his plans to
reform "managerially dysfunctional" colleges: A41
AN INCENTIVE TO DONATE
States are using the offer of matching grants to encourage more
private giving to public colleges' endowments: A44
FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES ENDOWMENT
Its supporters hope it can rebuild political support and gain
more prominence in intellectual life as William E. Ferris, Jr.,
takes office at its helm: A46
CASE CLOSED
A surprise settlement of a lawsuit in New Jersey means that the
U.S. Supreme Court will not hear an appeal that some feared
would lead to new restrictions on affirmative action in higher
education: A48
GENDER EQUITY IN SALARIES
The U.S. Justice Department has started an investigation into
whether Division I colleges and universities illegally pay
coaches of men's teams more than coaches of women's teams: A58
DIVERSITY FOR THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS
The United States is represented abroad by foreign-service
officers who do not reflect the multiracial composition of its
society, writes Allan E. Goodman, executive dean of the School
of Foreign Service at Georgetown University: B6
- IN OKLAHOMA, Rogers University's push for autonomy has set
off a political tussle: A41
- ALASKA'S GOVERNOR, Tony Knowles, has promised to try to
restore the 2 per cent of the University of Alaska's budget
that the state Legislature cut last month: A41
- THE U.S. SUPREME COURT has agreed to rule on the legality of
the National Endowment for the Arts' anti-obscenity
standards for grant recipients: A43
- A COALITION of the State University of New York at Stony
Brook and the Battelle Memorial Research Institute has been
chosen to run the Brookhaven National Laboratory: A43
- THE NEW PRESIDENT of the University of North Carolina has
ordered a review of the system's affirmative-action
policies: A45
- STATUS OF PENDING federal legislation: A47
- NEW FEDERAL REGULATORY ACTIONS: A48
- NEW APPOINTMENTS in the federal government: A48
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
TENSIONS AT COLUMBIA
President George Rupp has improved the university's finances,
but some faculty members bristle at his style and his budgetary
priorities: A49
A JUMP-START FOR GIVING
Universities are benefiting in states that are using the offer
of matching grants to encourage private support for public
institutions: A44
- THE HEAD OF DEVRY INC., one of the nation's largest
for-profit providers of education, has given his alma mater,
Princeton University, $10-million: A49
- A UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN fund-raising campaign is asking
current students to help furnish the student center: A49
- THE PRESIDENT of a two-year college in Buffalo, N.Y., has
quit amid questions about his handling of a discretionary
fund: A51
- THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI will pay $3.7-million to repair
damage to a coral reef by a university ship that ran aground
there three years ago: A10
- NASDAQ'S PRESIDENT, a University of Virginia alumnus, has
owned up to a prank involving a cow 32 years ago, and has
reimbursed the local police for the cost of their
investigation: A10
- VIRGINIA TECH is investigating whether two beloved alumni,
now deceased, had ties to the Ku Klux Klan when they were
students in 1896: A12
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A53
A SEGREGATED GREEK SYSTEM
The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa is studying why, at a
time of rising black enrollment, its fraternities and
sororities remain entirely white or entirely black: A54
COMPUTERS FOR ALL
Students are required to own the machines at a few dozen
colleges. Wake Forest University officials are among those who
say the requirement is a success: A33
- THE JOB-MARKET FORECAST is rosy for Class of '98, according
to the National Association of Colleges and Employers: A54
- AN OUTBREAK OF LICE has people scratching their heads at
Williams College: A54
- THE SPONSOR of the Law School Admissions Test has agreed to
allow blind students to practice with people assigned to
read the test to them: A10
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME students held a silent
demonstration during a football game to protest the use of
land mines around the world: A10
- AS A GIFT to the incoming president of Rivier College, more
than 500 students performed community service: A12
PRESERVING THE BALANCE
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is considered
one of the leading institutions in the country at achieving top
rankings in sports and academics: A56
GENDER EQUITY IN SALARIES
The U.S. Justice Department has started an investigation into
whether Division I colleges and universities illegally pay
coaches of men's teams more than coaches of women's teams: A58
FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES IN ISRAEL
Branch campuses are opening amid a rising demand for higher
education, but some educators question the quality of the new
programs: A59
POLAND'S NEW CONSTITUTION
Universities are pushing for the right to charge tuition, which
many of them, unofficially, already do: A60
UNDERSTANDING THE JUDICIARY
A team of scholars from the Chinese University of Political
Science and Law is compiling a dictionary of American and
British legal terms: A61
A PROFESSOR RESIGNS
Norwich University, in Vermont, is being criticized for
enrolling students from Indonesia's military, which frequently
has been accused of human-rights abuses: A61
LEARNING AND IDENTITY IN TANZANIA
The Masai are hovering between their old world and a new one in
which education plays a part, writes Francis Slakey, an
adjunct professor of physics at Georgetown University: A72
DIVERSITY FOR THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS
The United States is represented abroad by foreign-service
officers who do not reflect the multiracial composition of its
society, writes Allan E. Goodman, executive dean of the School
of Foreign Service at Georgetown University: B6
- HUNGARY AND ROMANIA have agreed on a plan to open a
Hungarian-language university to serve Romania's
ethnic-Hungarian minority: A59
- YASIR ARAFAT has ordered the release from custody of a
Palestinian academic who criticized Mr. Arafat's
administration: A59
LEARNING AND IDENTITY IN TANZANIA
The Masai are hovering between their old world and a new one in
which education plays a part, writes Francis Slakey, an
adjunct professor of physics at Georgetown University: A72
THE TROUBLE WITH MEMOIR
If you succeed in opening up your life in writing, the people
who read you think they've seen into your soul, writes Alice
Kaplan, a professor of Romance studies and literature at Duke
University: B4
DIVERSITY FOR THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS
The United States is represented abroad by foreign-service
officers who do not reflect the multiracial composition of its
society, writes Allan E. Goodman, executive dean of the School
of Foreign Service at Georgetown University: B6
COMETS AND CAREERS
Tales of shattered hopes and dreams by aspiring scientists
brought tears to the eyes of Alan Hale, director of the
Southwest Institute for Space Research: B7
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
BEAUTY AND BRUTALITY
We shudder at some of the photographs by James Nachtwey but
cannot help but admire their artistic qualities, writes Vicki
Goldberg, a photography critic: B8
FROM SPIRITUALS TO THE BLUES
The exhibition "Seeing Jazz: Artists and Writers on Jazz" is at
the Smithsonian Institution's International Gallery through
January 19: B100
- THE U.S. SUPREME COURT has agreed to rule on the legality of
the National Endowment for the Arts' anti-obscenity
standards for grant recipients: A43
- A SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS student won the logo contest for the
New York City Marathon: A10
- POETRY: "Academic Tectonics," by Tenaya Darlington: B11
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE: PAGES A62-71
"BULLETIN BOARD": 88 PAGES OF JOB OPENINGS
DETAILS OF MORE THAN 1,190 AVAILABLE POSTS, including
teaching and research positions in higher education,
administrative and executive jobs, and openings outside
academe: B12-99
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