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THE FACULTY
BAD BLOOD IN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
The rift between composition and literature instructors
continues to divide faculty members, some of whom are trying
new approaches to mending it: A14
BACK TO WORK
A former California University of Pennsylvania professor won
an order reinstating him to his position -- the second such
finding there in nine months: A16
A DEAN AT 30
Maya L. Harris is helping to unify the divided faculty of
Lincoln Law School, a non-traditional institution in San Jose,
Cal. She may be the youngest law-school dean in the nation: A12
LABOR DISPUTE IN CANADA
Faculty members at Acadia University have ceased participating
in an ambitious program to use technology and the Internet in
their courses: A56
- JANE GALLOP, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at
Milwaukee and the author of Feminist Accused of Sexual
Harassment, is still defending her view that having sex with
students is not wrong. The discussion is taking place on an e-mail list: A14
- HAMMING IT UP helps students learn, a Johns Hopkins
University professor writes in his new book, Professors Are
From Mars, Students Are From Snickers: A14
- ADJUNCT PROFESSORS at Chicago's Columbia College have voted
to unionize: A16
- A PROFESSOR WHO CRITICIZED Bluefield State College's record
on minority hiring has lost his job at the West Virginia
institution: A16
- A FEDERAL JUDGE has ordered the University of the District
of Columbia to honor its labor agreement with 125 professors
who were laid off in 1997, during a financial crisis: A16
- THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN at Whitewater has barred a
tenured professor from setting foot on the campus following
a sexual-harassment charge against him: A16
- A MERRIMACK COLLEGE mathematics professor uses origami to
demonstrate geometric patterns to his students: A10
- PEER REVIEW: A58
- Mark Strand, a former Poet Laureate of the United States,
will leave the Johns Hopkins University for the
University of Chicago.
- Princeton University has lured a renowned specialist in
Jewish studies from Germany to head its new Institute for
Judaic Studies.
- A political scientist who was denied tenure at Harvard
University has turned down an offer from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
ECOLOGY IN THE CITY
Biologists are working with social scientists in Phoenix and
Baltimore to study urban environments and how they change
depending on the rate and type of development: A18
CLASS ACTING
A book by Steven J. Ross, a labor historian at the University
of Southern California, traces the hidden history of what he
calls "oppositional cinema," which featured "cross-class" films
and took a working-class perspective: A19
FOLLOWING THE DEAD
Julie Rugg, an urban-studies scholar at Britain's University of York, specializes in how and where the dead in England
are buried: B2
- FOSSILS UNEARTHED in China are the remains of the most
ancient animals ever found -- almost 600 million years old:
A22
- FAULTY PROTEIN SYNTHESIS may explain the mechanism behind a
degenerative prion-related brain disease, scientists say:
A23
- AN ANALYSIS of the oldest-known specimen of the AIDS virus,
dating from 1959, suggests that the virus evolved in the
1940s or 1950s, according to researchers: A23
- RESEARCHERS HAVE FOUND a new way to diagnose heart attacks
quickly and accurately: A23
- A UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT anthropologist and his students have
uncovered an ancient burial jar in the British West Indies
that may have clues to two past civilizations: A10
- HOT TYPE: A23
- Angela Y. Davis, the long-time black activist and
professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz,
has written a new book about the blues and black
feminists.
- A Yale University professor's book will analyze the lives
of several noted black men.
- 79 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A24-27
- Nota Bene: Sound States: Innovative Poetics and
Acoustical Technologies, edited by Adalaide Morris, a
professor of English at the University of Iowa. The book
is published by the University of North Carolina Press.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
A CONTROVERSIAL REQUIREMENT
Graduate students' theses at Virginia Tech must be submitted in
digital form, making them easier to disseminate and enabling
their enhancement with pictures and sound. But critics fear
that the role of peer review is being ignored, and that the
students' ability to publish in print will be threatened: A29
NO COMPETITIVE THREAT?
Multinational media companies probably do not intend to compete
with academe in the distance-education market, an Australian
report says: A31
FLIGHT PATTERNS
David Anderson, a professor at Wake Forest University, is
encouraging elementary-school students to use his World-Wide
Web site to follow along as he tracks Hawaiian albatrosses: A32
LOOKING AT RESULTS
Educators in a recent on-line forum explored whether
interactivity really works in electronic classrooms: A32
ANOTHER DELAY FOR TECHNOLOGY DEAL
California State University has once again been forced to put
off a controversial pact with four major corporations: A33
NEW OVERSEER?
The Clinton Administration's proposal to change how Internet
addresses are allocated and maintained includes the
transferring of control over the ".edu" domain to an unspecified
non-profit group: A33
COMPUTERS AND LANGUAGE
E-mail affects our reading as well as our writing, and often
not for the better, writes Ben Yagoda, an associate professor
of English at the University of Delaware: B6
ENCOUNTERS IN CYBERSPACE
Far from intruding on teaching, computers can foster a livelier
intellectual exchange between professors and students, writes
James J. O'Donnell, a professor of classical studies and
vice-provost of information systems and computing at the
University of Pennsylvania: B7
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
THE CLINTON BUDGET PLAN FOR 1999
In education, the President is placing a priority on elementary
and secondary schools, and is proposing only modest increases
in student aid: A37
- The President's plan would make spending on science and
technology -- in particular, the National Institutes of
Health -- a top federal priority: A38
- Congress may be more receptive this year than in the past to the President's proposed increase in spending on the
arts and humanities endowments: A42
- Tables and charts provide a detailed breakdown of the budget plan for higher education and research: A40-41
NEW PROGRAM AT HUMANITIES ENDOWMENT
William R. Ferris, Jr., the new chairman, wants to create a
network of centers that would support research on the cultures
of various regions of the United States: A44
POLITICAL MANEUVERING
Vincent A. Fulginiti, the chancellor of the University of
Colorado Health Sciences Center, says he is quitting because of
state legislators' "intrusion" into a dispute over a cancer
specialist: A45
CALCULATING ELIGIBILITY FOR AID
The White House and Congressional Republicans are at odds over
an Administration plan to change the system for assessing
students' eligibility for federal financial aid: A46
FIRST AMENDMENT CHALLENGE
Five students have sued the University of Minnesota for
requiring them to pay fees that support campus organizations
whose purposes the students oppose: A47
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
A CAPSTONE POSITION
Walter E. Massey says he wants to use his presidency of
Morehouse College to turn the institution into one of the best
liberal-arts colleges in the United States: A49
HELP FOR THE HUMANITIES
New grants to the American Council of Learned Societies will
help it increase the size of its fellowships: A51
MILLIONS FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
A California entrepreneur has given $100-million to the
University of Southern California and said he plans an equal
donation to the University of California at Los Angeles: A51
STUDENTS
MODERNIZING CAMPUS HOUSING
Colleges are undertaking expensive improvements in their
dormitories, making them more like the off-campus apartments
that are popular with students: A52
FOLLOWING PRINCETON'S MOVE
Yale University announced that it, too, will spend millions
more on financial aid, resulting in larger awards to students:
A54
- A LOS ANGELES MAN has pleaded guilty to encoding the answers
to graduate-school admissions tests on pencils, which he
sold for as much as $9,000 each: A12
- A RADIO SHOW run by a Northwestern University senior
provides hip financial tips to twentysomethings: A52
- THE WINNERS OF A BAKE-OFF will get scholarships to the
Culinary Institute of America: A52
ATHLETICS
ACADEMIC STANDARDS
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has reported an
increase in the percentages of black and needy students who
were denied initial eligibility to compete in college sports:
A54
INTERNATIONAL
AN OBSTACLE FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS?
Many educators are worried about the impact of changes being
made to the Test of English as a Foreign Language, which
determines the level of English proficiency of incoming foreign
students: A55
LABOR DISPUTE IN CANADA
Faculty members at Acadia University have ceased participating
in an ambitious program to use technology and the Internet in
their courses: A56
PUSH FOR DIVERSITY
A University of Oxford commission has recommended that the
institution recruit more heavily in secondary schools other
than the elite ones that its students have traditionally come
from: A57
TIME FOR REFORM IN RUSSIA
Educators endorsed President Boris Yeltsin's statements on the
need for major changes for higher education, but many wonder if
he can do much about it: A57
THE I.R.S. AND FOREIGN STUDENTS
The agency has dropped the silly requirement that all the
students had to file tax returns, even if they had no U.S.
income, writes John A. Bogdanski, a professor of law at Lewis
and Clark Law School and a former member of the Commissioner's
Advisory Group of the Internal Revenue Service: B8
OPINION & LETTERS
THE LESSONS OF VIETNAM
Academics need to recognize and to continue to teach about the
far-reaching ramifications of the war, writes Allan E. Goodman,
executive dean of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown
University: A68
THE DEBATE OVER HUMAN CLONING
Policy makers have failed to examine issues already raised by
the unregulated introduction of new reproductive technologies,
writes Lori B. Andrews, a law professor at the University of
Chicago-Kent College of Law and a fellow at the Institute for
Science, Law, and Technology, both at the Illinois Institute of
Technology: B4
COMPUTERS AND LANGUAGE
E-mail affects our reading as well as our writing, and often
not for the better, writes Ben Yagoda, an associate professor
of English at the University of Delaware: B6
ENCOUNTERS IN CYBERSPACE
Far from intruding on teaching, computers can foster a livelier
intellectual exchange between professors and students, writes
James J. O'Donnell, a professor of classical studies and
vice-provost of information systems and computing at the
University of Pennsylvania: B7
THE I.R.S. AND FOREIGN STUDENTS
The agency has dropped the silly requirement that all the
students had to file tax returns, even if they had no U.S.
income, writes John A. Bogdanski, a professor of law at Lewis
and Clark Law School and a former member of the Commissioner's
Advisory Group of the Internal Revenue Service: B8
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
JUDGING A BOOK BY ITS COVER
An exhibition of gold-stamped bindings of 19th-century books is
on display at Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript
Library: B100
- THE SCHOOL of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has given
eight winners of an art contest money to study abroad: A12
- A MERRIMACK COLLEGE mathematics professor uses origami to
demonstrate geometric patterns to his students: A10
- THE OLDEST BUILDING at the University of Mississippi will
adorn a post card as part of a year-long series by the U.S.
Postal Service featuring historic buildings at colleges: A10
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE: PAGES A58-67
"BULLETIN BOARD": 88 PAGES OF JOB OPENINGS
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