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From the issue dated October 26, 2007 |
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Short SubjectsPLUCK THE IVIESAt a recent debate, two serious men discussed the wisdom of replacing Harvard, Yale, and Princeton with luxury condos. LIKE COALS TO NEWCASTLE? Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller teach college students about sex. GAMBLING ON STUDENTS: A Harvard law professor has formed an organization that is setting out to prove that poker is the perfect game to teach college students how to take risks, manage resources, and understand probability. THE POWER OF THE SELF: An MFA student is commuting to California State University at Long Beach through various self-powered means as part of an ecological art project. FIGHTIN' WORDS: The soap opera Desperate Housewives has caused outrage in the Philippines because of a character's comment about the quality of medical schools there. WHAT THEY'RE READING ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES: A list of the best-selling books. The FacultyHOW AM I DOING?Professors willingly turn to students for teaching critiques at Brigham Young University. SPORTING DEBATE: Faculty members meet to discuss whether they should play a stronger role in intercollegiate athletics. COSTUME CHANGE: Tri-State University redresses its image problem by dropping a draconian new clothing code. PEER REVIEW: Brown University appoints a Harvard law professor to the newly created post of vice president for international affairs. ... The vice chancellor of the University of Cape Town is stepping down. ... The president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy will take over the helm of the Lumina Foundation for Education. ... Harold Ford Jr., the former Tennessee congressman, will be a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Research & BooksA CLIMATE FOR CHANGEAl Gore's Nobel Peace Prize reflects work by many academics, and some believe it will make colleges and universities more receptive to green issues. MECHANISM-DESIGN THEORY: The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science will be awarded to three scholars who have studied the efficiency of auctions. VERBATIM: A law professor in Texas talks about challenging the constitutionality of lethal injection as a means of execution. NOTA BENE: The historical plight of the abandoned Jewish wife is explored by an emerita professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Government & PoliticsPENALTIES WITH BITEAs more laboratories are cited for violations of animal-care rules, Congress considers higher fines. NO STRATEGY YETThe higher-education policies of Fred Thompson, who entered the presidential campaign late, remain largely a mystery. TROTTING OUT THE PORK: Several Republican presidential candidates, but only one Democrat, have disclosed all of their earmark requests for this year. CHEAP DATE: The new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse has decided to keep his inauguration simple and inexpensive. TAKING NEW AIM: Andrew M. Cuomo, New York State's attorney general, has issued 33 subpoenas to loan companies that he suspects used misleading marketing to students. WHOSE BEST INTERESTS? Sallie Mae backs off from its recent demands to colleges for students' personal information. HIRING IDEAS: Several higher-education leaders have testified before Congress on the continuing underrepresentation of women in tenured science professorships. $17.6-MILLION LATER: A loan-servicing company reports that it has been inadvertently overbilling the U.S. Education Department for a decade. NO AND NO: California's governor has vetoed bills intended to make college more affordable for many illegal immigrants and to curb executive-compensation packages for California State University administrators. THE DEAL'S OFF: The University of California has decided to cancel an arrangement with Capella University in which it paid $500 per student transfer from California's Berkeley and Irvine campuses. Money & Management'A LONG WAY TO GO'A year after its turmoil, Gallaudet University has made progress but still faces accreditation problems. SECOND THOUGHTS: Columbia Union College backs out of a deal to sell its religious radio station. UNUSUAL REQUEST: A big gift to Albertson College comes with an unnaming requirement. TO BE RETRIED: The financial-mismanagement trial of a former president of Texas Southern University has ended in a hung jury. NO PENALTY: A faculty committee at Southern Illinois University has concluded that the president committed "inadvertent plagiarism" in his doctoral dissertation. PHYSICIAN, YOU KNOW THE DRILL: Nearly two-thirds of medical-school chairmen have potential conflicts of interest, a survey finds. PRESIDENT DIES: The president of Murray State College, in Oklahoma, was killed in an automobile accident. PLATINUM PROJECTS: Two new buildings at Ithaca College will meet high standards of environmental responsibility. ARCHITECTURE NOTES: Building news in higher education. Information TechnologyHISTORY MEETS TECHNOLOGYHarvard's mission to transform humanities teaching leads students on a digital voyage with a Shakespeare scholar. REACH OUT AND TEXT: Bucknell University has rolled out a text-messaging service for its alumni's cellphones. TECH THERAPY: How second-grade schoolchildren can teach IT staff members how to make themselves understood to college presidents. THE WIRED CAMPUS: Technology news in higher education. StudentsPROFESSIONAL ADVICE ON COLLEGE COSTSMore and more families are turning to financial-aid planners to help figure out how to pay for their children's higher education. AGING DEMAND: Despite demographic barriers, older adults are using higher education in greater numbers, a study has found. ENROLLMENT BOOM: The number of first-year students in the nation's medical schools reached an all-time high this year, according to newly reported figures. AthleticsALL ABOUT THE GAMEThe University of Oregon's success in athletics fund raising has some faculty members crying foul. InternationalA WELCOME EXCHANGEThis year's Fulbright awards include a new prize to bring foreign students to the United States for graduate work in science and technology. MEETING OF THE MINDS: Emory University, which welcomes the Dalai Lama this month, has arranged to teach science to Tibetan Buddhist monastics in India. OVER THE SEA: American for-profit education providers are heading to Britain. KEEP OUT: Palestinian students are still barred from attending Israeli universities, despite a Supreme Court challenge. NEW CLASSIFICATION URGED: Two groups have recommended a complete overhaul of the British undergraduate-degree system. OVERSEAS EXPANSION: New York University plans to open a campus in Abu Dhabi. Notes From AcademeSLAVIC SALVATIONA scholar of Russian language and literature put his freedom on the line against two autocratic regimes in the former Yugoslavia, and has survived to savor the results. Special Supplement: Community CollegesA 2-YEAR HEAD STARTCommunity colleges are putting renewed emphasis on helping their students succeed. A look at four students who managed to stay in college despite daunting obstacles. DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESSTwo competing visions of education help explain the tension between jobs and ideas that all community colleges grapple with, M. Garrett Bauman writes. NEW MATHSome colleges are trying new ways to move students more quickly and smoothly through remedial math. CAMPUS TREASUREInstructors at City College of San Francisco make the college's Diego Rivera mural an everyday part of the curriculum. OFF THE BEATEN TRACKIn rural areas, arts programs at colleges provide a rich diet for culture-starved residents. 12 TEACHING TIPS: Community-college instructors offer ideas for the classroom. GOOD CITIZENSHIP: Most community-college leaders give little thought to the role their colleges play in their communities, George B. Vaughan says. NONTRADITIONAL LEARNERS: Colleges are not keeping up with changes in the way adults pursue their education, says Charlene R. Nunley. SCARCE INFORMATION: Students need to know much more about how to transfer to four-year institutions, Stephen J. Handel writes. BOILING POINT: Bob Blaisdell reflects on the day he lost it in front of his students. A SPECIAL ROLE: Rural community colleges are meeting the needs of a changing and increasingly diverse population, Stephen G. Katsinas says. INFLUENCE OVERSEAS: Community colleges can play an important role in fostering world peace, writes David J. Smith. CLASSROOM OBSESSIONS: Charlotte Laws says that too many instructors emphasize grades and attendance, to the detriment of creativity and responsibility. CHALLENGES OF POVERTY: Kathleen Sheerin DeVore says it is her job to help students complete their assignments amid the chaos of their lives. ATTENTION BILLIONAIRES: Big donors should consider giving to community colleges if they really want to help the nation's students, writes Catherine Stukel. Letters to the EditorChronicle CareersDON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS EDITORShouldn't untenured junior faculty members be writing books, not editing them? SURVIVING FACULTY MEETINGSThey're not really about getting things done, they're about appreciating your colleagues in all their wondrous variety. IT'S NOT YOUStudents plagiarize for their own reasons; it's a mistake for a professor to take it personally. 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