FIGHTING FOR MONEY AND BENEFITS
Three lawsuits against the community-college system in Washington State reflect the growing impatience of part-time faculty members nationwide over their treatment: A16

A CONTROVERSIAL PROFESSOR DEPARTS
Kelly Dennis and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago have reached an agreement to resolve her grievances and end her employment there: A18

A CURB ON CHEATING
A new report urges colleges to be clearer about how they define academic integrity and why it is important: A18

PEER REVIEW
The dean of the University of Texas law school, weary of the effects of the Hopwood case, resigns. ... Smith College selects a man to lead the first engineering program at a women's college. ... The director of Harvard's herbaria moves to Yale: A14

SOUL-SEARCHING IN SOCIOLOGY
Joe R. Feagin, president of the American Sociological Association and a University of Florida sociologist, writes that a model for society can emerge from the profession's disputes: B4

A COMMUNICATION PROFESSOR at Illinois State University, recovering from a stroke that once left him paralyzed and speechless, is now back in the classroom and teaching public speaking: A16

A PURDUE UNIVERSITY professor is using his World-Wide Web site to take a stand against companies that provide lecture notes to students: A45

VICE-PRESIDENT GORE'S Presidential candidacy won the endorsement of the American Federation of Teachers: A37

CAN WE AVERT TECHNOLOGICAL DISASTERS?
In new and revised books, sociologists who study accidents and risk examine the cultural reasons for meltdowns, chemical leaks, and plane crashes: A19

• Charles Perrow, whose landmark book on technical catastrophes is being reissued, is not afraid of flying but has mixed feelings about Y2K: A20

HOT TYPE
A new book dispels American political myths and "outs" President James Buchanan. ... The inaugural issue of the University of Virginia's Hedgehog Review explores questions of identity: A22

SCIENTISTS HAVE IDENTIFIED key genes in the bacterium that causes tuberculosis: A22

HIGH LEVELS of testosterone in pregnant women who smoke make it more likely that their daughters will also smoke, researchers have found: A22

A PROTEIN THAT ACTS as a sort of cologne hastens the courtship time of one species of salamander, according to new research: A22

NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS: A24-28

• Nota Bene: On Beauty and Being Just, by Elaine Scarry.

• Verbatim: Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power, by Timothy B. Tyson.

THE BUNTING INSTITUTE at Radcliffe College has appointed 38 women as 1999-2000 fellows: A67

THE GETTY GRANT PROGRAM has announced the names of the recipients of 1999-2000 J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art and the Humanities: A68

THE WOODROW WILSON National Fellowship Foundation has named the winners of the 1999 Woodrow Wilson-Johnson & Johnson Dissertation Grants in Women's and Children's Health: A68

REACHING OUT TO ALUMNI
Colleges are attempting to form tighter relationships with their graduates via e-mail discussion groups, Web sites, Web cameras, on-line courses, and searchable alumni directories: A45

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A new World-Wide Web site provides a matchmaking service that lets people with technical queries find experts to pay for assistance: A49

'I-CAMPUS'
In a $25-million deal, the Microsoft Corporation will underwrite research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop information technology for use in university education: A50

BRAIN DRAIN IN AUSTRALIA
More graduates in information technology are deciding to make their fortunes in industry and academe abroad: A65

MCLUHAN FOR THE MILLENNIUM
Paul Levinson, president of a distance-learning company and a visiting professor at Fordham University, reveals how the Canadian media expert anticipated the on-line "village" of today: B10

A PURDUE UNIVERSITY professor is using his World-Wide Web site to take a stand against companies that provide lecture notes to students: A45

AN ON-LINE SERVICE sponsored by a University of Wisconsin center helps parents of developmentally disabled children: A49

LEVELING THE FIELD
A National Science Foundation program has helped small and rural states win more research funds, but some experts say that the beneficiaries have grown too reliant on it: A31

TRANSITION AT THE N.I.H.
Harold E. Varmus will leave the directorship to become president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in New York: A34

SENATE APPROVES MEDICAL-RESEARCH FUNDS
Legislation providing a $2-billion increase for the National Institutes of Health and $200 more for the maximum Pell Grant passed in that chamber, but progress on the House of Representatives' version is stalled: A36

AVOIDING A FIGHT OVER STEM CELLS
Contrary to earlier threats, Republican leaders in Congress suggested that they would not hold up spending bills for biomedical programs: A36

FALLING DEFAULT RATE
The proportion of borrowers who defaulted on student loans within 12 to 24 months of leaving college in 1997 fell to 8.8 per cent, compared with 9.6 per cent in 1996: A38

DISPUTE OVER A FEDERAL LABORATORY
Many scientists are opposing a bid by Florida State University to drop its partners in running a National Science Foundation center on magnetic research: A39

CONTROVERSY AT UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
The institution's Board of Visitors has recommended that administrators find alternatives to racial preferences in admissions, but many students and faculty members support affirmative action: A40

FIGHTING FOR MONEY AND BENEFITS
Three lawsuits against the community-college system in Washington State reflect the growing impatience of part-time faculty members nationwide over their treatment: A16

ENDING REMEDIATION at the City University of New York's senior colleges won't hurt needy students and will improve the system's academic standards, a report says: A31

THE CHIEF LOBBYIST at the Association of American Universities has become the National Institutes of Health's budget director: A31

IN AN EXPERIMENT, the Environmental Protection Agency will bend its rules governing the disposal of chemical waste for three colleges in New England: A37

THE OFFICIAL who oversees the Department of Energy's financing of university-based civilian research announced she would resign in December: A37

VICE-PRESIDENT GORE'S Presidential candidacy won the endorsement of the American Federation of Teachers: A37

INCOME COLLEGES DERIVE from the issuance of "affinity" credit cards is not taxable, a federal appeals court has ruled: A38

AS THE UNITED STATES Information Agency was officially folded into the State Department, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright spoke out on the importance of its programs: A63

COLA WARS
As Coke and Pepsi engage in a "duel to the death" for exclusive deals on campuses nationwide, colleges are making money and raising some worries as well: A41

A MILLION DOLLARS A DAY
Harvard University announced that it had pulled in more than $2.32-billion in a campaign that started in 1994: A43

TUITION AND FEES
The average cost of attending college is up by less than 5 per cent this year, but it still outpaces inflation: A52

• Fact File: tuition and fees at more than 3,000 colleges and universities: A53-59

SOME COLLEGES are seeking to capitalize on millennial worries by merchandising special Y2K apparel: A41

WHAT'S THE BUZZ? The Georgia Institute of Technology has filed a lawsuit over a baseball team's apian mascot, which resembles the institute's own: A41

INCOME COLLEGES DERIVE from the issuance of "affinity" credit cards is not taxable, a federal appeals court has ruled: A38

SHORT SUBJECTS: Guerrilla artist tackles Apple at SUNY-Buffalo; Harvard is crimson-faced over duplicate documents; University of Texas keeps its eyes on King statue; Texas Tech takes God out of football game; Scholarships are baked up at Washington State; University of Maryland official is suspect in "Presidential" bank heist: A12

BOND-RATING UPDATE for September 1999: A43

FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A42

TUITION AND FEES
The average cost of attending college is up by less than 5 per cent this year, but it still outpaces inflation: A52

• Fact File: tuition and fees at more than 3,000 colleges and universities: A53-59

A CURB ON CHEATING
A new report urges colleges to be clearer about how they define academic integrity and why it is important: A18

WHY DO STUDENTS CHEAT?
Among the many reasons is that campuses lack a culture of academic integrity, write Donald L. McCabe, a professor at Rutgers University at Newark, and Patrick Drinan, a dean at the University of San Diego: B7

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE may keep some single-sex Greek houses after all: A52

A TEXAS COURT has ruled that a state law requires students to report incidents of hazing that they witness but not hazing that they perform: A52

REVERSAL OF FORTUNES?
Even as Kansas State University's football team ascends and the University of Oklahoma's struggles, little else has changed at the two Midwestern research institutions: A61

IN ARGUMENTS before a U.S. appeals court, the judges questioned whether the National Collegiate Athletic Association receives federal money and so should be subject to a key civil-rights law: A61

REBUILDING AFTER COMMUNISM
In the former East Germany, the University of Rostock reaches out by retraining workers, encouraging entrepreneurs, and sponsoring midnight basketball to keep young people out of trouble: A63

BRAIN DRAIN IN AUSTRALIA
More graduates in information technology are deciding to make their fortunes in industry and academe abroad: A65

FEAR ON WEST BANK CAMPUSES
A human-rights group has criticized the Palestinian Authority for using a network of paid informers to report on universities and students: A66

AS THE UNITED STATES Information Agency was officially folded into the State Department, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright spoke out on the importance of its programs: A63

SERBIAN STUDENTS plan to stage protests in Yugoslavia to disrupt the beginning of the academic year and put pressure on the Milosevic regime: A66

STUDENTS AT BRITAIN'S University of Cambridge are denouncing Prince Philip for remarks condemned as racist: A66

FICTION AS BIOGRAPHY
What passes for history in the public culture is intellectual flotsam, writes Warren Goldstein, an associate professor of history at the University of Hartford. And now comes the "spectacular train wreck" of Edmund Morris's book on Ronald Reagan: A80

SOUL-SEARCHING IN SOCIOLOGY
Joe R. Feagin, president of the American Sociological Association and a University of Florida sociologist, writes that a model for society can emerge from the profession's disputes: B4

WHY DO STUDENTS CHEAT?
Among the many reasons is that campuses lack a culture of academic integrity, write Donald L. McCabe, a professor at Rutgers University at Newark, and Patrick Drinan, a dean at the University of San Diego: B7

ELEMENTS OF STYLE
Ben Yagoda, an associate professor of English at the University of Delaware, reviews the new, expanded edition of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage -- revised for the first time in 23 years -- and finds it no less devoted to exactitude and fairness: B8

MCLUHAN FOR THE MILLENNIUM
Paul Levinson, president of a distance-learning company and a visiting professor at Fordham University, reveals how the Canadian media expert anticipated the on-line "village" of today: B10

MARGINALIA: mistakes, foibles, and other amusements on the lighter side of academe: A12

• Do religious cults on campuses pose serious dangers to students: B3

• The finer points of pro wrestling: B12

• What should the new Radcliffe do?: B12

• Ads and other costs of "free" Web pages: B13

• Major changes needed for "real diversity": B13

• Autumn's clean slate: B13

• PeopleSoft software and blind users: B13

REEL MEDICINE
At the University of California at Los Angeles' Film and Television Archive, a preservation specialist tries to salvage historic and not-so-historic movies -- before they turn to dust: B2

ALL IN THE FAMILY
Photographs by Jack Radcliffe of an unconventional couple and their children are part of "Contemporary Documents," on display at the University of Maryland's Baltimore County campus: B112

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• DEATHS of people in academe.

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