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From the issue dated October 5, 2001
THE FACULTY
TESTING FREE SPEECH
Academic freedom takes a blow in the wake of the attacks, as administrators and students try to suppress speech by faculty members that they deem offensive.
COGNITIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE
Mental events provide the defining problems of the social sciences, so cognitive and social scientists should form an alliance, writes a professor of English and faculty member in neuroscience and cognitive science at the U. of Maryland at College Park.
INTERNSHIP FOR TEACHING
Many universities have postdoctoral positions for research. Why not a predoctoral year of teaching, asks Joseph C. Burke, director of the higher-education program of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State U. of New York at Albany.
FORECASTS FOR THE CURRICULUM
Meteorology and oceanography should be standard science offerings at liberal-arts colleges, write three scientists.
TENURE REVIEW
Is it hypocritical for academic economists to teach the value of flexible labor markets and still seek tenure, ask two professors at Columbia U.
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- LEER REVIEW: A Stanford U. cardiologist has provoked controversy by buying two Las Vegas strip clubs and saying their profits will help support university research.
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- PEER REVIEW: A center for women and gender studies closes at the U. of Texas at San Antonio. ... The presidency of two colleges in Mississippi is a family affair.
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- PRIME NUMBERS: Investigators of last month's terrorist attacks say they need Arabic speakers, but few students are learning the language.
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- SYLLABUS: In "Twentieth-Century Analysis," Anthony K. Brandt teaches students of music theory at Rice U. how to appreciate the unexpected.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
A DRIVEN SCHOLAR
Martha Nussbaum's new book on emotions builds on her work in a range of disciplines, periods, and regions.
HARD CASH
Some universities are opting for a single, large payment for patent royalties, rather than the potential of a long-term revenue stream.
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- PIGSKIN PHYSICS: An engineering professor at the State U. of New York at Buffalo has explained a curious tendency of footballs in flight.
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- HOT TYPE: Scholars are debating which new anthology of Hispanic literature is more comprehensive. ... The American Bar Association and the Federalist Society are using academics as proxies in a shadow war over judicial nominations.
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- NOTA BENE: In While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers, Steven E. Woodworth explores the religious musings of those who fought on both sides.
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- DRUG DISPUTE: The U. of New Mexico has prevailed in a dispute with two researchers over the ownership of a potential cancer therapy.
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- A JOINT POLICY: Twelve medical journals agree to reject papers from authors with overly close ties to businesses.
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- NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
IN THE SHADE
Public colleges are increasingly clashing with the news media over compliance with state sunshine laws.
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- HOT TYPE: Scholars are debating which new anthology of Hispanic literature is more comprehensive. ... The American Bar Association and the Federalist Society are using academics as proxies in a shadow war over
judicial nominations.
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- GEAR UP GEARS DOWN: The Education Department awarded only six grants through the program, compared with 80 last year.
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- PRESSING THE PRESIDENT: Universities that receive funds through GEARUP are calling for more money for the program.
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- DUAL ADMISSIONS DELAYED: The U. of California has put off a plan to increase minority enrollment.
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- AID FAILURE: A generous student-grant program in California is not reaching many needy students.
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- SHALLOW FOOTPRINTS: As the National Bioethics Advisory Commission ends its work, ethicists say it had relatively little influence.
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- LAWSUIT BROADENS: The U. of Wisconsin at Madison is expanding a suit over the rights to products generated by stem-cell research.
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
HARD CASH
Some universities are opting for a single, large payment for patent royalties, rather than the potential of a long-term revenue stream.
PRESTIGE OR REPUTATION?
A recent study of how colleges serve their constituents indicates that an institution's success depends in large part on which path it pursues, write three economists at the RAND Corporation.
POLITICS BETWEEN THE LINES
The president of the U. of Iowa says the most powerful job on the campus belongs to Dave Ricketts. Why? Because he parcels out the parking spaces.
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- PEER REVIEW: A center for women and gender studies closes at the U. of Texas at San Antonio. ... The presidency of two colleges in Mississippi is a family affair.
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- LOOKING UP: Enrollment is on the rise at Loyola U. Chicago, thanks to a scholarship it offered to graduates of all Jesuit and local Catholic high schools.
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- DRUG DISPUTE: The U. of New Mexico has prevailed in a dispute with two researchers over the ownership of a potential cancer therapy.
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- A JOINT POLICY: Twelve medical journals agree to reject papers from authors with overly close ties to businesses.
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- DAMAGE ASSESSMENT: Moody's Investors Service predicts that some urban private colleges may suffer in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
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- GETTING UP TO SPEED: Colleges put off their fund-raising efforts after September 11, and now want to pursue their goals without seeming callous.
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- FOUNDATION GRANTS; GIFTS AND BEQUESTS
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
LOWER EXPECTATIONS
For online M.B.A. programs, enrollments are small and business deals are falling through.
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- BRINGING OUT THE WORDS: New imaging technology is aiding in the rescue of ancient inscribed stories from near-unreadability.
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- HIDDEN PROVIDER: A San Diego company that most students have never heard of has become one of the biggest names in continuing education.
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- PALACE OF BITS AND BYTES: A professor of classics at SUNY at Buffalo aims to digitally recreate one of the masterpieces of ancient Assyrian architecture.
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- CENTRAL LOCATION: Three Colorado colleges are sharing one campus, two grants, and 200 high-tech classrooms.
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- LOGGING IN: Dismayed by what he perceives as a liberal bias in American higher education, Richard J. Bishirjian has created Yorktown U., an online institution tailored for conservatives.
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- VICTORY OF THE AIRWAVES: The Federal Communications Commission announced that it will not oust educational broadcasters from their radio spectrum to make way for Web-surfing cell phones and other new mobile devices.
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- SVENSKA U. ONLINE: Sweden is creating a nationwide virtual university using courses from public institutions.
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- VIRTUAL U. IN PAKISTAN: The country is starting an online university to train more people in information technology.
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- MUSLIM SUPPORT: A new distance-education venture in Indonesia is backed by an Islamic intellectual group.
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- ONLINE RAGTIME: A digital archive of works from the Templeton Sheet Music Collection is a virtual walk through Tin Pan Alley.
STUDENTS
VOICES OF THEIR OWN
The Independent Women's Forum is sponsoring campus groups to challenge feminist ideas.
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- GET REAL: The Community Colleges of Spokane backpedaled furiously when it was revealed that the centerpiece of a recruiting campaign was a made-up student.
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- GROUNDS FOR REMOVAL? Students at the U. of Tennessee at Knoxville are protesting a Starbucks coffee bar that was recently installed at the library.
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- FUTURE SHOCK: An eight-day session for M.B.A. students at Indiana U.'s Kelley School of Business has students play executives in a grueling set of staged management crises.
ATHLETICS
GRAPPLING WITH CONTROVERSY
The U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities' wrestling coach is under investigation for misusing university funds to promote a personal cause.
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- CHARIOT OF THE QUADS: Michigan State U. has a new halftime centerpiece at football games. It has disk brakes and is drawn by two Andalusian horses.
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- THE BIG GOOSE EGG: After Canada's Mount Allison U. lost a football game, 105-0, the campus was riven with debate over athletics versus academics.
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- DEATH ON THE ROAD: The U. of Wyoming is mourning eight athletes who were killed in an automobile accident.
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- SPORTS CUTS: The U. of Vermont said it would eliminate 5 of its 27 teams in order to save money and comply with a gender-equity law.
INTERNATIONAL
ARAB STUDENTS STREAM HOME
Pressured by their parents and in the face of growing hostility on American campuses, many are abandoning their studies to return to the Middle East.
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- SVENSKA U. ONLINE: Sweden is creating a nationwide virtual university using courses from public institutions.
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- VIRTUAL U. IN PAKISTAN: The country is starting an online university to train more people in information technology.
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- MUSLIM SUPPORT: A new distance-education venture in Indonesia is backed by an Islamic intellectual group.
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- WORLD BEAT: A report says a shift to a corporate style of management has diminished morale at South African higher-education institutions. ... A Canadian woman died while under detention in her home after being convicted of receiving welfare and student aid at the same time.
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- STUDENT SHORTAGE: A report says there aren't enough British Ph.D. candidates to fill faculty vacancies in certain fields.
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- PROTEST CANCELED: A Maoist student group called off a strike in Katmandu, Nepal.
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- ROOTS OF A MASSACRE: Peru's attorney general has accused Alberto Fujimori, the country's former president, of authorizing the deaths of nine students and a professor in 1992.
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- BACK FROM THE CHAIN GANG: Hundreds of Eritrean students have returned to the U. of Asmara after being forced to spend weeks working at a remote spot where two died.
CHRONICLE REVIEW
THE FRACTURED LANDSCAPE
Teaching, reading, and writing in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
COGNITIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE
Mental events provide the defining problems of the social sciences, so cognitive and social scientists should form an alliance, writes a professor of English and faculty member in neuroscience and cognitive science at the U. of Maryland at College Park.
PRESTIGE OR REPUTATION?
A recent study of how colleges serve their constituents indicates that an institution's success depends in large part on which path it pursues, write three economists at the RAND Corporation.
INTERNSHIP FOR TEACHING
Many universities have postdoctoral positions for research. Why not a predoctoral year of teaching, asks Joseph C. Burke, director of the higher-education program of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State U. of New York at Albany.
FORECASTS FOR THE CURRICULUM
Meteorology and oceanography should be standard science offerings at liberal-arts colleges, write three scientists.
HEWN FROM THE HEART
A collection of photographs by David Scheinbaum, a professor of art at the College of Santa Fe, explores people's use of stone through the ages.
TENURE REVIEW
Is it hypocritical for academic economists to teach the value of flexible labor markets and still seek tenure, ask two professors at Columbia U.
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- MELANGE: Selections from recent books of interest to academe.
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