From the issue dated December 10, 2004
THE FACULTY TALKING HAWAIIAN Four professors at the University of Hawaii are leading a fast-growing effort to keep the native language and culture from being drowned out by English. PART-TIME SINGLE PARENT When you love your family and your job, sometimes you have to put pressure on one to enhance the other. A CAREER IN ACADEME: PRICELESS A doctoral student in English wonders if she has been foolish about credit-card debt. WORTH A RECOMMENDATION Writing a letter of reference for a great student is easy, but writing one for a weaker student may mean more to both of you.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING LAB EXPERIMENT Universities hope roomy new open-space work areas for academic science will foster collaboration and innovation. MULTICAMPUS E-SCIENCE Human contact to build trust and share ideas has been lost in electronic collaborations involving several campuses, a study shows. THWACK! A historian tries to save a Mesoamerican game that was widely popular in pre-Columbian times. SHELF LIFE Enjoy a stroll through your campus library's stacks, because their days are numbered, writes Dennis Dillon, associate director for research services at the libraries of the University of Texas at Austin. DIGITAL DOSSIERS While Orwell's 1984 is a useful reflection of some modern privacy concerns, Kafka's The Trial is a more instructive metaphor, writes Daniel J. Solove, an associate professor of law at George Washington University Law School. LIBERALISM'S RISE AND FALL A repudiation of the term in its recent political contexts has obscured its noble heritage, writes John Lukacs, a professor emeritus of history.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL, DON'T RECRUIT Colleges that bar or restrict military recruiting on their campuses cannot be penalized with the loss of federal funds, a federal appeals court has ruled. HARD WON, RARELY USED? A few states now offer in-state tuition to some immigrant students, but they still face many obstacles to getting college degrees. POLL VAULTING Unfortunately, election fraud is an American tradition, writes Tracy Campbell, an associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky.
MONEY & MANAGEMENT CALCULATED RISK Alice Handy made the University of Virginia's endowment more diverse, more sophisticated, and much bigger. Now she has hung out her own shingle. DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL, DON'T RECRUIT Colleges that bar or restrict military recruiting on their campuses cannot be penalized with the loss of federal funds, a federal appeals court has ruled. HELLO, I MUST BE GOING With presidents' terms shorter than ever, colleges should anticipate partings even as they arrange suitable welcomes, write James Martin, a professor of English at Mount Ida College, and James E. Samels, president of the Education Alliance.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MULTICAMPUS E-SCIENCE Human contact to build trust and share ideas has been lost in electronic collaborations involving several campuses, a study shows.
ATHLETICS INSIDE BASKETBALL'S TOP TEAMS Data show that there are many wins, but often few players graduate. THWACK! A historian tries to save a Mesoamerican game that was widely popular in pre-Columbian times.
STUDENTS AN 'A' FOR APPEARANCE David D. Perlmutter, a senior fellow at Louisiana State University's Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs and an associate professor of mass communication, asks, do students' looks affect how professors treat them? HARD WON, RARELY USED? A few states now offer in-state tuition to some immigrant students, but they still face many obstacles to getting college degrees. TROUBLING THOUGHTS Colleges are unprepared to treat the increasing number of mental-health problems among their students, writes Richard D. Kadison, chief of mental health at Harvard University Health Services.
INTERNATIONAL PREPARING FOR UNIVERSITY Ethiopian Jews in Israel are entering a precollege program that teaches them how to study and manage their time.
NOTES FROM ACADEME THWACK! A historian tries to save a Mesoamerican game that was widely popular in pre-Columbian times. THE CHRONICLE REVIEW SHELF LIFE Enjoy a stroll through your campus library's stacks, because their days are numbered, writes Dennis Dillon, associate director for research services at the libraries of the University of Texas at Austin. DIGITAL DOSSIERS While Orwell's 1984 is a useful reflection of some modern privacy concerns, Kafka's The Trial is a more instructive metaphor, writes Daniel J. Solove, an associate professor of law at George Washington University Law School. LIBERALISM'S RISE AND FALL A repudiation of the term in its recent political contexts has obscured its noble heritage, writes John Lukacs, a professor emeritus of history. POLL VAULTING Unfortunately, election fraud is an American tradition, writes Tracy Campbell, an associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky. AN 'A' FOR APPEARANCE David D. Perlmutter, a senior fellow at Louisiana State University's Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs and an associate professor of mass communication, asks, do students' looks affect how professors treat them? HELLO, I MUST BE GOING With presidents' terms shorter than ever, colleges should anticipate partings even as they arrange suitable welcomes, write James Martin, a professor of English at Mount Ida College, and James E. Samels, president of the Education Alliance. A RETURN TO REPRESENTATION The artist/critic Peter Plagens's formalism is considered bad form -- which means that soon it will be all the rage. TROUBLING THOUGHTS Colleges are unprepared to treat the increasing number of mental-health problems among their students, writes Richard D. Kadison, chief of mental health at Harvard University Health Services.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
CHRONICLE CAREERS PART-TIME SINGLE PARENT When you love your family and your job, sometimes you have to put pressure on one to enhance the other. A CAREER IN ACADEME: PRICELESS A doctoral student in English wonders if she has been foolish about credit-card debt. WORTH A RECOMMENDATION Writing a letter of reference for a great student is easy, but writing one for a weaker student may mean more to both of you.
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