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INTERNATIONAL
IN RWANDA, REBUILDING ACADEME
The National University attracts students -- many from other
nations -- as it tries to rebuild after the ethnic warfare that
shut it down in 1994: A53
IN EASTERN EUROPE, SELLING THE LIBERAL ARTS
Academics are trying to convince skeptical students that a
general education can help them get good jobs: A54
IN KUWAIT, UNCERTAINTY ABOUT SEGREGATION
A government plan to separate students by sex faces an unclear
fate following Kuwait's recent elections: A55
IN GREENLAND, RESEARCH REQUESTS
Greenland wants foreign researchers who are studying the island
to share the data they collect with the local population: A18
IN THE U.S., PROBLEMS WITH THE MELTING POT
Scholars must examine why a growing number of Americans are
hostile toward immigrants and must analyze the cost of new
immigration controls, writes Wayne A. Cornelius, a researcher
at the University of California at San Diego: B4
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGE
Scholars are traveling to Greenland to determine why a Norse
settlement disappeared in the 14th century: A15
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- Greenland wants foreign researchers who are studying the
island to share the data they collect with the local
population: A18
A HISTORY OF NUNS
Jo Ann Kay McNamara, a historian at Hunter College and the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York, argues that
members of female religious orders have been misunderstood by
the public and, until recently, ignored by scholars: A20
PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL CONCERNS
HELPING THE PATIENTS
The medical school at Brown University has changed its
curriculum to place more emphasis on the communications skills
that doctors need: A12
NEXT STEP IN THE TENURE DEBATE
The University of Minnesota's Board of Regents changed the
policy for its law school but did not adopt some of the
controversial ideas it had been considering: A13
JOHNS HOPKINS WINS A TENURE BATTLE
An appeals court ruled that the university had not breached its
contract with two professors who were fired: A14
AN ACADEMIC EXPERIMENT
Wellesley College has decided to let its students determine for
themselves which courses satisfy its multicultural requirement:
A14
CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS OF AN EPIDEMIC
A research center at Indiana University develops and
distributes educational materials about AIDS in rural America:
A10
NOTES FROM ACADEME
Carl Lindem, a professor at George Washington University, works
to save a historic aqueduct on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal:
B2
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
CHANGING THE CURRICULUM
A new dean has led the Harvard Business School to invest
heavily in computers and technology: A29
WORRIES ABOUT ACCESS
Some scholarly groups say a treaty that the United States is
expected to sign will make it more difficult for scientists to
use information in data bases: A31
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
THE ELECTIONS AND HIGHER EDUCATION
Election Day 1996 featured many races and results of interest
to higher education: A35-42
- In California, where voters approved a measure to ban
racial and gender preferences at state institutions,
public colleges are weighing what policies they need to
change: A35
- Of the Clinton Administration officials who deal with
higher education, who will stay on for the President's
second term? Colleges are waiting to see: A36
- President Clinton's plans for education and research are
likely to face tough scrutiny from Republican leaders in
Congress: A38
- Polls indicate that Bill Clinton fared much better than
Bob Dole with students and other younger voters: A39
- A list of the higher-education platforms of the winners
of the 1996 gubernatorial elections: A40
- Four academics won seats in the House of Representatives,
but many other professors lost bids to go to Congress:
A41
- Voters in a number of states approved tax measures that
could eventually limit state appropriations for public
universities: A42
- A list of referenda affecting higher education that
appeared on state ballots -- which were approved and
which were defeated: A42
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
A federal appeals court rejected a law requiring the National
Endowment for the Arts to consider "general standards of
decency" in awarding grants: A43
CONCERNS ABOUT A CLINTON FAVORITE
Officials in the federal Office of Management and Budget are
raising questions about the management of the direct-lending
program: A44
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
RIDING THE BULL MARKET
A study has found that college endowments earned an average
return of 17.2 per cent in the fiscal year that ended June 30,
1996: A45
STUDENTS
"FUN" AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO?
Hugo Sonnenschein, the university's president, wants to improve
social life at the institution, which is known for its academic
rigor, in hopes of attracting more undergraduates: A49
U.S. NEWS UNDER FIRE
Student anger over the magazine's college rankings has
escalated into a national movement: A50
AN ACADEMIC EXPERIMENT
Wellesley College has decided to let its students determine for
themselves which courses satisfy its multicultural requirement:
A14
NUTS AND BOLTS OF EDUCATION
Architecture students in Auburn University's Rural Studio are
transforming two-dimensional designs into houses for some of
Alabama's poorest residents: B7
- POLLS INDICATE that Bill Clinton fared much better than Bob
Dole with students and other younger voters: A39
- PHOTOGRAPHS FROM The New York Times Magazine prove the
persistence of extreme hazing rituals at fraternities: A49
- A 1962 ALUMNA belatedly confesses to cheating: A49
- DESPITE DELAYS, students accept study-abroad grants: A53
- STUDENT JOURNALISTS at Washington State University published
blank issue of the student newspaper to protest what they
called censorship: A8
- STUDENT ATHLETES on two campuses charged with assault: A8
- ART STUDENTS at Virginia Commonwealth University design
alternative United States currency: A10
- A PROFESSOR ENCOURAGES students to make "chair statements"
in his industrial-design course: A10
ATHLETICS
A NEW GAMBLING SCANDAL
Following a whirlwind investigation into betting, Boston
College decided to suspend 11 players from its football team
and to permanently remove two others: A51
OPINION & LETTERS
A DIVERSE STUDENT BODY
Colleges can keep their doors open to members of minority
groups by fine-tuning the admissions process rather than by
relying on racial preferences, says Michael L. Williams, a
former Assistant Secretary of Education for civil rights: A64
PROBLEMS IN THE MELTING POT
Scholars must examine why a growing number of Americans are
hostile toward immigrants and must analyze the cost of new
immigration controls, writes Wayne A. Cornelius, a researcher
at the University of California at San Diego: B4
PROMOTING FROM WITHIN
In their zeal to recruit external candidates as their
presidents, colleges overlook and often mistreat staff members
who are qualified for the jobs, say Robert H. Perry and Allen
E. Koenig, two specialists in executive searches: B6
ECCENTRICS AT LARGE
The visiting professor, Joel J. Gold, claims his rightful place
among academe's colorful characters: B10
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
NUTS AND BOLTS OF EDUCATION
Architecture students in Auburn University's Rural Studio are
transforming two-dimensional designs into houses for some of
Alabama's poorest residents: B7
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
A federal appeals court rejected a law requiring the National
Endowment for the Arts to consider "general standards of
decency" in awarding grants: A43
THE MUTABILITY OF MEANING
Sue Johnson's etchings, on display at Virginia Commonwealth
University, recombine and modify images of nature culled from
encyclopedias: B96
- ART STUDENTS at Virginia Commonwealth University design
alternative United States currency: A10
- PROFESSOR ENCOURAGES students to make "chair statements"
in his industrial-design course: A10
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