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THE FACULTY
EXTENDING THE PHYSICIAN'S ROLE
Medical schools are starting to offer training in how doctors
can help patients who are dying, providing what the schools
call "palliative care": A12
SWINDLING SCHOLARS
Arabic-speaking experts on the Middle East are being warned
about a con man who has duped several professors out of
thousands of dollars: A13
A FASCINATION WITH LUGE
Wanda Ellen Wakefield, a historian at Middle Tennessee State
University, has become an expert and an international official
in a sport that most Americans don't understand: A10
- THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION has reported that the
academic job market for Ph.D.'s in English and foreign
languages is holding steady: A12
- A GROUP OF SCHOLARS in gay and lesbian studies is drawing
attention to Canada's restrictive obscenity laws through an
art exhibit in Toronto: A12
- AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, in Texas, plans to hire 60
full-time professors by 2001: A14
- PROFESSORS OF JAZZ at the New School for Social Research
have voted to join a musician's union, a move that could
implications for other private colleges: A14
- THE FORCED RESIGNATION of the associate dean at the
University of Pittsburgh's School of Medicine has angered
professors: A14
- PEER REVIEW: A61
- The list of visiting lecturers in Stanford University's
English department suggests whom the department is
considering hiring.
- The man known as "Mr. Labor" in New York City, Victor
Gotbaum, is taking his expertise in negotiation to the
National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining
in Higher Education, at the City University of New York.
- The chief lawyer for one of the Oklahoma City bombers is
leaving the University of Texas School of Law.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
THE NEW RUSSIAN STUDIES
Market economics, democratic political theory, field research
in long-closed regions, and the next generation of scholars are
reshaping what was once Sovietology: A16
HEADING OFF H.I.V.
Scientists trying to develop a vaccine for AIDS have gained new
support and have begun trials with human volunteers: A18
SCIENTIFIC FRAUD IN GERMANY
Two prominent biologists were found to have fabricated data
used in close to 50 papers that passed the peer-review process
and appeared in leading journals: A57
STUDYING THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
The field would be much stronger if more scholars mastered the
science, rather than taking it as a given and focusing on
social and cultural issues, writes Alan E. Shapiro, director of
the Program in History of Science and Technology at the
University of Minnesota: B4
- A SHOCK WAVE from a supernova has lit up cloud of celestial
gas, and the Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the
phenomenon: A22
- THE SUICIDE RATE rises in areas struck by natural disasters,
scientists say: A22
- THE MORE EDUCATION YOU HAVE, the more headaches you are
likely to suffer, according to a new study: A22
- NUTRITION RESEARCHERS at Harvard and Cornell Universities
have released recommendations on vegetarian diets: A8
- DUKE UNIVERSITY is home to a collection of thousands of
billboards, photographs, posters, and other materials that
show the impact of advertising over the last century: A10
- HOT TYPE: A22
- Annette Gordon-Reed, a New York Law School professor and
author of a biography of Thomas Jefferson, will
collaborate with the power broker Vernon Jordan on his
memoirs.
- A historian at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa is
striving to stamp out an unfounded rumor about the hero
of the Amistad slave uprising.
- 132 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A23-27
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM
Everything about a new engineering facility at the University
of Colorado at Boulder is designed to encourage a hands-on,
interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to learning: A29
MASS-MARKET MATH
In some of Virginia Tech's introductory mathematics courses,
computers do much of the teaching -- in a former department
store converted into a classroom. But students complain that
the method isn't for everyone: A32
A SWEETHEART DEAL
A partnership between four big technology corporations and the
California State University System would have grave
consequences, writes James L. Wood, a professor and chairman of
the department of sociology at San Diego State University: B6
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
WORRIES OVER "BRAIN DRAINS"
Many states are starting scholarship programs to encourage top
students to attend local public colleges, rather than going out
of state, but experts doubt the effectiveness of the incentives
-- and whether a "brain drain" actually exists: A36
APPROVAL FOR "XENOTRANSPLANTATION"
Federal officials have decided to allow scientists, in limited
cases, to implant animal organs, tissues, or cells into human
beings, despite concerns that the practice would pose a risk
to public health: A38
NO TO CLONING BAN
The Senate has rejected proposed legislation that many
scientists said would have interfered with important biomedical
research: A40
CALCULATING INTEREST RATES
Backers of direct lending are fighting an effort by lenders to
to halt an impending change that would cut costs for borrowers:
A42
THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT
A Clinton Administration plan to revamp the law governing most
federal student-aid programs would reallocate funds for three
campus-based programs, in ways that would shift money to
community colleges and younger institutions: A44
BUDGET TRADEOFFS
President Clinton has proposed increases in spending on the
Fulbright program in fiscal 1999, but to do so, he proposed
cuts in other exchanges run by the U.S. Information Agency: A60
- SOUTH CAROLINA LAWMAKERS are debating whether to allow
students at Bob Jones University, an unaccredited
institution, to be eligible for state financial aid: A36
- TENNESSEE WILL HONOR 3,200 grants in aid that it awarded by
mistake: A36
- THE U.S. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT has given the University of
Pennsylvania mixed reviews of its compliance with federal
laws requiring the release of annual crime reports: A42
- THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE has voted to extend and expand
tax breaks for people whose employers pay for their tuition
or who save money for college in prepaid-tuition plans: A43
- REPUBLICAN MEMBERS of the House of Representatives said they
would take steps to rein in the cost of higher education if
colleges didn't act first to deal with the recommendations
of a national commission: A43
- KANSAS LEGISLATORS are considering a plan to reorganize the
governance of public colleges and universities, giving the
state a much bigger role in higher education: A47
- PENNSYLVANIA LAWMAKERS are scrutinizing Lincoln University
over the $530,000 it has spent to remodel its president's
home since 1987: A47
- A TABLE LISTS the colleges and universities that received
the most federal research and development funds in 1995 and
1996. Academe Today readers can also view the figures from
1989 to 1994: A38
- STATUS OF FEDERAL LEGISLATION: A42
- NEW BILLS IN CONGRESS: A46
- NEW APPOINTMENTS and nominations in the federal government:
A46
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
A BULLISH YEAR
The value of college and university endowments increased by
21.9 per cent in fiscal 1997, to a total of more than
$150-billion. It was the highest return since 1986: A48
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- A table showing the endowments of 495 colleges and
universities in 1996 and 1997: A49-50
KEEPING HEALTH COVERAGE
A new program created by a health-care company could make it
easier for students to use their parents' insurance while on
the campus: A54
STUDENTS
GOING FOR GENDER BALANCE
Science and engineering institutes are working hard to recruit
more female students, but men still dominate their campuses:
A53
KEEPING HEALTH COVERAGE
A new program created by a health-care company could make it
easier for students to use their parents' insurance while on
the campus: A54
- A NEW COMPANY near Old Dominion University is helping
students assemble materials for research, but some
professors wonder if the service promotes cheating: A53
- THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER at the University of California at Los
Angeles has provoked controversy by publishing a senior's
claim that he had an affair with Monica Lewinsky: A53
- A NEW REPORT suggests that the best job opportunities for
students lie not only in computer programming but in office
work: A8
- AS PART OF A COURSE at St. Lawrence University, students are
publishing poetry by Shakespeare the old-fashioned way: A8
- STANFORD UNIVERSITY, will increase its financial aid by
$3.8-million, following similar efforts to broaden aid
eligibility announced by Princeton and Yale Universities: A8
- STUDENTS at Columbia University and New York Law School face
charges of participating in a $10-million-a-year gambling
ring: A10
- PURDUE UNIVERSITY, students competed this months in the 16th
annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, in which contestants
seek to complicate the simple: A10
ATHLETICS
TITLE IX AND BLACK UNIVERSITIES
Many of the colleges are among those with the largest gaps
between the percentage of female undergraduates and the
percentage of female athletes: A55
A FASCINATION WITH LUGE
Wanda Ellen Wakefield, a historian at Middle Tennessee State
University, has become an expert and an international official
in a sport that most Americans don't understand: A10
INTERNATIONAL
SCIENTIFIC FRAUD IN GERMANY
Two prominent biologists were found to have fabricated data
used in close to 50 papers that passed the peer-review process
and appeared in leading journals: A57
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- Germany's national research council plans to adopt
guidelines to prevent future cases of scientific fraud:
A59
BUDGET TRADEOFFS
President Clinton has proposed increases in spending on the
Fulbright program in fiscal 1999, but to do so, he proposed
cuts in other exchanges run by the U.S. Information Agency: A60
BEYOND SOVIETOLOGY
The collapse of the Soviet Union set off a sea change in
Russian studies. The work of scholars whose careers began then
is now attracting widespread interest: A16
OPINION & LETTERS
ACADEMIC WARS OF WORDS
Today's faculty members have forgotten that the fundamental
purpose of debate is to provide information and to do so
civilly, writes Mary Lefkowitz, a professor of classical
studies at Wellesley College: A64
SLOW FADING OF THE SOUL
Trying to understand the mental decline of one afflicted with
Alzheimer's disease is an effort that no academic course is
capable of teaching us: B2
STUDYING THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
The field would be much stronger if more scholars mastered the
science, rather than taking it as a given and focusing on
social and cultural issues, writes Alan E. Shapiro, director of
the Program in History of Science and Technology at the
University of Minnesota: B4
A SWEETHEART DEAL
A partnership between four big technology corporations and the
California State University System would have grave
consequences, writes James L. Wood, a professor and chairman of
the department of sociology at San Diego State University: B6
HOLY HACKING
Cybersurfers in an on-line chat room tap into some cosmic code,
with mysterious results, as recounted by Lawrence Douglas and
Alexander George, both professors at Amherst College: B7
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
TESTAMENTS OF HOPE
Entries in the Smithsonian Institution's Native American Film
and Video Festival last year took different tacks, but all
provided glimpses of history and contemporary life, writes Paul
Apodaca, a senior lecturer in the social-science department at
Chapman University: B8
A HOUSEHOLD VOCABULARY
The exhibition "Patssi Valdez, Private Landscapes: 1988-1998"
is at California State University at Northridge: B100
- THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS at Urbana-Champaign's library is
exhibiting a portion of its collection of children's
"pop-up" books: A8
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE
"BULLETIN BOARD": JOB OPENINGS
DETAILS OF AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching and research
positions in higher education, administrative and executive
jobs, and openings outside academe.
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