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THE FACULTY
ORGANIZING PART-TIMERS
Faculty unions have found new recruits in adjunct professors,
many of whom feel they deserve more money and better working
conditions: A12
UNION VOTE AT MIAMI-DADE
After several failed organizing drives in the past 25 years,
full-time professors at the community college are confident of
victory in an election next month: A14
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
Mary F. Wheeler, an applied mathematician at the University of
Texas at Austin, uses formulas to help plan efforts to clean up
underground contamination: A11
PEDAGOGY IN CYBERSPACE
Robert F. Norden, an accounting professor at the Colorado
Community College of Denver, has 21 years of classroom
experience. Now Mr. Norden, who's also known as "Smokin' Chalk
Bob," is learning to teach his first course on line: A25
- PRESIDENT CLINTON announced key appointments in a speech at
the 150th-anniversary annual meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science last week: A12
- A CRUSADING FORMER PROFESSOR at Pennsylvania State
University has smoked marijuana on or near the campus at
least five times in recent weeks to push for the drug's
legalization: A10
- A UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PROFESSOR has turned a $2,000 teaching
award he won into scholarships for undergraduates who are
studying to be teachers: A39
- A PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY of Memphis is creating a
$100,000 endowment to finance "spontaneous rewards" for
people in the college of business and economics who provide
outstanding service: A39
- PEER REVIEW: A52
- Cornell University's effort to beef up its social-science
departments, which have slipped in recent years, has been
hobbled by the departure of three top psychologists.
- A year ago, Adelphi University was fixated on ousting its
president, Peter Diamandopoulos. Now it is focused on who
his permanent replacement will be.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
ANCIENT, BUT NOT ANTIQUARIAN
Classicists who gathered at a recent conference at New York
University said they hoped that a new, interdisciplinary
approach would reinvigorate the field: A15
DEFINING LIFE
The debate over the moral status of a cloned cell is not just
academic but key to Congressional decisions on laws to regulate
research: A16
- The creator of Dolly, the cloned sheep, defended his work
against researchers who have speculated that it might be
nothing more than a fluke: A17
A NEW SCIENCE-POLICY TEAM
President Clinton has picked the National Science Foundation's
director, Neal F. Lane, to be his top research adviser and the
University of Maryland's Rita R. Colwell to succeed Dr. Lane:
A33
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
Mary F. Wheeler, an applied mathematician at the University of
Texas at Austin, uses formulas to help plan efforts to clean up
underground contamination: A11
'NO TAKE' MARINE SANCTUARIES
Scientists are using new tools and procedures to preserve coral
reefs and declining fish populations, writes John C. Ogden,
director of the Florida Institute of Oceanography and a
professor of biology at the University of South Florida: B6
- SOLAR PHYSICISTS are hoping that this week's full eclipse of
the sun will shed light on the mysteries of its corona: A12
- AIDS RESEARCHERS HAVE STOPPED using placebos in
controversial studies involving pregnant women infected with
H.I.V. in developing countries: A20
- THE HEIGHT OF ADULT MEN may be linked to the season of their
birth, according to an Austrian study: A20
- A GENETICALLY ALTERED MOUSE has been developed to help
scientists determine how sunlight contributes to skin cancer
and the premature aging of skin: A20
- A MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE professor has developed a process that
uses a weevil to fight a European weed that has been
crowding out native vegetation in American lakes: A10
- A PANEL made up largely of scientists has been established
to study the peer-review system at the National Institutes
of Health: A37
- HOT TYPE: A20
- Verso is trying to duplicate its success with Che
Guevara's Motorcycle Diaries by publishing a
150th-anniversary edition of The Communist Manifesto.
- Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron, and Andrew Levy, the editors
of the anthology Postmodern American Fiction, are trying
to establish a canon of postmodern writing.
- 82 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A21-23
- Nota Bene: The Name of War: King Philip's War and the
Origins of American Identity, by Jill Lepore, an
assistant professor of history at Boston University. The
book is published by Alfred A. Knopf.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
PEDAGOGY IN CYBERSPACE
Robert F. Norden, an accounting professor at the Colorado
Community College of Denver, has 21 years of classroom
experience. Now Mr. Norden, who's also known as "Smokin' Chalk
Bob," is learning to teach his first course on line: A25
HELPING DIGITAL LIBRARIES
The federal government plans to double the amount of money it
provides in grants for research on developing technology for
users and content: A27
LONG-DEAD THINKER 'ATTENDS' MEETING
Using the modern wonder of teleconferencing, the "auto icon" of
the founder of utilitarianism joined in a symposium to
celebrate his 250th birthday: A28
THE MADONNA AWARD
A new analysis of the best and worst courses delivered by the
World-Wide Web shows that the best should have qualities
similar to those of the popular singer: A29
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
INNOVATOR IN HIGHER EDUCATION?
Arizona's Rio Salado College thinks it can satisfy the needs of
students and corporations, and compete with aggressive
proprietary institutions on their own terms: A32
A NEW SCIENCE-POLICY TEAM
President Clinton has picked the National Science Foundation's
director, Neal F. Lane, to be his top research adviser and the
University of Maryland's Rita R. Colwell to succeed Dr. Lane:
A33
AN OUTDATED SYSTEM?
The Clinton Administration appears to be in for a tough fight
in its attempt to change the formulas used to distribute
campus-based financial aid: A36
FIGHT OVER VOCATIONAL FUNDS
Community colleges are opposing a provision of a Senate bill
that would open up a key program to some for-profit trade
schools: A36
STICKING BY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
The University of Michigan, facing lawsuits over its admissions
policies, has changed the way it considers race and ethnicity
in the process of admitting students: A38
- SATISFACTION with the direct-lending program dropped
significantly in the 1996-97 academic year, according to an
annual survey conducted for the U.S. Education Department:
A32
- THE SOUTH CAROLINA House of Representatives passed a bill
that would bar affirmative action in state agencies,
including several public colleges: A32
- THE U.S. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT has ended its investigation
into whether Ohio violated federal civil-rights laws in its
treatment of Central State University, the only public,
historically black institution in the state: A34
- THE FIRST DIRECTOR of the new White House Initiative on
Tribal Colleges and Universities was sworn in: A37
- THE NUMBER OF COLLEGE STUDENTS willing to go into debt to
pay for their education has increased, according to a study
conducted by the U.S. General Accounting Office: A37
- A PANEL made up largely of scientists has been established
to study the peer-review system at the National Institutes
of Health: A37
- A NORTH CAROLINA APPEALS COURT has ruled that state colleges
may close student judicial hearings to the public: A38
- THE KANSAS LEGISLATURE has approved a ban on most abortions
at the University of Kansas Hospital, as part of a broad
restructuring of the hospital's governance: A38
- NEW APPOINTMENTS and nominations in the federal government:
A35
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
INDIANA'S GAIN
Although it is now the wealthiest foundation in the United
States, the Lilly Endowment plans to keep its focus on its
home state: A39
INTERNATIONAL GRANT MAKING
Private and corporate foundations in the United States gave
$966-million to causes abroad in 1994, an increase of 26 per
cent over 1990, a study has found. The Ford Foundation was
the most generous: A40
OUTPACING INFLATION
A report by the College and University Personnel Association
has found that median salaries for administrators rose 4.6 per
cent in 1997-98: A43
- A series of tables list the median salaries for 170
administrative positions on college campuses in 1997-98,
by type of institution, as reported by CUPA: A42
LICENSED TO MAKE MONEY
The top research universities in the United States earned
$336-million in 1996 from royalties on inventions, according to
a survey by the Association of University Technology Managers:
A44
- A table shows the royalty earnings, new patents, and
other data on 131 research universities for 1996: A44
- A UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PROFESSOR has turned a $2,000 teaching
award he won into scholarships for undergraduates who are
studying to be teachers: A39
- A PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY of Memphis is creating a
$100,000 endowment to finance "spontaneous rewards" for
people in the college of business and economics who provide
outstanding service: A39
- PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY will review a $750,000 gift it
received from the Turkish government. Critics have
questioned academic restrictions placed on the gift: A41
- MOUNT IDA COLLEGE has agreed to change its policies on
trustee selection and executive compensation in order to
avoid legal action in Massachusetts: A41
- A SNACK COMPANY that was left out in the cold because of a
deal the University of Maryland signed with PepsiCo is suing
the university system: A41
- A FORMER ADMINISTRATOR at Florida's Edison Community College
has been charged with falsifying grades for his son and two
female students and with creating degrees for himself: A10
- UPDATES ON 4 CAPITAL CAMPAIGNS: A41
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A43
STUDENTS
RECRUITING DISABLED STUDENTS
Middle Tennessee State University has increased enrollments by
providing special services, but some students have complained
that certain buildings remain inaccessible to them: A45
RACIAL TENSIONS
An incident at Guilford College reflects unusually bitter
divisions at a North Carolina institution known for its Quaker
tradition of promoting consensus: A46
- YALE LAW SCHOOL and Harvard medical school retained top
ratings in U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings of
professional and graduate schools. Meanwhile, an association
of law schools urged students to ignore the rankings: A45
- THE NUMBER OF COLLEGE STUDENTS willing to go into debt to
pay for their education has increased, according to a study
conducted by the U.S. General Accounting Office: A37
- STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS at the University of Rochester spent
a "Day Without Mirrors" last week as part of a month-long
program to boost self-esteem and promote health: A11
- ENGINEERING STUDENTS at the University of Maryland at
College Park included all the bells and whistles in a
computerized pinball machine they created: A11
- WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of
best-selling books: A46
ATHLETICS
AN EDGE FOR PRINCETON AND YALE?
New financial-aid policies at the two universities may help
their recruiting of top athletes, and that possibility has some
officials at other Ivy League institutions worried: A47
INTERNATIONAL
SUDAN'S EDUCATION REVOLUTION
The cash-poor, strife-torn nation is trying to educate many
more students, and to insure that instruction is in Arabic: A48
FACULTY SALARIES IN MEXICO
Inflation and the devaluation of the peso have made it
difficult for the National Autonomous University, the country's
largest university, to meet professors' needs: A51
INTERNATIONAL GRANT MAKING
Private and corporate foundations in the United States gave
$966-million to causes abroad in 1994, an increase of 26 per
cent over 1990, a study has found. The Ford Foundation was
the most generous: A40
A BRAZILIAN FIELD PROJECT
An "anarchical" project aims to change the elitist reputation
of Brazil's Federal University of Bahia: B2
- AUSTRIA'S PLAN to send undercover consultants into
classrooms to evaluate teaching and university services was
condemned by the heads of the country's 18 universities: A48
- A COMMITTEE OF PARLIAMENT has recommended regulating British
universities' overseas programs through special
accreditation by the government: A48
- RUSSIA'S MINISTRY OF EDUCATION is taking steps to close
unauthorized branches of some universities in Estonia: A51
- DRAFT DEFERRALS for students at Israeli yeshivas are being
challenged in a lawsuit that claims such exemptions unfairly
discriminate against students at secular universities: A51
- TWO PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES in Israel have become the first of
their kind to win accreditation from the nation's Council of
Higher Education: A51
- KENYA CLOSED one of its national universities after students
took to the streets to protest ethnic violence: A51
OPINION & LETTERS
THE PHILOSOPHY OF LYING
Our simplest social relationships could not exist without the
opaque medium of deception, writes Robert C. Solomon, a
professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin:
A60
BLENDING FACT AND FICTION
Writing a biographical novel involves moving from literal to
imaginative truth, writes Jay Parini, a professor of English at
Middlebury College: B4
'NO TAKE' MARINE SANCTUARIES
Scientists are using new tools and procedures to preserve coral
reefs and declining fish populations, writes John C. Ogden,
director of the Florida Institute of Oceanography and a
professor of biology at the University of South Florida: B6
THE ARCHITECTURE OF MEMORY
Even subtle, gentle memorials can provoke people to take notice
of momentous times, writes the architect Kevin Keim, director
of the Charles W. Moore Foundation: B8
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
THE ARCHITECTURE OF MEMORY
Even subtle, gentle memorials can provoke people to take notice
of momentous times, writes the architect Kevin Keim, director
of the Charles W. Moore Foundation: B8
AN OUTSIDER AND EVERYMAN
The exhibition "Roger Brown & Friends in the Nineties" is at
Davidson College: B84
- PRATT INSTITUTE STUDENTS spent a recent day under the big
top to draw, photograph, and videotape Mighty King Tusk, a
53-year-old circus elephant: A10
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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