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 Monday, June 19, 2000 |
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 House votes to freeze spending on cultural endowments N.L.R.B. lets stand decision allowing professors at a private college to unionize Ethicists wary of Boston U.'s role in venture to sell analyses of Framingham heart study Security breaches could cost U. of California its Los Alamos contract, energy secretary says Texas A&M; University will suspend its annual bonfire till 2002 U. of Michigan to divest itself of tobacco stocks Appeals court denies workers'-compensation claim by paralyzed athlete Stanford U. removes ads from football stadium and basketball arena Peru plans university in the Amazon with environmental focus More Asian universities join boycott of magazine's rankings  Colleges hail a bill giving electronic signatures legal status  South African universities grapple with the growth of distance learning  Postmodern ideas create strife in nursing MAGAZINE AND JOURNAL READER Grants for research on the relationship between health and economic development in low- and middle-income countries NEW GRANT COMPETITION Has George W. Bush been a good governor for Texas's colleges and universities? What does his record suggest about the approach he would take in the White House to higher education? You can join a discussion of those questions now, in Colloquy. And you can also submit questions in advance for a live discussion on Thursday, in Colloquy Live. COLLOQUY Today's guide to Webcasts and live discussions: Malaria, the Korean War, a possible ocean on one of Jupiter's moons, and more.
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The American Association of University Professors is reaching out to graduate students and part-time professors, and becoming more of a force in collective-bargaining battles. "Bargaining is now an important way of maintaining the traditional values of the academy -- and on some campuses, the only way," says Jane Buck, the association's new president. (Photograph by Ron Aira) SAFE HAVEN FOR SCHOLARS AT RISK American colleges have formed a network to bring imperiled foreign academics to safety -- and jobs -- in the United States. A $1-BILLION EXPERIMENT As the Gates Millennium Scholars Program awards its first 4,000 grants, advocates hope that the process will lead to a new way of identifying talented minority students. CONTROLLING KNOWLEDGE Conventional wisdom views e-books as the end of publishing as we know it. But Michael Jensen, director of publishing technologies at the National Academy Press, writes in this week's Point of View article that the technology is a way of protecting publishing's pre-Web hegemony. HIGHLIGHTS COMPLETE CONTENTS BACK ISSUES RELATED DOCUMENTS | |
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