SCRUTINIZING MINORITY HIRING
When Wheaton College filled half of its 10 faculty openings with black scholars, some on the Massachusetts campus questioned whether race had played too large a role in the process.
PEER REVIEW
Harvard University's Carol Gilligan keeps her tenured post while teaching part time at New York University. ... The playwright Anna Deavere Smith leaves Stanford University for N.Y.U., where she will have a joint appointment in the arts and law schools. ... Stanford's new Center for the Study of the Novel lures a director from Columbia University.
PROFESSORS RALLY AT BENNINGTON
The American Association of University Professors held the first campus rally in its history to protest recent faculty firings at Bennington College.
ASIAN-AMERICAN BOYCOTT
An association of Asian-American scholars is urging Asian-American scientists to boycott job openings at U.S. national laboratories.
UNIONS AT MEDICAL SCHOOLS
University administrators are debating what to do in the wake of a labor ruling that gave a green light for medical residents' unionizing.
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