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FORGET MIT An increasing number of female scientists are turning their backs on research universities and are instead seeking jobs at liberal-arts colleges and other institutions that emphasize teaching. ARMY ROCKS DISTANCE EDUCATION In a proposed $600-million program, the military would enlist higher-education institutions to provide and coordinate online courses for soldiers. A TOUGH SELL A company that has approached 15 elite liberal-arts colleges about collaborating to offer distance courses has met with mixed responses. LOST SKILLS Students who have been taught to write using a computer don't perform as well on composition exams that use paper and pencil, researchers at Boston College have found.  A unique distance-education program is taking students away from the comfort of their computer keyboards and into the strained climate of Bosnia. OPINION At Middlebury College's eight summer language schools, students promise to go through nine weeks speaking only -- only! -- in the tongue they hope to master.
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 Sign up for a special weekly e-mail message on teaching-related news. (Password required.)  Books on Teaching: Professors at Alverno College describe research into learning that lasts beyond graduation.  In "Psychoneuro- immunology," at the University of Chicago, undergraduates examine links between the mind and the immune system.  Teaching resources on the Internet ISSUES IN DEPTH The Culture Wars Tenure and Labor Relations in Academe Distance Education FACTS & FIGURES Faculty Salaries, 1999-2000 Select data on faculty members and administrators  640 openings from the pages of The Chronicle. |
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