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- 1From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: ROBIN WILSON The board that oversees the Fulbright research-grant program decided last week that 30 graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley who were disqualified because their applications...
- 2From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: LILA GUTERMAN Poets die young. It's not just a myth; it's a statistical finding. John Keats died at age 25 and Sylvia Plath at 30. But do such singular examples suggest a trend? James C. Kaufman, an...
- 3From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: JANICE PASKEY< The University of Toronto has set a fund-raising record for Canadian universities -- $750-million, or one billion Canadian dollars -- in its recently completed capital campaign. "The success...
- 4From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: BETHANY BROIDA A private-equity group acquired a small liberal-arts university in Arizona this month with the hope of expanding it into a world-renowned Christian institution. Significant Education LLC...
- 5From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: ROBIN MORIARTY Whenever I speak with friends in the academic world, the conversation seems to inevitably turn to the same subject: how to make the transition from an academic career to a nonacademic one. Five...
- 6From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK Scientists who receive financial support from the tobacco industry will soon be barred from receiving grants from the American Cancer Society, which awards about $125-million annually. For...
- 7From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: SARA HEBEL The University of Virginia announced a new student-aid policy this month under which it will replace loans with grants for some needy undergraduates and limit the amount of loans that students from...
- 8From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: SHARON WALSH The U.S. attorney's office in Des Moines has backed down from using a subpoena to get information about an antiwar conference held at Drake University last fall. A federal judge last week...
- 9From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: MARTHA ANN OVERLAND Business students and educators across India are criticizing the government's decision this month to drastically lower -- yes, lower -- tuition and other fees charged by the country's most...
- 10From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: NINA C. AYOUB The technical slur in Washington is "chicken hawk": a civilian policy maker all too gung ho for war despite a lack of military experience. Whether or not the label is fair, it shades debate....
- 11From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: PIPER FOGG Alfred Lee 1999: Denied tenure at Duke University, physics department Now: Program manager at Microsoft When Alfred Lee heard a senior colleague in the physics department at Duke...
- 12From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: ANDREA L. FOSTER Following New York University's embarrassment last month, when it was widely reported that some students' Social Security numbers were inadvertently posted on its Web site, officials have...
- 13From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: RICHARD MONASTERSKY Publishing companies are having a hard time keeping their periodic tables up to date these days. In the past decade, labs around the world have been adding new boxes to the end of the...
- 14From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: AUDREY WILLIAMS JUNE Northwestern University and the City of Evanston, Ill., have settled a protracted legal battle over a city-designated historic district that includes university property. The agreement...
- 15From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: MIGUEL MANTERO As a relatively new junior faculty member, the specter of the tenure process looms in the nooks of my professional mind. I am in the middle of my second year as an assistant professor at a...
- 16From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: FRANCIS X. ROCCA A Scotsman's 20-year struggle to win equal treatment for foreign instructors at Italian universities may soon succeed. The European Commission announced this month that it would propose...
- 17From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: BRYON MACWILLIAMS L'viv, Ukraine -- Fifteen handwrought iron crosses hang suspended at varying heights above a tarp littered with building debris and dirt. It is an installation, a piece of art situated...
- 18From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: PIPER FOGG Graeme M. Boone 1995: Denied tenure at Harvard University, music department Now: Associate professor of music at Ohio State University at Columbus In the early 1990s, Graeme M. Boone...
- 19From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: AUDREY WILLIAMS JUNE Washington -- The United Negro College Fund last week named the president of Dillard University, a private historically black college in New Orleans, as its new president and chief...
- 20From: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Vol. 50, Issue 24)Byline: RICHARD BYRNE VANISHING ACT: "The land is sick! After all these years of communism, it's sick!" So complains Sandu Bogdan, a factory worker turned farmer quoted by Katherine Verdery in her new book, The...