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From the issue dated December 14, 2007 |
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Short SubjectsROAD SCHOLARThe president of Webster University savors an annual trip on his Honda Gold Wing. PITCHING WITH PETS: Fund raising at Illinois State University has gone to the dogs — and cats. YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT: A food-mapping project at Middlebury College tracks the origins of cafeteria favorites. LOOK, DON'T THINK: To add the illusion of credibility to your next scientific study. just add a brain scan or two. RETIREMENT IS FOR QUITTERS: A survey of business students shows that they want to climb the career ladder and never come down. The FacultyA REPORT FROM THE FIELDA doctoral student who was fired from the Army's human-terrain program says it suffers from poor organization and a lack of recruits. AN 'OWNER'S MANUAL' FOR PH.D. PROGRAMSThe Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching says graduate schools are doing a poor job of preparing students to be researchers. ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION: A business school in Texas awards M.B.A.'s in one year, has no tenure, and lets students pay what they feel their education was worth. REFORMS NEEDED: A new study reports that doctoral education in the social sciences requires changes to successfully prepare Ph.D.'s for the job market. IS EVERYBODY HAPPY? A new report on job satisfaction among junior faculty members shows the greatest disparities between universities and colleges and between public and private institutions. PEER REVIEW: Jane K. Fernandes, the focus of student protests that closed Gallaudet last year, has found a new post in North Carolina. ... The new president of Oklahoma State University, who has no academic background, was the only public contender for the role. Research & BooksLEARNING FROM THE DEADScholars gather at the University of Massachusetts to discuss their work on the Grateful Dead. NOTA BENE: A public-policy professor at Duke University looks at the pros and cons of alcohol control. Government & PoliticsTHE TUITION TESTEducational benefits for illegal immigrants are a divisive issue for presidential candidates, especially the Republicans. 'DIGGING DEEPER': A friend of President Bush has rewarded the Education Department inspectors for their work in the Nelnet case, a move that can be seen as a criticism of the education secretary. HOKIE SPIRIT: The House has passed a bill to shield relatives and victims of the Virginia Tech shootings from taxes on money they have received from the memorial fund. Money & ManagementTHE ZERO-CARBON DREAMAs colleges try to curb their emission of greenhouse gases, they are finding it a more complicated and longer-term effort than they had anticipated. THE CURRENCY OF STUDY ABROADInternational-education offices at colleges in the United States try to cope as the declining value of the dollar hikes the costs of overseas programs. BOULDER SCANDAL CONCLUDES: Officials at the University of Colorado will pay $2.85-million to settle a lawsuit about alleged rapes by football players and recruits in 2001. A PROFITABLE VENTURE: Colleges find that allowing students to manage a portion of their endowments can be a good investment. INVENTIVE UNIVERSITIES: The number of institutions that earned more than $10-million annually from their licensing of inventions crept up between 2005 and 2006, according to a recent report. BUILDING BIG: Boston College has submitted a master plan to the city's redevelopment authority that includes $800-million in construction and renovation to the campus. Information TechnologyFUN WITH COMPUTERSA community college tries to increase IT enrollment by creating a video-game lab. LINKED IN: The computer pioneer John Seely Brown talks about the return of tinkering in the age of Web 2.0. PIRATES EVERYWHERE: The Motion Picture Association of American has been charged with misusing open-source antipiracy software. A HATE CRIME? A fake YouTube video that showed a Dalhousie University professor as a pimp is being investigated by the police. StudentsTHE DREAM PROJECTA program founded by a freshman at the University of Washington puts students in the role of admissions counselors at local high schools. CLERY ACT RULINGA federal appeals court supports a university's right to name an assailant in a public notice about a crime near the campus. POLITICAL BEDFELLOWSIowa colleges scramble to find places for students to sleep during the presidential caucuses in January, when campuses will be closed. RANKINGS ALTERNATIVE: Donors have given $120,000 thus far to the Education Conservancy's effort to develop an online college-search tool. ENROLLMENT INCREASE: The percentage of U.S. graduate students who are members of racial and ethnic minorities made its biggest jump in six years between 2005 and 2006. InternationalA REPUTATION IN JEOPARDYMass firings and other signs of instability at an elite Mexican university threaten its relationship with U.S. colleges. VOTE FIXING: Some college students and professors in Russia say they were coerced into voting for Putin's United Russia party. 'WE NEED HELP': Iraqi professors update their teaching skills at the University of Alberta as part of an international project to aid universities in Iraq. Notes From AcademeLEARNING FROM THE DEADScholars gather at the University of Massachusetts to discuss their work on the Grateful Dead. The Chronicle ReviewNURTURING IDEASA Carnegie Foundation study has found that intellectual community, while difficult to define, is an essential ingredient for a thriving doctoral program, writes George E. Walker, Chris M. Golde, Laura Jones, Andrea Conklin Bueschel, and Pat Hutchings. A SALUTE TO HARD-WON WISDOMA new GI Bill would benefit not just soldiers, but also their civilian classmates, writes Daniel Byman. REINFORCED_NUTTINESS.COMWant to see yourself in the extreme? Log on, writes Cass R. Sunstein. HEARD ANY GOOD MOVIES LATELY?Recent books on music in the films of John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock are helping film scholars learn the score, writes Thomas Doherty. ORIENTALISM IN BALLETNutcracker season is an appropriate time to ask: What's with all the stereotyped exotica?, writes Martha Ullman West. WATER COLORSThe wondrous, and threatened, variation in marine life inspires the artist Rachel Simmons. THE LITTLE LAB THAT COULD"Small science" provides opportunities for younger scientists beyond major research centers, writes T. Gregory Dewey. CRITICAL MASS: Debating the impact of the death penalty. A Letter From the EditorLetters to the EditorChronicle CareersFEARING OUR STUDENTSIf you teach a few hundred students a year, it seems only a matter of time before you run into a dangerous one. BACKSTABBERS AND UNDERMINERSFor academic bullies, being left alone — a mix of shunning and solitary confinement — is the ultimate punishment. NUMERICALLY SPEAKINGA college president learns to give a speech by the numbers. DETAILS OF AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching and research positions in higher education, administrative and executive jobs, and openings outside academe |