Highlights from the Chronicle of Higher Ed. and Edupage

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

[Excerpts from the Chronicle abstract from their gopher,
"gopher chronicle.merit.edu 70" and from Edupage, "gopher educom.edu."
I found them with the CAF whatsnews server, "gopher gopher.eff.org 5070".]
 - Carl]


[...]
             A guide to the January 26, 1994, issue of
                THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
                      (Volume 40, Issue 21)


[...]
  COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ABOLISHES TENURE
  The institution's trustees have voted unanimously to
  replace it with a system of contracts. It has also
  warned professors not to criticize the institution
  to the news media: Page A18


{best argument I have heard for tenure}




[...]
  o  THE AMERITECH FOUNDATION WILL SPEND $700,000 to create
     a university consortium that will help scholars analyze
     telecommunications policies: A23


[...]
     *  What a difference a word makes to R.C. De Prospo, a
        professor of English at Washington College. Various
        agencies repeatedly denied him money to support a
        research project comparing 17th-century captivity
        narratives. But when he gave a paper on the topic
        at last month's Modern Language Association meeting
        -- with the word "multiculturalism" in the title --
        one university press and three scholarly journals
        inquired ahead of time about publishing the work.
[...]
  o  INFORMATION ABOUT HUNDREDS OF COLLEGE CLASSES taught with
     the help of satellites, computer networks, and other
     technologies has been compiled in a book, "The Electronic
     University: A Guide to Distance Learning Programs": A23


  o  THOSE WHO WANT TO KEEP UP with the latest news on the
     effort to create a "National Information Infrastructure"
     can find information about the U.S. government's
     activities on the Internet. Users can gain access
     to the information on the server by using the telnet or
     Gopher functions to reach iitf.doc.gov. The password
     "gopher" should be used to log on to the system: A25


  o  AN ELECTRONIC VERSION OF "FANNY HILL" has been removed
     from a computer connected to the Internet, prompting
     a spirited debate about censoring computerized
[...]
  o  HAMLINE UNIVERSITY HAS DRAWN UP A NEW POLICY expressing
     support for members of minority-student groups that want
     to exclude whites: A4