Describes how, for the first time since 1984, the value of college endowments dropped last year. Includes data charts and a listing of endowment fund amounts and the annual change for over 600 universities. (EV)

Discusses how a Supreme Court decision last year in "The New York Times Company v. Jonathan Tasini" has led publishers to make massive purges of archival material in newspaper databases, rendering them unreliable for many scholars. (EV)

Explores how many colleges have changed their enrollment strategies to focus more on local and regional students in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks and recession. (EV)

Explores how the world's oldest English-speaking university is struggling with issues of finance, governance, mission, and demographics. (EV)

Discusses how, when a professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas was rejected for tenure over a lack of collegiality, she sued--and raised questions about that criterion. (EV)

Describes how, backed by a wealthy alumna, Wells College's efforts to spruce up Aurora, New York have angered residents. (EV)

Describes how a federal program let a California for-profit institution, the Masters Institute, expand its distance education offerings, but then led to its closure because of findings of financial aid fraud. (EV)

Discusses the latest institutional reports of college crime to the U.S. Department of Education, including an increase in violations of drug and alcohol laws. Includes several data tables of campus crime. (EV)

Discusses how Sami Al-Arian, of the University of South Florida, may become the first tenured professor to lose his job for his views in the aftermath of September 11. Many faculty members say academic freedom will take a beating. (EV)

Explores how college programs for prisoners have won new support as research shows that they reduce the rates of recidivism. Includes descriptions of several such programs. (EV)

Discusses how more private college presidents than ever are recruiting former presidents of other colleges to sit on their boards of trustees, hoping that these former campus leaders can provide perspectives that trustees from the business world may lack. Concerns about conflicts of interest exist, however. (EV)

Explores how the Army's distance education program is attracting strong interest from soldiers at the same time that it is causing clashes between the military and academic cultures. (EV)

Describes how Williams College borrows an old format, professor-student tutorials, to put a new spin on a more personal education. (EV)

Discusses how Kaplan, the test-preparation company, has purchased 41 for-profit higher education institutions in less than two years, thereby becoming an industry player. (EV)

Discusses how officials at Salt Lake Community College decided the only way they could get the kind of technology service they needed was to hire a company to run the operation; the plan will not save money, but seeks better service and room for expansion. (EV)