Explores how budget cuts for libraries, university presses, journals, and the arts have combined to threaten the infrastructure on which professors and students depend. Includes sidebars on Appalachian State University's library, the Stanford and State University of New York (SUNY) presses, and the University of Iowa's history department. (EV)

Discusses criticism asserting that when business schools and professors "cozy up" to corporations for money and real-word experience, students learn that ethics do not count. (EV)

Discusses a suggestion by the Bush administration that colleges be held accountable for their effectiveness in retaining students, which has some college leaders worried. (EV)

Discusses how librarians are expressing concern over "bundled" collections of electronic journals from Elsevier Science, saying that the terms of the agreements are unreasonable. (EV)

Describes how colleges are exploring new Web-based strategies for successful roommate pairings. (EV)

Discusses how guidelines for classroom discussion, popular in women's studies and sociology, have set off campus controversies over freedom of speech. (EV)

Discusses how, fueled by the war on terrorism, Congress has awarded a record $1.8 billion in academic earmarks in the 2002 fiscal year. Profiles several recipient programs and includes a campus-by-campus list of projects. (EV)

Discusses how New York University's endowment managers feel vindicated in the current down market following derision by critics in the 1990s of the institution's investment strategy. (EV)

Discusses how more college men are reporting eating disorders and other problems associated with body image, a so-called "Adonis complex." (EV)

Describes how, after a quarter-century, James MacGregor Burns, a fellow at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, is still working to refine leadership studies in a way that could change the face of the field. (EV)

Describes how more regional public institutions are opening honors colleges to raise their profiles and attract better students. (EV)

Explores how online courses have redefined the relationship between faculty members and their students, turning the notion of office hours on its head. (EV)

Discusses how, as the College Board prepares to make changes in the SAT, experts debate how fair the new exam will be. (EV)

Explores how sexual harassment has long been a problem in music departments, and that two cases at top public colleges, the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and the University of Texas Austin, are drawing attention to the issue. (EV)

Describes how Project Jason, an elite panel of academics that has advised the Defense Department on research for 43 years, negotiated its way past a canceled contract. (EV)