Describes the increasing difficulty junior faculty members have in obtaining tenure. The most significant new trend is pressure to publish early and often. The depressed job market in some disciplines is making it easier for universities to demand more, and in some cases the emphasis is shifting from teaching to research and publications. (SLD)

Describes some of the efforts colleges have undertaken to ensure that clothing with college logos is not produced in sweatshops. Outlines work by the Fair Labor Association and the Workers Rights Consortium, organizations to which many colleges belong, to set up programs to monitor factories in the United States and other countries. (SLD)

Describes technological advances at North Dakota State University under the direction of Bonnie M. Neas, formerly the director of information-technology services and currently the head of Internet research. Campus networks were in their infancy when she began her programs, but now the university is part of a consortium building a high-speed…

A recent report by the National Collegiate Athletic Association on graduation rates indicates that athletes in Division II schools face as many challenges completing college as do their peers in Division I. Division II institutions are further hampered by lack of resources causing Division II students less likely to graduate in general. (SLD)

Describes some of the shortcuts taken by Chinese students who wish to study in the United States, including merely dishonest approaches like ghostwritten essays and actual criminal techniques like forgery and using stand-ins to take tests. Focuses on the New Oriental School, a private Chinese institution in Beijing that specializes in getting…

Describes science master's programs that are being designed for students who want graduate training but don't aspire to academic careers. They aim to train scientifically-educated people for the increasingly high-tech workforce without turning every student into a researcher. (EV)

Discusses the potential dearth of leaders for community colleges: some 80 percent of their presidents are expected to retire in the next decade, and replacements may be lost to elementary and secondary schools or to retirement. Addresses the training and policy support needed to meet the shortage. (EV)

Discusses the programs resulting from an aggressive move online by South Korea's universities and how they may benefit the country's women, who historically have had little access to higher education. (EV)

Explores how the collapse of dot-coms has produced an increase in applications to business schools. Students previously interested in start-up companies, along with recruiters previously interested in young, non-traditionally educated employees, are rethinking the value of a business degree. (EV)

Discusses the increasing recruitment by college coaches of foreign athletes. Explores whether Americans are losing valuable scholarship and training opportunities to foreign students. (EV)

Describes how on a continent where much of higher education is in dismal shape, the University of Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania, has managed to improve its programs, increase enrollments, and attract financial support. (EV)

Discusses how colleges are doing more to help academic couples, providing jobs for spouses of new hires as a way to make employment offers more attractive. A growing number of professors, however, say that the practice has gone too far and is unfair. (EV)

Explores how a dispute between the U.S. Department of Education and Saint Louis University over alleged misuse of professional judgment in the awarding of over 2,000 Pell grants could change how campus officials handle students' financial aid requests. (EV)

Describes growth in the endowments of colleges and universities in 2000, with the gap between the wealthiest institutions and the rest of higher education becoming wider. Includes a table on the size and growth for the past year of 569 college and university endowments. (EV)

Discusses how online programs are using new strategies of testing, both to teach students and to prove that distance education works; however, some educators question their efficacy. (EV)