Describes turmoil surrounding the actions of a professor at Indiana University at South Bend. Discusses charges of sexual harassment and intimidation leveled against the professor and the administration's dilemma concerning sanctioning him. (EV)

Describes the activities of Pennsylvania State University's president, Graham B. Spanier. Discusses his hectic work pace and some of his initiatives, including successful fund raising, transformation of the system's two-year branches into four-year institutions, distance learning, and run-ins with state lawmakers. (EV)

Describes the "slow and steady" approach to growth embraced by the owner of Stratford College, a Virginia-based, for-profit school that offers degrees in the culinary arts, information technology, and hotel and event management and business. (EV)

Describes how the University of North Texas is paying royalties to faculty members and their departments for developing online courses. (EV)

Describes how a controversial newspaper ad opposing slavery reparations and the subsequent trashing of the student daily have set off a debate at Brown University about the competing values of sensitivity and free expression. (EV)

Describes action by the president of Drake University to improve foreign language instruction by sending students abroad and abolishing classroom instruction. (EV)

Describes how the search for a president of the University of Florida was waylaid by politics and missteps. One of the problems discussed is that large selection committees often frighten away candidates. (EV)

Describes how an economist from St. Andrews University in Scotland is lining up support for an online venture to challenge the market dominance of traditional academic publishers. (EV)

Examines the trend in many foreign countries away from monopolies by public higher education institutions toward private colleges. Describes U.S. models and similar efforts in developing countries. (EV)

Describes how New York University has become the first private institution to recognize the right of teaching assistants to bargain collectively and possible implications for other private institutions. (EV)

Describes how some colleges are afraid that Republican plans to repeal the federal estate tax could hurt institutions' fund raising efforts. (EV)

Describes how, after a spectacular performance last year, higher education's largest endowments will do well just to break even this year. (EV)

West Virginia Wesleyan College has embraced technology with significant results; however, some professors question the goals and costs. (EV)

Many colleges use brochures to depict their institutions as diverse, but recent revelations of photo-doctoring raise broader questions about how student bodies are portrayed. (EV)

Describes a new institute at West Virginia University that examines the roles of consciousness and thought in nonstressful living; some professors say it is promoting New Age bunk. (EV)