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50 Years of ERIC
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Schmidt, Peter – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Discusses how Maryland's governor, Parris Glendening, is positioning himself to become the next chancellor of the state's university system. (EV)
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection, College Presidents, Higher Education
Williams, Audrey Y. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Describes how the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund wants to attract more support for students at public black colleges, who are excluded from the successful United Negro College Fund. (EV)
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Higher Education, Public Colleges
Bollag, Burton – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Discusses how, as more countries have instituted or increased tuition, student loans have spread. But the programs are a flop in much of the world, raising fears that many low-income people will be shut out of higher education. (EV)
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Attendance, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries
Fogg, Piper – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Describes how a language professor who was denied tenure now specializes in helping academics challenge their colleges. (EV)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Court Litigation, Faculty College Relationship, Higher Education
Brainard, Jeffrey – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Describes how the director of the Office of Human Research Protections has an amiable approach that emphasizes cooperation in oversight of studies with human subjects, but isn't afraid to suspend programs that violate federal regulations. (EV)
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Federal Regulation, Government School Relationship, Research
Evelyn, Jamilah – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Describes how a University of Texas program in community college leadership has educated a who's who of community college leaders, although some observers question the rigor of its curriculum. (EV)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Community Colleges, Higher Education, Leadership Training
Carlson, Scott; Carnevale, Dan – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Discusses the debate among experts over why New York University's for-profit venture went under--the changing economy or bad decisions? (EV)
Descriptors: Distance Education, Higher Education, Online Courses, Program Administration
Brownstein, Andrew; Hoover, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Explores how, for college students, the events of September 11, 2001, have changed everything; the new directions they have taken vary as much as they do. Presents profiles of several students with differing perspectives. (EV)
Descriptors: Aspiration, College Students, Higher Education, Profiles
Evelyn, Jamilah – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Describes how Roxbury Community College in Massachusetts is roiled by financial troubles and the threat of a state takeover in the wake of its president's departure. (EV)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Financial Exigency, Institutional Survival, State Action
Mangan, Katherine S. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Discusses two law schools that are offering Saturday-Sunday programs, with other schools interested in doing so; accreditors are raising objections, however. (EV)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Law Schools, Legal Education (Professions), Nontraditional Education
Olsen, Florence – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Describes how course management software systems that ease professors' administrative workload are becoming easier to use, as well as more expensive. (EV)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Courseware, Higher Education, Management Information Systems
Borrego, Anne Marie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Describes how a few colleges are allowing coed dorm rooms, but that they are not the hedonistic experience some had feared. (EV)
Descriptors: Coeducation, College Housing, College Students, Dormitories
Suggs, Welch – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Describes how O. Fitzgerald Hill studied the tough prospects for black head coaches in Division I-A football, and then became one for San Jose State University. (EV)
Descriptors: Black Leadership, Blacks, College Athletics, Football
Smallwood, Scott; Fogg, Piper; Cox, Ana Marie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Describes how a combination of professional interests, sought-after expertise, and good fortune produced appealing first jobs for four new Ph.D.s in political science, philosophy, literature, and physiology. (EV)
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Employment Potential, Faculty Recruitment, Innovation
Southwick, Ron – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Describes how political, legal, and ethical battles over embryonic stem-cell research are focused on the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where the cells were first isolated. Addresses the issue of access to the university's stem cells and a recent presidential decision regarding funding for stem-cell research.(EV)
Descriptors: Bioethics, Embryology, Higher Education, Legal Responsibility
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