Discusses how more college students protested last year, winning some surprising concessions, but that their fledgling movement is struggling with ideology, apathy, and whether their causes are the right ones. (EV)

Discusses how Joel Westheimer, a rising star at New York University who had published and won the support of his department and outside reviewers, was denied tenure after he backed graduate students in a union drive. The university denies a connection. (EV)

Discusses how for fiscal year 2001, Congress earmarked more money for federal projects for specific colleges than ever before. It provided a 60 percent increase over the previous year, although such earmarks have drawn criticism as wasteful and harmful to merit-based competition for funds. Includes a list of top recipients of "pork." (EV)

Discusses the for-profit education sector's rush to consolidate. Large, publicly traded schools are looking to expand their businesses, while smaller schools are finding it hard to maintain growth or expand on their own. (EV)

Describes how faculty at Drexel University, fearing a system of post-tenure review imposed from above, devised a voluntary, penalty-free program for post-tenure "renewal." (EV)

Discusses how the chancellor of the California State University System wants the system to be able to confer a doctorate in education. However, such degrees are the province of the University of California, which is vigorously opposing the initiative. (EV)

Discusses how colleges are dealing with the dilemma of 1960s-era buildings that do not meet today's needs. Describes renovation projects at various colleges that attempt to mix educational, financial, and aesthetic goals. (EV)

Describes how institutions in Britain are working together to create a national e-University, a government-sponsored effort to bring together an assortment of distance-learning programs and courses to be sold to students all over the world. However, some officials are skeptical of its need or its prospects for success. (EV)

Describes how many colleges are turning to a Harvard professor's book, "Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds," for help in better serving their students. (EV)

Discusses the accusation by a professor at the University of Miami that a prominent Chilean scholar participated in his torture in Chile after the 1973 coup, and the reverberations felt by academics from the accusation. (EV)

Discusses how business schools, expanding their course offerings to meet student demands, are engaged in a bidding war to employ the few new Ph.D.s in the field. (EV)

Describes a plan to end Mississippi's 26-year-old college desegregation case, which is hailed by government officials but criticized by others, who say it fails to improve access to college for black students. (EV)

Provides data from a new report on college fund raising, which shows that colleges received a record $23.2 billion in gifts in the 1999-2000 academic year, an increase of 13.7 percent over the previous year. Includes tables on gifts by type of institution, and top 20s in total giving, alumni giving, corporate giving, and community college giving.…

Discusses how UNext, a provider of online business courses, seems to have the academic and financial capital to be a dot-com survivor, but that customers aren't flocking to buy. (EV)

Describes how the trustees of Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, ousted the president, who had argued for a radical shift in strategy to combat falling enrollment, including the possibility of admitting men. (EV)