Excerpts from five Supreme Court justices' opinions (Powell, O'Connor, White, Marshall, and Stevens) in a decision striking down an affirmative-action agreement protecting the jobs of minority-group teachers with less seniority than some white teachers during layoffs are presented. (MSE)

An interdisciplinary, upper-division course examining leadership and its relationship to liberal learning, is described, which is taught at the College of Wooster by 12 faculty from different departments and culminating in a national conference featuring prominent leaders and scholars. (MSE)

The Dad Vail Regatta, the world's largest intercollegiate rowing regatta, attracted teams from 73 colleges in 1986 in a broad-based competition, requiring women to row the same race that men row. It is evidence of a growing interest in rowing as an intercollegiate sport. (MSE)

A New Jersey plan to turn people without education degrees into schoolteachers is discussed. Some New Jersey education officials are concerned that schools have hired relatively few of the new provisional teachers, and some are critical of the quality of preparation the teachers receive. (MLW)

A major lobbying and advertising effort on behalf of women's athletics of the University of Minnesota, one of the few major sports-playing institutions where the women's athletic department operates independently from the men's program, is described. (MLW)

South Africa's universities face difficult challenges, including: universities are admitting more blacks but tensions are intruding; Afrikaans universities student leaders are challenging principles of White rule; Black universities are trying to deal with third-world problems; scholars are focusing on problems of South Africa; and pressures…

Appropriations actions are listed for Alabama, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alaska, Connecticut, and Missouri. They are divided into those signed by governors and those awaiting signatures. (MLW)

The Supreme Court decision to let stand a lower-court ruling that allows a government agency to inspect confidential documents in a faculty tenure case is discussed. An appeal by Franklin and Marshall College on a decision granting the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission access to tenure materials was declined. (MLW)

The need for a new professional role for teachers that requires the participation of teachers and their unions in the center of school governance is discussed. The concepts of "shared authority" and " collegiality" are measures of professionalism that teachers want to assimilate into their school operations. (MLW)

Recognizing that today's graduate student is tomorrow's professor, some institutions have begun working to convince minority-group members that faculty careers will be prestigious, rewarding, and available. Their efforts center on increased financial support in the form of graduate and postdoctoral fellowships. (MLW)

Many academic administrators consider the future job market "a golden opportunity" for universities to increase the representation of women on their faculties. However, lingering sexual bias in hiring and promotion decisions, as well as a shortage of women with doctorates in scientific fields, may cloud that promise. (MLW)

More than 10 percent of the incoming freshman players at institutions in the NCAA's Division I are ineligible to play football or basketball this year because they did not meet new academic requirements. An overwhelming majority of the ineligible players are black. (MLW)

Research on aging has contributed toward undermining negative stereotypes. In the last 20 years, the sociology of age has developed as a field that deals not only with growing old, but also with growing older from birth onward. The new role of grandparents is described. (MLW)

Under the College Housing Loan Program, the Education Department lends money to colleges to build and refurbish dormitories and other student facilities. Problems plaguing the loan program are discussed. Both colleges and the federal government have broken most of the rules governing the program. (MLW)

The book "Great Good Fortune: How Harvard Makes Its Money," written by Carl A. Vigeland, is critical of some of the policies and methods the university has adopted to help strengthen its financial position. Harvard's $350-million campaign is the backdrop for the examination of how the university raises money. (MLW)