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The article reports that accreditors and some college groups in the U.S. are aghast at a proposal to eliminate regional accreditors and replace them with a national accreditation body. The proposal is contained in a discussion paper released late last month by the secretary of education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education. The news came just as the chairman of the commission allayed another concern of college officials by publicly promising that a mandatory test of college students would not be among the panel's final recommendations.

This article presents comments on the job search in higher education, as well as on academic work and life. The author says that his main recommendation is to work hard with the students at the beginning of the semester to make it so they can write a good paper right away. One should give the students a very detailed proofreading checklist that they must go through before handing in the paper.

The article explores on the prevailing campus legends in the U.S. Campus myths are more than just amusing, according to Claire Howell Major, co-author of the article "Exam Scams and Classroom Flimflams: Urban Legends as an Alternative Lens for Viewing the College Classroom Experience." Major and Nathaniel Bray, her colleague in the department of higher education at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, point out that the legends tend to be stuck in a pre-politically correct era. An example of a campus myth is that of the two students who partied all night and came late for a final exam. To explain their lateness, they tell their professor they had a flat tire. The professor sends the students to separate rooms and hands them each a piece of paper. On it is a single question: Which tire?

The article reports that nationalist politics in Bosnia has blocked reforms at the country's universities and cost higher education substantial aid. Bosnian higher education in 2007 is still struggling to reform and rebuild itself 12 years after the end of the country's devastating war. While plans are frequently put on paper and receive the tacit approval of political leaders, but then are sacrificed in favor of other political, economic, or diplomatic priorities, including the rebuilding of destroyed buildings.

The article discusses issues related to the formation of alliances among people involved in higher education in the U.S. Alliances between contingent faculty members and graduate students are not untroubled. Many graduate students fear too close contact with people whom they judge as the failures of academe. In addition, their perches in Ph.D.-granting institutions can give them a narrow perspective on higher education that is at odds with reality and with the perspective of most contingent faculty members, many of whom don't have doctorates. Nevertheless, they have joined with contingent colleagues in the past and can profit from such cooperation in the future. The biennial conferences of the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor were born out of collaboration between the two groups in 1995 and will continue, with a seventh conference planned for this August. Those conferences gave birth to the biennial Campus Equity Week and a large collection of papers and other resources. Librarians, counselors, manual-service workers, and dozens of other types of staff members have been buffeted by technological changes, privatization and outsourcing, reorganizations, and plain old attrition and layoffs.

The article presents U.S. higher education news briefs as of August 15, 2014. The University of North Carolina's Board of Governors has voted to limit the amount of revenue that can be allocated for need-based financial aid. The U.S. Army War College has accused Senator John E. Walsh of Montana of plagiarism in a paper he submitted for his master's degree. Eight for-profit college companies have received nearly a quarter of all funds from the Post-9/11 GI Bill in 2012-2013.

Reports plans by colleges and universities in the United States to provide newspaper to students. Success of the plan at Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania; How the plan provides the papers and charges them to students' housing costs; Statistics on the number of college students reading newspapers; Increase in newspaper circulation; Criticism by some members of the College Media Advisers.

Reports on the paper written by Judith I. Gill, director of the Office of Research and Policy Analysis of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education in the U.S., which suggests that much of the research on the academic job market is of little use to administrators and policy makers who need to know if there will be an adequate supply of quality professors in the coming years. Projections of faculty demand in the arts and sciences; Reason for the limited applications of the studies.

The article presents information on the conditions in Zimbabwe, as of April 2007, which have caused the government to cease issuing passports for travel outside the country. Poverty and inflation have reached a point where the government does not have sufficient foreign currency to purchase passport paper, which it ran out of in late 2006. Zimbabwean students who have been accepted at universities in the United States and other countries cannot leave the country and consequently are unable to attend. During the 2005-2006 school year, 1,700 Zimbabwean students studied in the United States.

The article discusses reforms to the system of college and university accreditation as contained in the draft report of the U.S. Commission on the Future of Higher Education. The commission stopped short of calling for changes to the regional system. In an earlier position paper, issued in March 2006, the commission was considering the idea of establishing a national accreditation body to replace the six regional accreditors that oversee 3,000 U.S. institutions of higher education. The article mentions that the commission report does call for more public disclosure of accreditors' findings.

The article reports that the two higher-education associations representing the nation's public colleges are calling on their members to develop their own voluntary approach that would allow the public to compare similar institutions. The recommendation was the main thrust of a paper released by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, which represents more than 400 state colleges, and of one released by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, which represents more than 200 public research institutions.

This article focuses on "Baseball," a senior seminar at Maryville College, Tennessee. When Jeff M. Bay, an associate professor of statistics, decided to create a seminar about baseball, he started with what he knew best. He established another section about how the game, set against the backdrop of American history, rose to become the national pastime. Students prepared presentations on specific baseball players, focusing on the broader history of the decade in which those players were active. For the culture component of the course, the students wrote papers on such topics as baseball in Cuba and the historical movement to allow games on Sundays.

Offers world news briefs concerning higher education as of September 26, 2003. Statement given by Hans Karle, president of the World Federation for Medical Education, at the general assembly of the World Medical Association in Helsinki, Finland; Decision of the University of Zimbabwe to send some students' examination papers to universities in neighboring Zambia for grading.

Reports on articles concerning the higher education in the United States, published in various journals. Job notice circulated at Oberlin College; Classified advertisement in 'The Northerner,' the paper at Northern Kentucky University; News item in 'Current Sauce,' a newspaper at Northwestern State University in Louisiana.

Discusses issues pertaining to the educational programs created by the U.S. Congress through the Higher Education Act, yet exist only on paper. Reason why supporters of the programs argue that the publicity of the programs generate will prompt the legislative body to provide needed funds sometime in the future; Reason why Titles I, VII and XI of the Higher Education Act are no longer needed.

Reports that a paper on telecommunications on campuses titled 'An Information Technology Manager's Guide to Campus Phone Operations,' was published by CAUSE, the association for management of information technology in higher education in the U.S.