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1. When east met west

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Universities and colleges -- Management, College teaching -- Germany, Education
Abstract

Most of the 60 former East German universities have been reorganized into institutions which reflect western-style educational programs and teaching. Enrollment has risen and schools may experience overcrowding in five years time as enrollment goals are achieved. The process has been costly. West German institutions have borne the brunt of the financing costs and lawsuits filed by many of the over 20,000 professors who lost their jobs are still pending.

Published
1996

3. Congress stops giving heartburn to accreditors

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
United States. Congress. House of Representatives -- Education policy, Universities and colleges -- Licensing, certification and accreditation, Universities and colleges -- United States, Education
Abstract

The US House of Representatives is considering, legislation that would redefine how the nation's colleges are accredited for more transparency and openness in the accreditation process. The legislation in question is the Higher Education Reauthorization Act, the main law setting federal higher-education policy, which Congress must renew every six years.

Published
2005

4. Wanted in Sweden: female professors: a progressive society finds gender parity is hard to come by in academe

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Women college teachers -- Recruiting, Universities and colleges -- Demographic aspects, Sex distribution (Demography) -- Management, Sexual harassment -- Cases, Education
Abstract

Sweden finds the fact that only 11% of the full professors at its universities are women to be an embarrassment and is making every effort to recruit more women faculty. An e-mail message about a plan to drop two male professors in favor of a less qualified women has ignited worries of reverse discrimination.

Published
2002

5. German investigators seek to unravel a mammoth case of scientific fraud

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Biologists -- Ethical aspects, Fraud in science -- Investigations, Science and ethics -- Cases, Education
Abstract

Allegations of scientific fraud against two prominent biologists has created a huge scandal among the academic community in Germany. The scholars are accused of falsifying data in approximately 50 papers, and as a result, researchers who worked with the two are also implicated in the fraud.

Published
1998

6. Italy's minister of education pushes to break up overcrowded universities

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Public universities and colleges -- Italy, Higher education and state -- Italy, Education
Abstract

Italy's Minister of Public Education and acting Minister of Universities and Research, Luigi Berlinguer, has proposed reforms to alleviate overcrowding, boost public participation, improve the quality of instruction and increase graduation rates at Italy's universities. He wants to split Italy's three largest universities at Milan and Rome into a number of smaller institutions. Milan administrators support the plan but the University of Rome's rector does not. Berlinguer also proposes changing faculty promotion procedures and increasing each school's freedom to develop curriculum and limit admissions.

Published
1997

7. The debate over deaf education: technological changes are shaking up the teaching of the hearing impaired

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Hearing impaired children -- Education -- Forecasts and trends -- Technology application, Teaching -- Equipment and supplies, Deaf -- Education, Education, Market trend/market analysis, Technology application, Forecasts and trends
Abstract

DANIEL S. KOO was born deaf. When he was 4 he started attending a public school where he spent part of each week getting intensive training in speaking and listening [...]

Published
2006

8. Federal panel floats plan to overhaul accreditation: college leaders decry replacing regional boards with a national system

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
United States. Department of Education -- Planning -- Education policy, Accreditation (Education) -- Forecasts and trends, Educational reform -- Planning -- Forecasts and trends, Education, Company business planning, Market trend/market analysis, Planning, Education policy, Forecasts and trends
Abstract

ACCREDITORS and some college groups 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 [...]

Published
2006

9. Better Internet access sought for researchers around the world: industrialized nations push for faster connections and uniform regulations

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Internet -- Usage, Online services -- International aspects, Education
Abstract

Representatives and officials from 27 industrialized countries met in Elsinore, Denmark to discuss the potential of the Internet for academic research. Their goals include making sure that research institutions have excellent Internet connections; that they foster cooperation in developing international standards covering key issues; and that they secure foreign aid to provide Internet connections in Third World countries.

Published
1996

10. Bosnia's desperate campuses

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
War and education -- Social aspects, Education
Abstract

Universities in Bosnia are functioning despite the difficulties caused by the war between the breakaway republics of former Yugoslavia. A considerable decrease in the number of students and scholars, destruction of educational material, lack of help from outside, and the constant bombing and blockades have made life more difficult. A UN-sponsored ceasefire in Sarajevo and the Open Society Fund have brought some relief to the universities.

Published
1994

11. Battling fundamentalism

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Universities and colleges -- Saudi Arabia, Islamic fundamentalism -- Influence, Education
Abstract

The Egyptian government believes that a thorough screening of applications for student leadership posts will help control the influence of fundamentalist ideas in schools and colleges. Students oppose the influence of fundamentalists and opposition resulted in violent incidents in Alexandria University and Cairo University. Pres Hosni Mubarak plans to keep religion away from the education system.

Published
1994

12. East Europe's universities struggle to cope as aid dwindles

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Eastern Europe -- Social policy, Universities and colleges -- Finance, Education
Abstract

Declining financial support from governments means that Eastern European universities must now compete with each other for funds. Administrators must now seek to develop new revenue sources and manage their existing resources better. One major potential revenue source is tuition fees, and some countries are now looking at this idea. However, for the foreseeable future, the biggest single source of funds for Eastern European universities is still expected to be the state, and academic reformers are calling for new criteria for the distribution of state funds for higher education.

Published
1993

13. Hundreds of American academics are drawn to the Czech republic

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Czechoslovakia -- Social aspects, College teachers -- Practice, Higher education and state, Educational innovations -- Evaluation, Education
Abstract

The liberalization of Czechoslovakia from Communist rules has opened up many opportunities for teachers and academics from the US. Despite problems such as organizational differences, the language barrier, a shortage of resources and occasional racial discrimination, the Czechs and Americans are on the way to forging an effective higher education curriculum. Law schools are being revived, democratic constitutions and laws are being written and curriculum development and teaching methods are being westernized.

Published
1993

14. Europe's academic leaders work to make higher-education systems compatible

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Europe -- Social policy, Universities and colleges -- Europe, Education, Higher -- Social policy, Education
Abstract

Academic leaders in Europe are eyeing a way to make university programs compatible with one another to promote student mobility. This move is a response to American and Japanese economical competitiveness. Supporters of the idea are pushing for a 'European dimension' in curricula, however, institutions are proceeding slowly since education traditionally has been a closely-guarded national policy.

Published
1992

19. 20 years after the Islamic revolution, Iran's campuses begin to loosen up

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Schools -- Iran, Politics -- Iran, Academic freedom -- Iran, Politics and education -- Iran, University autonomy -- Iran, Universities and colleges -- Iran, Education -- Iran, Teaching, Freedom of -- Iran, Education
Abstract

TEHRAN IN SOME OF THE FIRST organized academic visits to Iran by Americans since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Brian Spooner, a professor of Persian studies at the University of Pennsylvania [...]

Published
2000

22. U. of Nebraska Sues Government Over Visa Request for Bolivian Historian

Author

BOLLAG, BURTON

Subjects
United States -- Cases, Visas -- Cases, Emigration and immigration -- Cases, Scholars -- Cases, Company legal issue, Education, University of Nebraska-Lincoln -- Cases
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG The University of Nebraska at Lincoln has sued the U.S. government to try to force it to respond to a petition the institution filed 21 months ago [...]

Published
2007

23. Education Department Relents on Measuring Achievement

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
United States. Department of Education -- Standards, Academic achievement -- Measurement -- Standards, Education
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Ever since last spring, when the federal Commission on the Future of Higher Education floated an idea to dismantle the current college-accreditation system, accrediting groups have been [...]

Published
2007

24. Teacher Association Backs 1 Accreditor

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Teachers -- Training, Teacher centers -- Standards, Education, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education -- Political activity -- Services -- Standards
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is trying to promote a strong accreditation system to improve teacher training and to ward off possible government moves [...]

Published
2007

25. Federal Judge Rules Against Accreditor

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Accreditation (Education) -- Cases, Small colleges -- Cases, Company legal issue, Education, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools -- Cases
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG At a time when the U.S. Education Department is pressing accreditors to be stricter with the colleges they oversee, a federal judge has issued a ruling favorable [...]

Published
2007

26. Coalition of Diverse Groups Calls for a More Open U.S. Visa Policy

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
United States -- Social policy, Visas -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, Education
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Despite improvements, U.S. visa-approval procedures are still needlessly slow and unfriendly for foreign scholars, students, and others, and are in urgent need of revision, a coalition of [...]

Published
2007

27. A Top Physicist Turns to Teaching

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Physicists -- Services -- Interviews, Sciences education -- Curricula, Education, University of British Columbia -- Officials and employees -- Services
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Vancouver, British Columbia -- On an upper shelf in Carl E. Wieman's campus office here are a dozen framed awards representing the highest honors in his field, [...]

Published
2007

28. Drake U. Course Offers Training in Sacred-Cow Tipping

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Universities and colleges -- Curricula, Satire -- Influence -- Educational aspects, Education, Drake University -- Curricula -- Evaluation
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG 'Modern Political Satire,' Drake University There are no sacred cows in this course, which explores how satire has been used to mock everything dear to anyone. For [...]

Published
2007

29. Mentally Handicapped Students Take Part in a Freshman Seminar on Disabilities

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Education, Humanistic -- Study and teaching -- Conferences, meetings and seminars, Disabled students -- Education -- Conferences, meetings and seminars -- Study and teaching, Education
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG 'Human Ability: Unplugged,' College of New Jersey This freshman seminar is one of the few liberal-arts courses in the country where students with intellectual disabilities study alongside [...]

Published
2007

30. Fury Over a Student Center

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Universities and colleges -- United States -- Names -- Cases, Company legal issue, Education
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG In New York, a controversy ignited after the Daily News tabloid protested the almost two-decades-old unofficial name of a small student center at the City College of [...]

Published
2007

31. Not for Women Only

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Women's colleges -- Names, Education, Randolph-Macon Woman's College -- Names
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG After a painful decision in September to admit men (The Chronicle, September 22, 2006), Randolph-Macon Woman's College has settled on a new name. As of July 1, [...]

Published
2007

32. Update on Accreditation Actions Taken by Regional Organizations

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Accreditation (Education) -- Evaluation, Universities and colleges -- United States -- Licensing, certification and accreditation -- Evaluation, Education
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Regional accrediting bodies took the following actions during the last two months: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Bishop State Community College, a historically black two-year public [...]

Published
2007

33. Course Explores the Changing Meaning of Miracles

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Theology -- Study and teaching, Education, University of Notre Dame -- Curricula -- Study and teaching
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG 'Miracles,' University of Notre Dame A recent university news release lauding this course mocked secular explanations for what the Christian faiths hold as miracles. Skeptics, for example, [...]

Published
2007

34. Iraq's National Library and Archive Closes

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Libraries, National -- Organization dissolution, Education
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG After months of determined efforts to keep going amid Iraq's deepening violence and chaos, the National Library and Archive, the country's largest depository of books and documents, [...]

Published
2006

35. Education Department Penalizes Accreditor, Raising Fears of Federal Standards for Colleges

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
United States. Department of Education -- Discipline -- Standards, Education -- Standards, Universities and colleges -- United States -- Standards, Education, American Academy for Liberal Education -- Discipline -- Licensing, certification and accreditation -- Standards -- Reports
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG An Education Department committee that oversees accreditation organizations has barred the American Academy for Liberal Education from accrediting new institutions or programs for at least half a [...]

Published
2006

36. 32 Americans Win Rhodes Scholarships

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Rhodes scholarships -- Finance, College students -- Achievements and awards -- Finance, Company financing, Education, University of Oxford -- Achievements and awards
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Thirty-two American students were named as Rhodes scholars in November. The distinction covers all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford, [...]

Published
2006

37. UCLA Plans External Investigation of Police Officers' Use of Stun Gun on Student

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Stun devices -- Usage -- Planning, Criminal investigation -- Planning -- Usage, Company business planning, Education, University of California, Los Angeles -- Planning -- Crimes against
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG The University of California at Los Angeles plans to hire an independent investigator to examine whether campus police officers used excessive force when they shot a student [...]

Published
2006

38. At Delaware Valley College, a Course Seeks to Demystify Wine

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Wine -- History -- Study and teaching, Agricultural students -- Education -- Study and teaching, Wine and wine making -- Study and teaching, Education, Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture -- Curricula -- History -- Study and teaching
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG 'The History and Craft of Wine,' Delaware Valley College Robert M. Pierson, who teaches the course, has had a lifelong love affair with wine. In fact he [...]

Published
2006

39. Award-Winning Teaching

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
College teachers -- Achievements and awards -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Education, Council for Advancement and Support of Education -- Achievements and awards, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching -- Achievements and awards -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Consider four professors: One says he is a fraud, one encourages students to dig up old inner-city churchyards, one dresses up as a black hole, and one [...]

Published
2006

40. Scores of Men Abducted in Raid on Iraqi Higher-Education Office

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Educational organizations -- Crimes against -- Military aspects -- Forecasts and trends, Insurgency -- Iraq -- Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Education
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG In a grim escalation of violence against Iraqi higher education, gunmen attacked the offices of a government education agency in Baghdad last week and abducted scores of [...]

Published
2006

41. Spellings Wants to Use Accreditation as a Cudgel

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
United States -- Education policy, Accreditation (Education) -- Laws, regulations and rules, Education, Higher -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, Education
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Washington -- When the federal Commission on the Future of Higher Education delivered its final report to the secretary of education in September, accreditors and many higher-education [...]

Published
2006

42. Enrollment of Foreign Students Holds Steady

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
College attendance -- Forecasts and trends -- Statistics, Students, Foreign -- Education -- Statistics -- Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Education
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG The number of foreign students in the United States remained steady last academic year, ending two years of declines. At the same time, the number of new [...]

Published
2006

43. 2 Trustees Resign From Gallaudet U

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
College trustees -- Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Education, Gallaudet University -- Officials and employees
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG The acting chair of the Board of Trustees of Gallaudet University resigned last week, a day after Sen. John McCain also stepped down from the board. Both [...]

Published
2006

44. Foreign Enrollment at Graduate Schools Increases, Reversing a 3-Year Decline

Author

BOLLAG, BURTON

Subjects
Students, Foreign -- Statistics -- Forecasts and trends -- Educational aspects, Market trend/market analysis, Education
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Total foreign enrollment at American graduate schools increased by 1 percent this fall, after three consecutive years of decline. In what is seen as a promising sign, [...]

Published
2006

45. Campus Rift Continues to Widen at Gallaudet

Author

Bollag, Burton and Farrell, Elizabeth F.

Subjects
Gallaudet University -- Management -- Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Student movements -- Forecasts and trends, Education, Company business management, Market trend/market analysis, Management, Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Forecasts and trends
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG and ELIZABETH F. FARRELL Washington -- The arrests this month of 133 protesters who had blocked the main entrance to Gallaudet University allowed classes to resume but [...]

Published
2006

46. Protesters Shut Gallaudet Campus

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Gallaudet University -- Human resource management, College presidents -- Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Student movements, Education, Company personnel management, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Human resource management
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG A student-led protest against the choice of a new president for Gallaudet University intensified into a shutdown of the campus last week and raised questions about whether [...]

Published
2006

47. The Cultivation of a Culture

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Bolivia -- Domestic policy, Drug dealing -- Forecasts and trends -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Social aspects, Coca -- Production data, Drug traffic -- Forecasts and trends -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Social aspects, Anthropologists -- Social aspects -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Practice, Education, Government regulation, Market trend/market analysis, Practice, Domestic policy, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Social aspects, Production data, Forecasts and trends, Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Yungas region, Bolivia -- Time and again, Alison L. Spedding set out early in the morning with one or another small group of women and children here [...]

Published
2006

48. New Accreditor Gains Ground in Teacher Education

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
National Council of Accreditation of Teacher Education -- Management, Accreditation (Education) -- Management -- Forecasts and trends, Teachers -- Training, Teacher centers -- Forecasts and trends -- Management, Educational organizations -- Aims and objectives -- Forecasts and trends, Education, Company business management, Market trend/market analysis, Management, Aims and objectives, Forecasts and trends
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG A newcomer is challenging the organization that has accredited colleges of teacher education for more than a half-century. The Teacher Education Accrediting Council, or TEAC, which is [...]

Published
2006

49. A Course on Conflict Resolution Is Personal for the 2 Professors Who Team-Teach It

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
University of Maryland, College Park -- Curricula -- Officials and employees, Conflict management -- Study and teaching, Israel-Arab conflicts -- Study and teaching, College teachers -- Practice -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Education, Practice, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Curricula, Study and teaching, Officials and employees
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG 'Conflict Resolution: The Israeli-Palestinian Experiment,' University of Maryland at College Park Every summer two professors -- one Israeli, one Palestinian -- share a house, a cellphone, and [...]

Published
2006

50. Iran's Leader Pressures Academics

Author

Bollag, Burton

Subjects
Universities and colleges -- Iran -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Forecasts and trends, Education, Government regulation, Market trend/market analysis, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Education policy, Laws, regulations and rules, Forecasts and trends
Abstract

Byline: BURTON BOLLAG Iran's hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has turned up the pressure on the country's universities by calling on conservative students to oppose liberal and secular faculty members. 'Today [...]

Published
2006

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