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This section presents a table showing the compensation received by the chief executives at each of 589 private colleges, plus 120 specialized institutions.

Focuses on the efforts of the American University of Beirut to rebuild its identity following the civil war in Lebanon. Development of a distinct research profile for the university focusing on health, agricultural and water issues distinctive to the Middle East; Difficulties faced by the university in recruiting professors and study-abroad students from the U.S.; Impact of the civil war which broke out in 1975 on the university. INSETS: During the Beirut War Years, Professors Braved Bullets,Shelli..;Lebanon's Only Public University Mirrors a CountryStill Divided.

The article discusses issues related to the arrests of 133 protesters who had blocked the main entrance to Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. The arrests allowed classes to resume but did not end the crisis at the nation's only university for the deaf. In fact, students involved in the protests said the arrests and the decision of the university's president, I. King Jordan, to postpone homecoming festivities had rallied even more supporters to their cause. Faculty members, who met three days after the arrests, overwhelmingly sided with the protesting students. Student protest leaders vowed to boycott classes in support of their demands that the search for a new president be reopened.

The article reports that at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, not only does every freshman have to take a liberal-arts course, but almost all professors have to teach it. Lawrence University and Eckerd College have similar programs. Robert M. Dawley, a professor of biology. Yet, like most faculty members at Ursinus College, a small liberal-arts institution 20 miles outside Philadelphia, he teaches a core liberal-arts seminar that all first-year students take. Dawley admits the requirement takes time away from professors' work in their own disciplines.

Discusses how college professors in the Basque Region of France are being attacked by ETA, or the Basque Homeland and Liberty, a guerrilla movement that demands an independent Basque homeland. Recount of how the region suffered repression; Information on the professors who have been killed or injured.

Points out that the Persian Gulf crisis seems destined to negatively affect higher education throughout the Arab world. Inability of Palestinian teachers to reclaim jobs they were forced to give up because of the conflict; Possible absence of financial aid for the six Palestinian universities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Discusses the higher education system in Turkey. Enrollments that are increasing at state higher education institutions; Academic standards that have suffered due to rapid expansion of the system; Trained academics that are in short supply; The high priority of finding ways to strengthen the new universities.

The article presents information on the universities in Czechoslovakia after the defeat of communism. Some of the faculty members were dismissed from Czechoslovakia's universities for failing to obey the new hard-line regime. Some instructors took up manual jobs to feed the family. All these teachers are being welcomed enthusiastically by the university.

The article reports on the number of East German university instructors and students who joined demonstrators for democracy as the country continued to be affected by political crisis. The university demonstrators, who demanded democracy within the ruling Communist Party, called for a special party congress to dismiss the aging bureaucrats who are in the government.

The article reports on the liberal reforms currently in progress at the universities in Eastern Europe. Their moves to explore radical new approaches to replace the centralized control by governments reflect the political changes in their societies. They want to be more flexible in setting curricula and selecting teachers and teaching methods. The most dramatic changes occur in Poland and Hungary.

The article reports that Bolivian scholar Waskar T. Ari Chachaki has received a visa to work in the United States more than two years after he was hired to teach at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and several months after the university sued the federal government to let him into the United States. The government has never given Mr. Ari, or the university, an explanation of why it refused to give him a visa for two years, or why it decided to grant him one now, prompting academic rights-advocates to claim the Bush administration had political reasons for the denial.

The article looks at foreign academics who have been barred from coming to the U.S. Tariq Ramadan, a well-known European Islamic intellectual, was hired by the University of Notre Dame for an endowed chair at the Joan B. Kroc Institute from International Peace Studies. U.S. authorities abruptly canceled his visa and prevented him from taking the job. A government spokesman invoked a provision of the U.S. Patriot Act, allowing authorities to bar anyone who endorses or espouses terrorist activity. Ramadan had made contributions to European groups providing humanitarian aid to Palestinians. The article also discusses the barred entry of Bolivian historian Waskar T. Ari, Canadian-Algerian physicist Karim Meziane, and Cuban scientist Vicente Verez-Bencomo.

The article looks at the syllabus for the freshmen seminar "Human Ability: Unplugged," at the College of New Jersey. According to the article, the course is one of the few liberal-arts courses in the U.S. where students with intellectual disabilities study alongside typical students. The course examines the portrayal of mental disabilities in literature and film. In addition, middle-aged developmentally impaired people are invited to speak to the class and are interviewed by small groups of students who produce short oral histories about them. Comments from Jerry G. Petroff, an assistant professor of special education who helped set up a liberal-arts certificate program for students with cognitive impairments, are presented.

The article looks at the class "The History and Craft of Wine," taught by professor Robert M. Pierson at Delaware Valley College. The course offers an introduction to the history of wine and its geographical, political, and sociological importance through the ages. During the course, students taste more than 100 different wines. At the end of the semester, students take a blind taste test, in which they are each expected to be able to identify the grape variety and country of origin of several different wines. Most students in the one-credit course are food-science majors.

This article reports that dozens of Iranian professors and alumni en route to a university reunion in California had their visas revoked after they landed in the United States in August 2006, and then were sent back home, according to news reports and a participant who attended the weekend gathering. Graduates and faculty members of Sharif University of Technology, a prestigious institution in Iran, held the reunion in Santa Clara, California. Attending the event were about 600 participants, most of whom were U.S. residents.

The article presents information on a detainment of Greek professor John Milios at an airport in New York City. The professor was detained on his arrival at the airport, questioned for several hours about his political views, and then put on a flight back to Athens, Greece. He was scheduled to present a paper at How Class Works, a three-day conference attended by some 200 scholars from various countries and organized by Stony Brook's Center for Study of Working Class Life.

The article reports that the federal government of the United States has withheld the visa of Bolivian Scholar Waskar T. Ari, who was hired by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln as an assistant professor of history and ethnic studies. The scholar has been unable to take up his post due to this reason. The scholar earned a Ph.D. in history from Georgetown University in the year 2005. According to Barbara S. Weinstein, history professor at the University of Maryland at College Park, the situation is quite disturbing. While speaking on behalf of Ari, she further speculated that there must be a reason of ethnicity behind not issuing the visa.

This article reports on a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenging a provision of the USA Patriot Act that was used to deny a visa to at least one prominent foreign scholar, Tariq Ramadan. The provision allowed the federal government to bar him, the ACLU asserts, solely because the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush disapproved of his political views. In August 2004, Ramadan, an influential professor of Islamic studies and philosophy whose home is in Geneva, Switzerland, was informed that the U.S. had revoked his visa, a step that prevented him from taking a tenured teaching position at the University of Notre Dame. In its complaint, filed in the federal district court in Manhattan, the ACLU said that the government is using the provision broadly to deny entry to people whose political views it disfavors.

The article reports that the president of Tehran University of Tehran, Iran, was abruptly replaced by conservative cleric Abbasali Amid Zanjani. The move at Iran's leading university prompted student protests and concerns over academic freedom. Zanjani, who is an ayatollah or senior Islamic cleric and an associate professor of Islamic law at Tehran, was named to the post by the government of Iran. The government has also replaced the heads of at least a dozen other major universities. While it is common practice for a new Iranian president to replace university leaders, critics said they were dismayed that the changes had been made so suddenly this time.

Focuses on a course in which students will do a research on venerable old items established by history professor Philip N. Racine at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Responses of the students to Racine's four-week course; Example of Racine's student works; Assignments and reading requirements for the course.

Presents updates on several higher education officials in the U.S. as of February 2005. Demands of the Board of Trustees of Huntington College for the dismissal of professor John E. Sanders; Complaints of Mary Higgins, president of the Coalition of University Employees, on the appointment of a chancellor of the University of California; Creation of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity to be lead by John Edwards, a former trial lawyer and senator.

Reports on the petition for the U.S. and its allies to stop the assassinations of Iraqi professors, written and circulated by Andrew N. Rubin, assistant professor of English at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 2004. Background on a similar report released by the Union of University Lecturers in Iraq; Details of the petition.

Presents updates on educational system in several countries as of March 26, 2004. Details of a report about the possibility that British undergraduates could be outnumbered by foreign students at the University of Oxford; Strike involving professors at the Bishop's University in Canada; Restriction given by U.S. authorities to medical professors and physician from travelling to Cuba to attend an international conference on brain injury.

Presents updates on events and issues related to higher education as of March 19, 2004. Reason for the increase of foreign student population in Australia in 2003; Move of scientists in France to vote en masse to stop doing administrative tasks to protest the government's lack of financing for their work; Protests in Bangladesh triggered by the stabbing of Humayun Azad, a prominent literature professor at the University of Dhaka.

Focuses on the action taken by several university faculty members in Iran in signing an appeal asking for the release of colleagues who were arrested on charges of conspiring against the Islamic regime. Reactions from college students on the matter; Implications of the arrest; Contents of the appeal.

Presents international news briefs as of February 11, 2000. Universities in Great Britain to investigate teaching applicants with a credit-reference agency; The London Business School in England and Insead in Fontainebleau, France being in the top ten schools specializing in Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs; Enrollment increase at Russian universities; South African government to allow Australia's Monash University and the Netherlands Business School to open campuses in South Africa.

Reports on the establishment of Sabanci University and Koc University, which are private educational institutions in Turkey. Similarities between the two universities; Competition for top academics; Criticisms against private education.

Looks into the problems of East German scholars who lost academic jobs in the years following the toppling of the Berlin Wall. Stories of Karl-Heinz Strech, Anni Seide, Siegfried Prokop, and Bruno Hartmann, four former East German academics.

Reports that the government of Denmark is ending its subsidy program for the sciences at institutions of higher education. How the University of Copenhagen will be forced to reduce its number of faculty.

Reports on the arrest of 36 Iranian professors of the Bahai Open University during a series of raids by Iranian authorities. Estimated number of homes which were raided by security officers under the direction of Iran's Ministry of Information, a government intelligence agency; Declining of the Iranian authorities in Teheran to comment on these raids; Circumstances surrounding these raids.

Focuses on the research of Elsa Guggino, a professor of the history of folklore at the University of Palermo in Italy. Her work to document the music, magical beliefs, and other traditions of her native Sicily; Detailing the tunafish harvest known as the mattanza.