Discussion of the increasing price competition in higher education provides tables, graphs, and analyses of the higher education market and examines implications of offering attractive financial aid packages to better students. Finds price competition results in a greater concentration of talented students at high-resource schools and declining…

The Rhodes Scholarship has traditionally been for males only - this article describes women's battle to open the scholarship to all qualified persons. (PG)

Describes a new way to link graduate education and entrepreneurship, the Intellectual Entrepreneurship program at the University of Texas at Austin, which provides opportunities for graduate students to discover how they can use their expertise to make meaningful and lasting differences in their academic disciplines and communities--to become…

A humorous guide advises scholars on how to channel their intellectual energies into becoming "distinguished scholars." Four suggestions include invent a continuum; learn more about something than anybody else has; compare the unrelated works of famous people; and draw upon knowledge from other disciplines. (MLW)

The author recounts the involvement of American scholars in public affairs during the 60s and speculates about the role of scholarship in the future. (Editor)

Reports on four case studies developed at The Carnegie Foundation as part of a larger inquiry into cultures of teaching in higher education today. Examines professorial careers that are being crafted around the scholarship of teaching and learning at doctoral and research universities. (EV)

Equal opportunities in collegiate sports, single-sex scholarships and fellowships, and sex bias in curricular material are discussed in relation to Title IX. (Author/PG)

Author criticizes Maryland's $2.5 million in scholarships awarded exclusively by state senators to their constituents. (HS)

The Institute for Research in History, a nonprofit organization founded by four women that allows historians, regardless of how they make a living, to continue their work outside academe, is described. The scholarly group offers historians an opportunity to exchange ideas and gain new perspectives by working with specialists outside their fields.…

Reviews programs such as the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and literature on the scholarship of teaching at the higher education level. Suggests that the scholarship of teaching is not synonymous with excellent teaching, but requires faculty to "go meta," to systematically investigate questions of student learning.…

The Mina Shaughnessy Scholars Program provides funds for innovators in postsecondary education to develop and disseminate their ideas. Its goal is to improve practice, rather than to advance knowledge, and the search is for practitioners who can make the most difference in improving postsecondary education. (MLW)

The University of Chicago Press is the largest university press in the country. As a nonprofit organization with its primary concern its contribution to scholarship, the press can invest time on projects it deems worthy even though some might take decades to complete. (MLW)

Problems arising from the "willful innocence" of researchers about the implications of their work for society are discussed. It is argued that it is the obligation of scholars to help keep science from being misused, by opening collaboration between scientist and nonscientist and by creating in the academy a real home for the changing models of…

Asked seven faculty members who have participated in a teaching initiative at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning to write case studies about ethical issues they confronted in their work. Three themes surfaced repeatedly: (1) sharing student work; (2) choosing methods; and (3) the ethics of bad news. (SLD)

Jewish studies have split into two camps. The one camp is the ethnic and the other is the academic. The crisis of ethnic studies arose because the ethnics ignored the disciplines of the academy, and because the academy found a way to segregate the ethnics. (MLW)