Under a deal with the Department of Energy, the University of California will continue to run key national laboratories. Despite objections from officials of the National Institutes of Health, Congress has created an institute to sponsor research on medical imaging and bioengineering. A government report calls for more coordination between secondary schools and higher-education institutions to help make students' senior year of high school meaningful. They may have other distractions, but college presidents should speak out on important issues, writes Theodore M. Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame. Trustees of Little Big Horn College fired its founding president after a months-long struggle at the Crow college.
College presidents enjoy a variety of official accommodations on their campuses.
The author of a new novel involving suicides at the University of Pennsylvania says the institution is trying to censor him. Carlin Romano, critic at large for The Chronicle, gives his take. As laptops proliferate on campuses, some professors are allowing students to use them to take midterm and final examinations. The Library of Congress is acquiring an electronic archive of the journals published by the American Physical Society. San Diego State University faces controversy and possible legal action in a conflict with an online-course provider.