However, only 221 out of about 900 graduate students were eligible to vote and will be covered by any contract the new union negotiates. Members of the New England Small College Athletic Conference voted unanimously Wednesday to allow the conference's championship teams, in sports other than football, to participate in postseason play. A University of New Mexico football player was arrested Saturday and charged with attempted murder after he allegedly attacked a track athlete. About 50 computer-savvy history professors gathered at the first meeting of the American Association for History and Computing on Friday and Saturday to talk about how technology is changing their profession. They found they had more questions than answers.
Graduate students create an on-line journal about technology in middle schools.
More scholars are focusing on popular music as a key to examining culture and history. A Chronicle survey indicates that colleges are paying more to coaches of men's and women's teams, but that a gender gap persists. Graduate schools that offer the hybrid degree are finding that it is popular, attracting doctors, nurses, and business students. Pepperdine University's effort to recruit Kenneth W. Starr as dean of its law school and public-policy school was part of a broader campaign to build its programs while adhering to a Christian, conservative philosophy.