The following are news bulletins from The Chronicle of Higher Education for Wednesday, September 20. Academe Today is brought to you as a service of the Department of University Relations. Join Mary A. Burgan, general secretary of the American Association of University Professors, for a live online conversation on Thursday at noon, U.S. Eastern time. Fellowships for research in astronomy and astrophysics. Information science, chromosomes, and more.
Many colleges have unstated expectations about the duties of the wife of the chief executive.
You may join an online discussion about the issues raised in this article in Colloquy. Turkey's Anadolu University boasts 504,000 students, thanks largely to a distance-education program that uses both printed and broadcast materials. Despite their apathy toward the campaign, this may be the most important vote of their lives, write John Lyman Mason and Michael Nelson, who teach political science at Rhodes College. The animal-rights movement is hindering important research, and scientists need to be more assertive in rejecting its ideas, write Frederick K. Goodwin and Adrian R. Morrison. They also explore social conditions that make it possible for the movement to increase its support.