The University of California's professional schools are considering the impact on them of the disputed plan to abolish affirmative action throughout the university system. The Senate is in the final stages of a debate that seems likely to lead to some student-aid increases for fiscal 1996. The AmeriCorps program has announced that it will cut costs, and Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, a key Republican Senator, has backed away from a call to kill the program. Many states are trying to force debtors to pay off student loans by revoking their professional licenses. Unfortunately, the action also restricts the debtors' ability to work.
Students protest Republican plans at colleges across the country.
Some professors and students say they are taking the heat for negative comments published in a recent Chronicle story about the college. Oxford University has drawn criticism for accepting a gift from the grandson of a Nazi war criminal. THE GOLD KEY Students once coveted membership in Phi Beta Kappa, but now some colleges report that many qualified undergraduates aren't interested in joining. Each has filed a lawsuit. The United States' ban on trade with Cuba has devastated that country's universities as well as its economy, argues Edward T. Walsh, a former chaplain at North Carolina State University.