Here are news bulletins from The Chronicle of Higher Education for Friday, December 3. Academe Today is brought to you as a service of the Office of University Relations. Colleges and universities are engaging in longer capital campaigns, and relying on relatively fewer donors to give them the largest chunks of money, a new report shows. The Modern Language Association has announced that it will honor 20 scholars for distinguished work in the fields of English and modern languages. The winners will receive their awards on December 28, at the organization's annual convention, in Chicago.
Some institutions say Yes, others No, while many let professors decide.
In the battle over remedial education at the City University of New York, those who would raise the bar may unwittingly do more harm than good, writes Nathan Glazer, a professor emeritus of education and sociology at Harvard University, in an Opinion article. Some colleges are using new software that lets students and professors monitor academic progress individually, via the Internet. The Ben-Gurion Archives and Research Center provides scholars and schoolchildren alike with resources on the nation's first Prime Minister, who was a prolific diarist and letter writer. The articles deal with topics such as Holocaust memorials in Germany, the changing nature of monuments on civil rights, the depiction of American Indians in statues, and the public response to the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington. But she sees in the literature about monuments and memory an important continuity as well.