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...Tuition rates have risen faster than inflationbecause all of our major expense items--facultysalaries, student financial aid, libraryacquisitions and facility maintenance--have beenrising faster than inflation," said ColumbiaUniversity Provost Jonathan R. Cole
Three crucial university officials--Gray, Provost John M. Deutch and Corporation Chair David S. Saxon, whom Gray will succeed--have agreed to stay in their current jobs as necessary...
...Tech Vice Provost David Goodstein said that a shift of funding priorities for projects in scientific institutions is hoped for. "The prevailing feeling here is a hope that the big spending in large-scale research and development will be shifted from the military to NASA and space research...
...gesture seemed nice: Stanford University would return some 550 ancient remains to the Ohlone Indians. "Indian beliefs hold ancestral remains to be sacred," wrote Stanford provost James Rosse. The result, though, was one nasty academic fight. Bert Gerow, an emeritus professor of anthropology at Stanford and curator of the remains for about 40 years, immediately announced he was the owner of most of them. Thereupon the chairman of Stanford's anthropology department, James Lowell Gibbs Jr., had the locks changed on the collection. The wrangle grew wider as scientists contemplated the loss of the bones, some...
...months Japanese businessmen and educators have quietly offered to bail out several financially strapped schools in return for control of their governing boards. The purpose: to expand study-abroad opportunities for Japanese university students. "The American higher-education system is the best in the world," says Julia Ericksen, vice provost of Philadelphia's Temple University. "The Japanese recognize that...