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The article reports that some instructors ban computers or shut off Internet access,to keep students focused on class. Other professors ask laptop users to sit in the front row, in part so the professors can glance down occasionally to see what is on the students' screens. A few colleges have set up systems that let professors switch off classroom Internet access during some sessions. Many students dislike the restrictions, arguing that multitasking can balance Internet use and classroom participation. Even some professors think that banning laptops is wrong, and that students need to learn for themselves how to juggle online and offline worlds, since students are likely to carry those same laptops into corporate environments in the future. Attempting to use technology to help find a middle ground, officials at Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts set up an on/off switch for Internet access in each classroom. Called the "classroom network control system," it allows professors in many classrooms to choose one of five settings: turn off Internet access but allow e-mail access, turn off e-mail access but allow Internet access, disable Internet and e-mail access but allow computers to reach campus Web pages, shut off all access, or allow all access. A computer at the front of the classroom lets the professor change the settings at any time. INSET: Walling Out Wireless Networks Is No Easy Task.

The article presents the author's view on how power controls sexuality. It reflects that almost all consensual relationships in the campuses are based on the control of teachers over the students. A teacher's role is to provide intellectual guidance and professional support and advice to the students. Such a role is antithetical to that of lover and constitutes an abuse of power and a betrayal of trust. The inevitable power difference between teacher and student, whatever the teacher's intention or motivation, makes it impossible for the student to be a fully consenting adult. There fore what is called romance between professor and student is often rooted in power and control. A survey shows that in every department of a reasonable size, in every college and university, there are colleagues who are having or have had sexual relations with one or more students.

The article presents information on the rights of a university employee in the U.S. in reference to Sherry M.J. Towers, a postdoctoral researcher. After a careful reading of her university's handbook, she calculated that she could take three months off after the birth of her second child, in 2003. But before her daughter was three weeks old, Towers was back in her research office. The source of the problem was her supervisor, John Hobbs, an associate professor of physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She says he instructed her not to tell the campus's human-resources office that she was pregnant. Then he refused to write a letter of recommendation for future faculty jobs unless she returned to work almost immediately after giving birth. INSET: Should I Have a Baby Now, or Wait?.

This article presents information on the conflict between William C. Bradford, associate professor in the School of Law at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, and Florence Wagman Roisman, a professor. Bradford states that Roisman and a handful of other professors are trying to oust him because of his conservative political views. It is informed that Bradford, a Chiricahua Apache Indian, supports the war in Iraq. Roisman alleged that Bradford has violated the university's Code of Academic Ethics by making false and defamatory public statements about them and the promotion and tenure process of the law school.

Focuses on the responsibilities and challenges facing faculty members of the new campus of University of California system in Merced which is scheduled to open in fall 2005. Factors that encouraged the faculty members to accept the job; Potential impact of the plan of the university to develop a new curriculum on faculty members; Issues arising from the lack of specific departments in the university.

Focuses on the postdoctoral fellowship for the Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) curriculum in universities and colleges in the U.S. Practice of freedom of thought and expression in the fellowship according to postdoctoral graduate teachers Phil Ford and Angus Fletcher; Rationale outline for the fellowship of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Uncertainty of Sean McIntyre, an IHUM fellow a Standford German-studies postdoctoral, on the significance of the fellowship to graduates applying for a job. INSET: A Postdoctoral Menagerie.

Reports on charges of grievances filed by students against Oneida J. Morento, a professor at the Metropolitan State College of Denver, Colorado for allegedly promoting liberal bias during her lectures. Career background; Efforts made by students at Metropolitan to promote proposed principles for intellectual diversity during a visit made by conservative activist David Horowitz to the college; Impact of the grievance ordeal faced by Morento.

Focuses on the political implications of the scholarly books "Empire" and "Multitude," by Michael Hardt, associate professor at Duke University in North Carolina, and Italian leftist Antonio Negri. Difference between the books; Conceptualization of multitude in constitutional democracy by Negri; Views of college professors Harry Cleaver and Charlie Bertsch on the authors' concept of multitude.

Focuses on the impression of students toward opinionated professors in higher education. Criticisms against the curriculum in higher education; Effects of the exclusion of curricular content on the dignity of an academy.

Discusses several common principles of how great college teachers conducting classes. Creation of a natural critical learning environment; Importance of getting the students' attention and keeping it; Engagement of students in disciplinary thinking; Commitment of students.

Describes the plight of students and professors at Chechen State University at Grozny, Russia amidst war between federal forces and separatist guerillas in the republic of Chechnya. Experience of Milana, a third-linguistics major student, at federal checkpoints; Remark of history department dean Tamara Elbusdikaeva; Reason behind the heightened demand for a university education; Comment from Bela Tsugeva, a former English instructor at Chechen State.

Looks at post-tenure review program for faculty adopted by the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York that is acceptable to tenured professors. Initial reaction of tenured professors to the program; Compromise reached between the tenured professor and the college administrators; Details on the post-tenure review program; Components of the program that tenured professors say are acceptable to them.

Deals with the accusation of sexual harassment and assault filed by students against professor Jerome A. Cerny. Finding on an internal investigations about Cerny's actions toward the accuser; Memorandum signed by Cerny after an investigation found that he had inappropriately touched student subjects; Information on other complainant of Cerny.

Presents an article on the experiences in writing the book "Flat Broke With Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform." Complicating factors in the study of welfare reform; Primary message heard by women who arrived at Arbodale and Sunbelt City welfare offices; Best way of selling a book.

Focuses on the discrimination and retaliation claims filed by professor Graciela Chichilnisky against Columbia University in New York City. Conflicts encountered by Chichilnisky with her colleagues; Background on the cases; Terms of the settlement signed by the university.

Features Martha Greenblatt, a chemist professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Award received from the American Chemical Society in 2003; Description of her determination and passion for work; Education and family background.

Features Ronald A. Berk, a biostatistics and measurement professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Views on the use humor in teaching; Books written in support of his theory about humor; Rules developed on the use of humor in a classroom; Overview of his educational philosophy.

Features Richard Tapia, professor of applied mathematics at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His views on student diversity; Educational attainment; Information on the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate program headed by Tapia; Family background; Comments from Rice president Malcolm Gillis on the personality of Tapia.

Presents an article on living with AIDS. Impact of AIDS on a college teacher; Prevalence of AIDS in Vietnam; Information on drug users with HIV in Vietnam.

Discusses the lives of college faculty during summer in the U.S. Description of the lives of adjunct instructors and some full-time faculty members who must continue to work; Activities of faculty members aside from teaching; Reasons some faculty members like to teach in summer.

Focuses on the early retirement of several professors at the University of Massachusetts in Amhurst due to the provision of special retirement incentive programs in Massachusetts. Number of tenured professors at the university that retired in June 2002; Background on the retirement incentive programs; Impact of early retierment on curriculum quality and department management.

Discusses the dismissal of Michael Ardis, an assistant professor of criminal justice at Morris College in Sumter, South Carolina. Details of a race-related issue attributed to the dismissal; Personal information on Ardis; Testimonies stated in the lawsuit filed by Ardis against the college.

Features several college teachers who made the transition from the business and political sectors in the U.S. Challenges faced by Bill Ivey, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, turned sociology teacher at Vanderbilt University; Comment from Mickey Edwards, lecturer at Kennedy School and former Republican Congressman from Oklahoma; Problems experienced by James M. Keagle, retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force who joined Central Michigan University.

Features three professors teaching in for-profit institutions in the U.S. Aaron Shatzman, history professor at the University of Phoenix in Phoenix, Arizona; Diane Shephard-Tew, psychology and general-studies professor at the University of Phoenix; Barry Batorsky, humanities instructor at the Devry Inc. campus in North Brunswick, New Jersey.

Reports on the demand of students to ban H. Daniel Cohen, a physics professor, from Indiana University in South Bend, Indiana. Alleged involvement of the professor in a sexual harassment incident; Support shown by the university administration for Cohen; How he alienated his students.

Reports on the financial success of United States university professors in their venture in high technology and Internet industries. Low profile status maintained by wealthy professors inside the campus; Increase in the frequency of leaves; Bilateral relationship with deans and other college officials.

The article reports on the University of Maryland professor Melissa Landa who published the "I" children's book which refers to Israel and as a response after her contract was not renewed by the school's College of Education and claimed that non-renewal was because of her a pro-Israel politics.

The article reports that Aaron Maxwell, Alderson Broaddus University's assistant professor, has appeared in the periodicals "GIScience & Remote Sensing" and "Journal of the American Water Resources."

The article presents information on a study which suggests that adjunct college teachers are excluded from faculty senates in the U.S. The author looks at assistant professors Willis A. Jones, Wayne D. Lewis, and Neal H. Hutchens. The article also discusses the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).

An essay is presented in which the author comments on ways in which blogging has benefited his academic life as a scholar. He queries how blogging should be viewed in terms of its validity and applicability to scholarly discourse, argues that blogging is not an ideal option for all college professors, and examines how technological innovations are influencing higher education and the mission of academics.

Focuses on college teachers in the United States, who are children of academic celebrities. Tendency of their interlocutors to ask their relationship with their famous parent; Advantages of having a famous name; Avoidance of nepotism.

Comments on the signs of an expanding higher education job market for people with doctor of philosophy degrees or Ph.D.'s in the United States. Rise in the job listings for positions in English departments, as reported by the Modern Language Association; Faculty positions advertised in `Job Openings in Economics'; Increase in hiring by state colleges; Rising rates of retirement for professors.

The article offers information on the Scientists Teaching Science (STS) program of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Office of Intramural Training and Education (OITE) in the U.S. It states that the program helped the scientists interested in teaching school students. STS began as a two-hour workshop in the basics of becoming a college teacher at the community college level or higher.

The article presents discussion regarding issues surrounding retirement and department-level management in U.S. colleges and universities. Introductory details are given noting the difficulties which face both college administrators and senior professors when confronting the topic of retirement. Accounts are given profiling several programs at school such as the University of Maryland at College Park, Stanford University of California, and Washington and Lee University of Virginia which have directly addressed the issue. Additional subjects mentioned include the emotional challenges of leaving a life-long position, the economic concerns of retirement regulations, and post-retirement life.

In this article the author discusses educational technology and argues that teachers frequently do not incorporate technology that follows along with their pedagogical goals. He presents examples of ways in which he has implemented projects for his students to use technology that meet his learning goals using resources including the newspaper archives of the Chronicling America program run by the U.S. Library of Congress, the cloud-based note taking and document organization software Evernote, and the online word processing and editing application Google Docs.

The article presents a profile of University of California at Riverside computer science professor Eamonn Keogh. It focuses on his efforts to use a data mining computer technology called Symbolic Aggregate Approximation (SAX) to develop a sensor that will detect malaria-carrying mosquitoes in order to prevent the spread of the disease to humans. It provides a brief history of Keogh's academic life and career as a professor, examines the cost and design of his proposed mosquito sensor, and discusses other data mining projects of Keogh's including one focused on electronic book illustrations and one focused on cell phone cameras.

A personal narrative is presented in which the author discusses the realities, pro and con, of having made the choice to step down from her role as administrative head of her graduate program and concentrate on being a full-time college teacher.

The author discusses opinions about online college courses, noting that many college faculty members seem not to take such courses seriously because they do not occur face to face. He notes that both formats have positive and negative factors and are as good as the people who engage in them. He notes that a great classroom instructor is not automatically a great online instructor because the challenges are different. Organization, course design and best practices are examined.

The author offers etiquette advice for participants in the academic hiring process on both sides. Her suggestions for applicants include giving the same answers to the same questions when asked by different individuals regardless of their position in the department or university hierarchy, leaving one's significant other at home or, if necessary, refraining from overly familiar interactions, and providing appropriate and organized information to people writing reference letters. For faculty interviewers she suggests not asking illegal or unethical questions and knowing what is permissible, assuming the person being interviewed could someday be a colleague, and informing unsuccessful candidates of the outcome rather than assuming they will guess it if they do not hear anything.

The article examines the role of emeritus professors in faculty talent acquisition of colleges and universities despite retirement in the U.S. as of June 10, 2016.

An obituary for Ralph E. Hoffman, a professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, is presented.

In this article the author, an academic search consultant, shares her views on why candidates for open college professorships should not use iPad tablet computers, or similar technologies, during their preliminary interviews. She notes the importance of a candidate making personal connections, such as eye contact, with search committee members and comments that notetaking on iPads can be distracting for both the candidate and the committee members.

The article discusses the five characteristics that successful new community-college faculty members share. The author discusses his experiences as a new faculty member and his observations as a department chairman and academic dean at a community college. It is suggested that newly hired faculty members be humble about how their institution should run. Voluntarism is considered an asset for faculty members as long as it doesn't interfere with the main responsibility of teaching. Time management is essential in order to cope with teaching five courses. Other characteristics include friendliness, and faculty members who are low-maintenance.

The article presents a discussion on the benefits and disadvantages of pursuing a doctoral degree in English. The author argues that spending years as an academic, specifically when you will likely become an educator upon receipt of the degree, can negatively impact your ability to be hired. The article explains that without any practical experience, highly educated individuals may be passed over for those with lower degrees but more work-place experience. The author presents his recommendations for how individuals pursuing doctorates in English can remain competitive in the eyes of a community college and how they can remain relevant to the variety of students they will have.

The article discusses furloughs for college employees. A furlough is unpaid time that must be taken by an employee in order for their employer to cut costs. The author profiles several people that have been furloughed in 2009, including Daniel Childers, a professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, who talks about labor laws and their regulation of furloughs, and Megan Shockley, an associate professor of history at Clemson University, who spreads her furlough across many paychecks.

A personal narrative is presented of the author's memories of the office spaces he has occupied over the course of his career as a professor at Indiana University at Bloomington and the University of California at Berkeley.

The article discusses tips for college professors to ensure that they have a good mentor that will help their career. The author stresses that successful people, institutions, and companies are not always the best sources to explain the reasons for their success. Part of the problem is that teachers in mentorship positions often received tenure decades ago, making any of the strategies they applied to receive tenure useless and outdated today. The author details issues proteges should keep in mind when dealing with mentors.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the experiences of three first-year assistant professors at Northern Illinois University's College of Education.