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Focuses on former City University of New York (CUNY) chancellor Ann Reynolds' transition to her position as president of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Tumultuous experience at the CUNY; Lower expectation on self-governance at Birmingham; Success in garnering increased state funding for the university.

Presents brief articles pertaining to higher education in the United States as of January 22, 1999. Retirement plans of John W. Ryan, chancellor of the State University of New York; Ruling stating that the University of California must allow student-government organizations to spend student fees on lobbying efforts; Vote by the trustees of the City University of New York on ending remedial education; More.

The article reports that the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators agreed at its annual meeting in New York this month to a set of recommendations that would do neither and in the process, the group left many financial-aid directors unhappy. On one side were supporters of direct lending, a federal program in which the U.S. Education Department provides loans to students through their colleges, bypassing the banks and guarantee agencies in the competing guaranteed-loan program.

Reports on the plan of MoviebankUSA on opening a 500-square-foot self service video store on West House Street in Manhattan, New York, resembling a bank lobby full of video vending machines. Usability of the vending machines; Products offered by the store; Conception of Stephane de Laforcade, French co-founder of MoviebankUSA, on expanding the stores in New York and the U.S.

Focuses on the 2003 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture in Cooperstown, New York. Attendance at the symposium; Challenges of being a college professor teaching a course on baseball; Issues discussed at the symposium.

Provides information on the Hotel Ezra Cornell event at Cornell University's hotel management school. Preparation made by hotel school students; Mistakes encountered by student chefs; Information on how the preparation for Hotel Ezra Cornell started; Budget for the event.

Discusses the controversy allegedly made the Allen Lee Sessoms, president of Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY), regarding students in remedial classes. Nature of the comment Sessoms is reported to have said in an interview for a report by the city's bar association; CUNY plans to eliminate remediation at its senior colleges; Bar association demand for a retraction.

Presents brief items pertaining to higher education in the United States as of April 30, 1999. Maureen Quilligan to assume the chairmanship of Duke University's English department on January 1, 2000; Suspension of job searches at the English department of the State University of New York at Stony Brook; Request of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that former leaders William Friday, Paul Hardin and William O. McCoy help run the campus while its chancellor undergoes treatment for cancer.

Details the political debate regarding the future of City University of New York (CUNY). How Governor George E. Pataki appointed Herman Badillo as chairman of the CUNY Board of Trustees; Need to hire a chancellor; Search for a candidate; List of possible candidates; Use of standardized test scores; Academic standards.

Looks at the New York State Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's ruling on a disability claim of law-school graduate Marilyn Bartlett against the state Board of Law Examiners, under the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Evaluation of the case; Comments from both sides.

Reports the resignation of R. Byron Pipes from the presidency of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Faculty senate vote of no confidence; His tenure at Rennselaer.

Reports on Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's plan for the privatization of remedial courses now taught by the City University of New York's community colleges. The evisceration of standards; Criticism of the academic quality of the system.

Reports that graduate students in English at the State University of New York at Albany have given up printing their annual literary journal, `The Little Magazine,' and have instead published the journal on CD-ROM and on the World Wide Web. Adding links; Why its format is creating some distribution problems; How the formats have created a broader audience and have reduced the costs associated with operating the magazine.

Reports on the November 1997 resignation of Louis M. Ricci, president of Erie Community College in Buffalo, New York. Accusations that he has improperly spent money from a discretionary fund; Absence of any charges against Ricci; Details of the accusations, Comments from Ricci.

Reports that the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York (CUNY) has approved a plan for its campuses that links new faculty positions with graduation rates and other efficiency standards. Figures for new faculty positions among CUNY's 17 undergraduate institutions; The state's goal for percentage of classes taught by full-time faculty; Comments from Edison O. Jackson, president of CUNY's Medgar Evans College.

Reports on a federal appeals court decision which said that the policy at Hamilton College that requires students to live in campus housing is subject to antitrust laws. How the decision could be a tool for fraternities trying to fight attempts by college officials to close fraternity houses; What the lawsuit involved argues.

Reports on a decision made by a federal judge that a transsexual student who sued New York University claiming she had been sexually harassed by a male professor can proceed with her case. Details of the case; Opinion of the university on the case.