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The author offers observation on the state of undergraduate education in the U.S. He reveals the complaints from both graduates and employers about bachelor's degree program. He mentions the remarks from Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California, about the college's curriculum, and increase in the number of academic majors, according to the U.S. Education Department.

The article provides information related to higher education in the United States. The article presents a state-by-state view of the funding, governance, and educational news related to higher education. Among the information presented are statistics related to the educational attainment of students in each state; number and type of colleges; college enrollment figures; and the average pay for full-time professors.

Reports on the increasing number of teachers in the United States who use classroom Web logs in teaching. Features of Web logs; Advantages presented by Web logs to teachers and students; Common criticism against the use of Web logs in classroom education.

Reports that researchers at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, are investigating whether they can speed up the tracking of disease-carrying mosquitoes by sharing their expertise with the general public through G.P.S. receivers. Difficulty of pinpointing the location of a West Nile virus outbreak in the United States; Researchers' plan to test the wireless mosquito identification system in the fall of 2004; Drawbacks of using wearable computers for such a purpose.

Focuses on the efforts to solve the deficit facing the HOPE Scholarship, the merit-scholarship program of Georgia as of November 2003. Implication of the decision of the legislators to make modifications in the program that added thousands of students to the scholarship rolls; Discussion on the plan to add a minimum scholastic aptitude test requirement to the B-average standard of the program; Significance of the scholarship program.

Deals with the strong support of the U.S. public for the state of higher education in the country as of May 2003, according to a public opinion poll by the periodical 'The Chronicle.' Aspects of higher education questioned by the respondents; Focus and priorities of higher education recommended; Concerns on academic research.

Presents an outlook for higher education in the United States state legislatures for fiscal year 2002-03. Budget request by each state; Issues challenging state budgets.

Presents information on the debates about the elimination of the scholastic aptitude test (SAT) for entry into universities in the United States. Criticisms on the SAT; Study sponsored by the Association of American Universities on the creation of a database of state tests; Evidence of racial preference in college admission procedures in the country.

Looks at how colleges in Midwest and Southwest States coped with financial shortfalls and midyear budget cuts during the years 2000-01. Colleges affected and their strategies being considered; Views of higher education policy analysts on the situation; Terms under the budget for fiscal 2002.

Offers information and predictions for higher education in the 50 state Legislatures. Dates of session and budget requests for each state; Prediction that Alabama colleges will not receive the funding increases they requested; Suggestion that a budget surplus in Arizona may affect the willingness of legislators to increase funding; Others.

The author reflects on ways for college administrators to help end the classification of colleges in the U.S. Topics discussed include the need to end these categories of colleges, the encouragement from Carnegie to other colleges to copy each other's structure and policies to maneuver into higher categories, the impact of the COVID-19 on college enrollment and finances, and a way for colleges to obtain flexibility in delivering education.

Presents a detailed look at budget requests and key issues that United States states will be dealing with for higher education in 1999. Lobbying efforts by college officials to obtain protection against tighter state budgets; How lobbyists are characterizing their requests; How the success of Georgia's HOPE scholarship programs is affecting efforts in Southern state.

The article focuses on the findings of a survey conducted through The Chronicle/Gallup Panel that a plurality of U.S. people favor presidential candidate Barack Obama to tackle college costs. Based on the survey, 42 percent of the respondents think that controlling college costs is extremely important for the next president to address. On the question of which candidate would do more to help families pay for college, Obama maintains a 13-point advantage, 32 percent to 19 percent, over presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Robert C. Lockwood, a partner in the Gallup Organization, claims that more than half of the respondents think that the U.S. government should have a role in controlling tuition.

The article discusses the report on higher education accreditation delivered to the U.S. secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, by the Commission on the Future of Higher Education and subsequent changes proposed by Spellings. She wants accreditation forms to ask colleges more specific questions about how and what students are learning and to find more accurate ways of measuring learning. Spellings has called for a meeting with accreditors to discuss the issue. Many accreditors are concerned that her methods for measuring student learning may be too simplistic. They also fear that the federal government may impose standards to directly control the accrediting industry.

The article reports that accreditors and some college groups in the U.S. are aghast at a proposal to eliminate regional accreditors and replace them with a national accreditation body. The proposal is contained in a discussion paper released late last month by the secretary of education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education. The news came just as the chairman of the commission allayed another concern of college officials by publicly promising that a mandatory test of college students would not be among the panel's final recommendations.

Discusses the issues surrounding the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to permit the use of affirmative action in college admissions in 2003. Significance of the decision to universities; Reaction of several organizations to the decision; Decline in the enrollment of Michigan State University .

Highlights the Republican agenda on higher-education policy in the U.S. with the re-election of President George W. Bush in 2004. Reaction of the student-loan industry to the possibility that presidential candidate John Kerry would win in the elections; Information on the academic bill of rights proposed by David Horowitz, president of the California-based Center for the Study of Popular Culture; Role of social issues in science policy.

Reports on the protest against Chief Illiniwek as mascot of University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Impact of the issue on the educational effectiveness of the university; Popularity of the mascot; Opposition of cell and structural biology professor Stephen J. Kaufman to the depiction of the Chief as a mascot; Arguments in favor of the use of the mascot. INSET: Long Island U. Settles With EPA Over Hazardous Waste.

Presents the results of a survey conducted by "The Chronicle of Higher Education" on the confidence of U.S. citizens in higher education. Percentage of respondents who affirmed the value of higher-education institutions to the country; Need for college officials to stop being arrogant in answering the legitimate concerns of the public; Challenges that go into running a campus.

Reports on the plan of Massachusetts' governor Mitt Romney to eliminate the post of University of Massachusetts system president as part of a reorganization effort, as of April 2003. Reaction from University of Massachusetts system president William M. Bulger; Debates drawn by the proposal; Details on Romney's reorganization plan.

Discusses the state of public colleges and public higher education in the U.S. as of February 28, 2003. Effect of the economic condition of the country on public colleges; Impact of tax cuts on public colleges; Information on several proposals to improve the condition of public colleges and public higher education.

Focuses on California Governor Gray Davis and his views on higher education. Determination of the governor to make higher education a solution to the state's budget problem; Comments from the state's college teachers leaders in who Governor Davis confers with on higher education; Information on Davis.

Focuses on the seminar-style cross-disciplinary classes that honors students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania take. Reason regional state colleges start honors programs; Implications of the growth of honors programs at state colleges; Background on the Indiana University.

Focuses on the efforts of campuses across the U.S. to deal with budget deficits. Budgetary problems facing universities; Influence of budget cuts on tuition fee; Outlook on the budget deficit for 2002 to 2003; Significance of sales tax to budget allocation.

Profiles Graham B. Spanier, president of Pennyslvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania. Personal background; His popularity among students; His share of controversy. INSET: Graham B. Spanier..

Discusses the plan to fix a major flaw in the merit scholarship in Georgia. Proposed solution to the problem; Delivery of state financial aid to students pioneered by Georgia in 1993; Complaints of college officials and lawmakers on the merit programs; Significance of merit scholarships in terms of student retention.

Discusses the challenges facing state colleges in the United States. Nevada's vision for its state college at Henderson; Expanded offerings of Massachusetts' Fitchburg State College; Why expansion, including the offering of graduate degrees, was necessary; Comments from Frank Newman, a former president of the Education Commission of the States.

Focuses on Texas Governor George W. Bush and his mixed record on higher education in Texas. His support for the ten percent law, which allows the top ten percent of high school students to be admitted into state colleges; Civil rights debates about college education in Texas; Budget battles; Impact of his stance on higher education on his presidential campaign.

Reports on the problems at the University of North Carolina system that are alleged results of shortsighted policies by officials and lawmakers. Budget; Difficulties of serving increasing number of students; Controversial proposals to prevent decline of the public university. INSETS: Ability to pay?;How a student trustee handled the tense debate on tuition..

Focuses on the debate by officials of Texas Tech University in Lubbock and Texas' University of Houston's main campus over whether to build more research facilities or improve existing ones. How the Chancellor of the Board of Regents, William H. Cunningham, backed a proposal to receive more state financing on the condition that two other universities receive funding first; Arguments for and against adding a tier one research institute to increase school ranking.

Focuses on the efforts of colleges outside Texas to recruit minority high school students from Texas. Background on the 1996 Hopwood vs. Texas decision which banned the use of affirmative action by Texas institutions; Financial aid as a persuasion tactic offered by recruiters; Attempts by counselors to dissuade minority students from attending out-of-state schools.

Focuses on the debate of whether to create a lottery in Alabama that would pay for a scholarship program and could make community colleges free. Issues facing the Governor Don Siegelman; Uncertainty of the effect of lottery on college access in Alabama; Demands of community colleges, four-year public institutions, private colleges, and college leaders; Copy of Georgia's HOPE scholarship program; Critics of the lottery program; Outlook.

Profiles Charles B. Reed, chancellor of the California State University System. Suggestion of year-round classes; Picketing and lack of support; How he keeps the campus presidents running well; Other academic proposals; Resistance; Career highlights. INSET: Charles B. Reed.

Comments on the state of Louisiana's merit scholarship program as of April 16, 1999. Potential state-budget deficit a threat to the program; Comments of the state's Commissioner of Higher Education, E. Joseph Savoie; Similar programs in other states; Rising popularity of the programs; Underestimation of the cost of setting low academic standards for the awards. INSET: Copying Georgia's HOPE: States That Are Weighing....

Reports on how technical colleges in the United States are experiencing a transformation during the late 1990s. Efforts of states such as Indiana and Kentucky to combine technical and liberal arts colleges; Details of changes to be made at Elizabethtown Technical College in Elizabethtown, Kentucky; Concerns educators have regarding the future of technical colleges as a separate entity in the educational system of the US.

Presents news briefs from individual states in the United States relating to higher education for December 11, 1998. Agreement of Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education to reject proposals to close or relocate Peru State College; Rejection by voters of a ballot measure to operate a prepayment tuition program in Oregon; A report by the Institute for Higher Education Policy finding that remedial classes are cost-effective; Other news.

States that in 1998 Arizona's University of Phoenix applied for a license from the Commission on Higher Education in New Jersey to operate a campus in the state. Challenges facing the university; Its expansion over the last 22 years; The public debate over the application; The university's hiring of lobbyist Bill Palatucci; Other states where the university is seeking to operate.

Focuses on the impact of United States President Bill Clinton's legislation that created the AmeriCorps, a national-service education program in 1993. Number of AmeriCorps members who have earned education awards from the program; Other statistics on program participants; Comments on the program.

Focuses on the competition for students expected by small regional colleges from distance-education technology. Distance-education programs that are less expensive and more convenient; Diplomas that are offered from better-known universities; The fact that small regional colleges lack endowments and are dependent on tuition income; Continuing education courses as a lucrative source for small regional colleges.

Focuses on the controversy surrounding California University of Pennsylvania President Angelo Armenti's aggressive approach to eradicating sexual harasssment on campus. Claim of critics that he has fired professors based on unsupported student complaints and used his stated objective to get rid of detractors and long-term employees; Armenti's view; Position of the faculty union leaders; Armenti's use of private investigators; Details of specific

The article report on the rise in demand of apprenticeship programs in the U.S. to address issues of skilled labor shortage. It presents views of Andy Winnett, director of agricultural program at the Walla Walla Community College in Washington, D.C. It also reflects on the struggle faced by power generation and distribution firm Siemens Energy to find qualified workers for a gas turbine production plant in Charlotte, North Carolina.