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Informs that Alabama voters have rejected a proposed state lottery to pay for college scholarships and other education programs. Major blow to Alabama Governor Don Siegelman; Implication for a merit-based college scholarship program; Possible causes of the turn-around in public opinion.

Reports on Wisconsin lawmakers' approval of a plan to increase financial support for the University of Wisconsin at Madison through a combination of state funds and private money. Sources of the funds; Allocation of the 1999-2001 budget which Governor Tommy Thompson is expected to sign; Funds to freeze in-state tuition.

Reports on regulatory developments of relevance to education in the United States, as of September 17, 1999. Includes United States Environmental Protection Agency's expansion of inquiries into campus pollution; Presidential aspirant George W. Bush's plans to reform the education system if elected to office; Government plans to collect unpaid student loans.

Reports that Texas Attorney General John Cornyn has rescinded his predecessor's 1997 legal opinion that prevented state colleges from offering race-exclusive scholarships. Court ruling on the use of affirmative action by colleges in admissions; State lawmakers' views on Cornyn's opinion.

Notes news briefs relating to education and states in the United States for the summer of 1999. The ruling of a US Superior Court that Congress can limit immunity protection offered by the 11th Amendment in regard to a sexual harassment suit filed against George Mason University; The decision of the Florida Board of Regents to spend funds on new scholarships and minority programs rather than open two new public law schools; The plan of Michigan to spend its share of a tobacco settlement on biotechnology.

Reports that North Carolina legislators could not reach a financial deal for construction and renovation projects at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and the state's community colleges. Issues of conflict; Comment from Molly Corbett Broad, president of the UNC system; Options for the university system.

Reports that lobbyists from testing services and higher-education lobbying associations have asked the United States Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to revise its draft guidelines on college use of standardized tests like the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Reasons for guidelines, including possible discrimination against minorities; Claims that the guidelines should deal with how colleges use tests, not the tests themselves; Charges that the guidelines are unclear.

Presents news briefs related to legal issues in universities and colleges for July 1999. Ruling by the Pennsylvania state Supreme Court that Hershey Medical Center of Pennsylvania State University owes millions of dollars in back taxes; Finding that university is not a state agency; Ruling by Michigan state Supreme Court on openly public presidential searches concerning a case at Michigan State University.

Comments on a measure approved by the Kansas state House of Representatives to expand the power of a university board over all institutions in the state. Plan to appoint a Board of Regents on July 1, 1999; Duties of the nine-member board; The bill to retain local governing boards at the state's community colleges and Washburn University of Topeka, a municipally operated institution; Expected cost over four years.

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.

Reports that college officials are concerned whether Florida's Bright Futures Scholarships is a worthwhile investment. Results of a state analysis of student records; Cost of the program; Alleged proof that the program was not achieving its aim.

Discusses four articles dealing with legal rulings in United States federal appeals courts as of March 1999. Rejection of a claim by a group of University of Oregon students that their constitutional rights were violated by the school; Rejection of a claim against the University of California at Davis medical school for wrongful dismissal of a student; Others.

Offers news briefs on issues relating to United States colleges and universities. Removal of Texas Southern University President James M. Douglas by the Board of Regents in Houston after extending his contract for two years; Reaction from University of Connecticut professors to a proposal by Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland that they teach one more course per year.

Profiles Sally T. Boysen, who runs the center at Ohio State University that studies the cognitive skills of chimpanzees. Her research on the barking of the chimpanzees; How she is to be featured on the Public Broadcasting Service series `Scientific American Frontiers.'

Offers news briefs related to higher education in the United States as of November 19, 1999. Promise from Vermont Governor Howard Dean for a budget increase for public colleges; Request from Dean L. Hubbard, president of Northwest Missouri State University, that school administrators attend a fundraising event for Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan; Protest from John Mark Huckabee, son of Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, against a University of Arkansas policy that limits political activity on campus.

Presents news briefs related to universities and colleges in the United States as of August 13, 1999. Ruling by Virginia court that the Commonwealth of Virginia cannot approve a tax-exempt bond issue for Regent University, founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson; Rejection of a bill for minority preferences by the governor of California Gray Davis; Financial problems at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Offers news briefs having to do with higher education. How the University of California Board of Regents was accused of violating the state's open-meeting law in deciding to restrict affirmative action; How the Texas Legislature has approved a constitutional amendment that could increase the funds that the University of Texas receives; How teacher-education students get higher scores on the Praxis II test for teacher licensure than do people who have never enrolled in a teacher-training program; Others.

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.

Reports on the University of Phoenix's retraction of its request for a license to operate in New Jersey. Opposition from many public and private colleges in the state; Concerns on the university's library resources and number of full-time faculty members.

Reports that students rallied to support affirmative-action programs at various universities in 1998. Low turnout for the event titled `National Days of Action to Defend Affirmative Action'; Largest rally held at the University of California at Berkeley; Comments from Bob Jensen, professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

States that a federal jury has found former chancellor of Indian University at South Bend Daniel Cohen liable for sexually harassing a female employee. Compensation awarded to Lynn Fall; Her previous complaints of sexual harassment; The universities alleged failure to take action; Comments of Dorothy Frapwell, Indian University's counsel; Cohen's resignation coming one day after Fall's indication she would file a lawsuit.

Focuses on the spending bills for education which were approved by members of the United States Congress for fiscal 1999. The National Science Foundation and the AmeriCorps national-service program to receive funding; President Bill Clinton's veto of an agriculture bill; Congress as yet to complete action on an omnibus bill; Details of the compromise bill which was passed by both houses of Congress in October, 1998.

Presents information on the case against Representative Thad McClammy over his mismanagement of funds while president of Trenholm State Technical College in Alabama. Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor filing the suit; Charges that McClammy failed to use competitive-bidding guidelines to choose a contractor for a college construction project; Case settled with payment to come from McClammy .

Reports on the resignation of Niara Sudarkasa, president of Lincoln University, after a state audit uncovered a pattern of mismanagement and waste at the Pennsylvania institution. Severance pay asked by Sudarkasa in exchange for her resignation; Comments from her; Findings of the audit.

Reports a South Dakota state supreme court ruling that fraternities and sororities at the University of South Dakota are not exempt from paying local property taxes. Details of the unanimous decision; Comments from Jerome B. Lammers, lawyer for the fraternities and sororities.

Reports that a compromise worked out by members of Congress in July, 1998 would raise the cap on the annual number of temporary visas available to foreigners to work in the United States. The bill as also providing some college aid for low-income students; An effort to train American workers to do the jobs that the country now depends on foreigners to do; Details of the bill; Details of the 1990 immigration law.

Presents state news about higher education in the United States as of July 10, 1998. Lawsuit filed by five two-year colleges in Wyoming in June 1998 charging that the community-college commission had favored the state's other two community colleges in distributions for salary increases; Setback in Texas A&M's hope of adding a law program, when a panel of the states's Higher Education Coordinating Board said Texas does not need a fifth public law school.

Focuses on a variety of topics pertaining to education. How the National Science Foundation will pay $95,400 to settle a lawsuit filed by Travis Kidd, a white graduate student at Clemson University who claimed racial discrimination in the school's Minority Graduate Research Fellowship Program; President Bill Clinton's nomination of Jane E. Henney, a University of New Mexico cancer specialist, for the position of commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

Reports on a ruling by a federal judge that Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, is not required to allow learning-disabled students to substitute other courses to fulfill a foreign-language requirement. Details of the ruling by Judge Patti B. Saris; Appeal of the ruling as unlikely; Comments of Jon Westling, president of Boston University.

Presents two brief articles relating to the business aspects of education. The decision of British publisher Pearson P.L.C. to buy Simon & Schuster's educational publishing division; The merger of Saint Francis College and the Lutheran College of Health Professions.

Reports that Cybernetics and Systems Inc. pleaded guilty to one charge of defrauding the government in 1998. Cybernetics as a student-loan collection agency; Details of the company's fraudulent methods.

Reports that in May 1998, the University of Wisconsin's Board of Regents approved a plan that aims to increase the system's diversity by 2008 by widening the pool of qualified minority applicants from the state's secondary schools. Details of so-called plan 2008; Criticism regarding the plan.

Reports opposition to a plan by United States Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico that would introduce an amendment to legislation extending the Higher Education Act. Details on the amendment that would strip federal student aid funds from programs that fail to produce a sufficient proportion of students who can pass state teacher-licensing exams; Assertion by Bingaman that without accountability measures, education programs would continue to turn out unqualified teachers.

Reports athletic notes from United States colleges and universities. Unanimous vote by presidents of the New England Small College Athletic Conference to allow its championship teams, other than football, to participate in postseason play; Arrest of University of New Mexico football player, Kawika Ordenstein, for attempted murder; Additional penalties for the University of California at Los Angeles from the National Collegiate Athletic Association for infractions in its men's basketball program.

Reports that Albertus Magnus College has abandoned its tri-semester calendar. Lack of student interest in the plan which would allow them to earn a degree in three years; Number of students who took advantage of the program.

Reports that the number of historically black universities whose students and graduates have defaulted on federal student loans at consistently high rates dropped between 1992 and 1997. Report from the United States' General Accounting Office; Details.

Notes that scientists at Springfield College, in Massachusetts, announced discovery of a faster method for detecting lethal strains of E. coli and salmonella bacteria. How the test works; Identification of the researchers; The method's receipt of a United States patent.

Focuses on a Massachusetts court ruling requiring the New England School of Law in Massachusetts to reinstall a large bronze plaque honoring a donor who sued the school after its removal. Details of the disagreement between the school and the donor, Martin S. Berman, a lawyer and real-estate developer who agreed to raise funds for the school in 1981.

States that the `St. Petersburg Times' has frozen payment of a $1-million gift to the University of South Florida after the university had failed to solicit bids on promotional contracts it had signed with a rival newspaper, the Tampa Tribune. The argument of the St. Petersburg newspaper that as a state university, South Florida must follow laws that require competitive bidding for contracts of more than $15,000; Comments of university officials; Promotional opportunities of the university's newly formed Division II football program.

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

Focuses on the point-shaving scandal involving the men's basketball team at Northwestern University in Illinois. President Henry Bienen's claim that the university was vigilant; Details of the charges against two former members of the Wildcats; Other indictments that resulted from the federal investigation.

Reports that two University of Wyoming employees are immune from a lawsuit over the suicide of a student in 1993. Details of the suit; Identity of the two employees; Excerpt from the ruling.

Reports the Lilly Endowment, the wealthiest foundation in the United States, will give millions of dollars to Indiana colleges and to the College Fund/UNCF. The amount of money to be given to Indiana institutions; How the money will be used.

Reports that a federal judge in Texas has refused to award damages to the white plaintiffs in an affirmative-action lawsuit filed against the University of Texas. The determination that the plaintiffs would not have been admitted to the University of Texas law school even if it had used a race-neutral admission process; Details of the decision in the trial known as Hopwood v. Texas.

Reports the March 1998 ruling of a federal appeals court that Michael Brennan, a former professor at Northeastern University who had been denied tenure, could file a discrimination lawsuit without first taking his case before a campus arbitration panel. The court's failure to rule on the merits of his claim; Details of Brennan's case; Comments from a Northeastern spokesperson.

Reports that a federal jury in Ohio awarded $122,000 in damages in March of 1998 to John K. Hartman, a journalism professor. Hartman's claim that he had been denied a teaching position at Bowling Green Sate University because he is white; How the department hired Debbie Owens, a black woman who Hartman said was less experienced; How Hartman was able to support his claim; The school's reaction to the case.

Focuses on the efforts of victims of campus crime and their families to convince a Senate panel to pass a bill that would require colleges to report on more types of crime on their campuses. Conviction of college officials that the proposed law would do little to reduce crime on campuses; Testimony from crime victims.

Reports that a Maryland lawmaker who won an insurance contract for his business from the University of Maryland System resigned in February, 1998, amid an investigation into his business dealings. Delegate Gerald Curran's insistence that he had done nothing improper; Details of his deal.

Reports that in early March 1998 Saint Louis University Hospital was sold for $300-million to Tenet Healthcare Corporation, after the Vatican approved the deal. Reasons why some opposed the sale; Effort of the Society of Jesus; Details of the agreement regarding the sale.

Reports that Bruce A. Van Orden, a professor of church history at Brigham Young University admitted, in 1998, to plagiarizing significant portions of one of his books. How the plagiarism was noticed; Reasons given by Van Orden as to how the plagiarism occurred.