The National Collegiate Athletic Association's proposed reductions in scholarships, affecting most non-revenue sports but sparing big-time football, are widely criticized for their disproportionate effects on women and minority groups. (MSE)

Two-year colleges are trying to change legislators' perceptions about their institutions, demanding increased state support, and working together to lobby as a state system rather than as individual institutions. (MSE)

With aggressive development and marketing, the University of Texas now has top-ranked women's athletic teams and an admirable academic record among its athletes. (MSE)

The creation of a postgraduate University of Europe, to be based in Paris but linking new courses offered by a consortium of existing universities in several countries, is being proposed by a group of French faculty members and administrators. (MLW)

A New York University "magnet" program supported by the Ford Foundation provides opportunities for 11 member institutions' faculty members to pursue research, curricular, and professional projects. (MSE)

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Board of Directors has decided not to re-examine a rule limiting the committees on which the Division I-A football conferences are entitled to hold a majority. Critics of the rule saw inequities in committee membership that would cause major teams to be governed by decisions of members…

Describes how educators on both sides of the admissions process are devising ways to motivate high school seniors after they have been accepted by colleges. (EV)

Describes how college librarians are working with professors and some courseware companies to add research aids to course Web sites. (EV)

An American Association of University Professors committee feels faculty have too often been idle as standards have been abused and rules bent or broken by campus administrators, coaches, or sports officials, and have done little to combat the trend stressing money and winning at the expense of academic integrity. (MSE)

Japanese universities are encouraging their students to study in the United States. Tokyo International University's campus in Oregon has links to Willamette University. The goal is to form a kind of global university with students spending three years overseas, and then completing their degrees in Tokyo. (MLW)

In the five years that Boston University (Massachusetts) has administered the Chelsea School System, many positive changes have occurred. The university sees the program as a model for revitalizing deteriorating urban schools and calls on faculty and students from most divisions to help. Critics feel the effort is insufficient. (MSE)

Expatriates from India now living in the U.S. seek to establish a business school in their homeland that will hold its own in the global marketplace. (JM)

Discusses how professional schools, faced with a shortage of students and an increased demand for cross-disciplinary training, are teaming up to offer joint degrees. Examples include joint medical and business degrees, joint social work and law degrees, and joint medical and law degrees. (EV)

The United Negro College Fund faces questions about the quality of its institutions and questions from some of its own presidents about how well it represents their interests. The Fund now helps its members improve their management, get more federal aid, build their endowments, recruit students, and gain reaccreditation. (MLW)

A joint project of a United Auto Workers local and Hofstra University provides a liberal arts baccalaureate program for working-class adults, a broader based education than traditional vocational training programs, and trains union leaders. (MSE)