News concerning developments at colleges and universities that affect women is presented, along with an interview with the Executive Director of the Project on the Status and Education of Women, Bernice R. Sandler, regarding the project's major accomplishments and activities over the past 11 years and insights into the changing status of women at all levels of academe. News items include the following issues: court rulings concerning the scope of coverage of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; rulings that the publicly-supported nursing school, Mississippi University for Women, violated the Fourteenth Amendment equal-protection clause of the Constitution by excluding males, and that a tenure vote can not be confidential on grounds of academic freedom; civil rights cases filed and won by university employees; sex discrimination suits filed regarding new eligibility restrictions for Guaranteed Student Loans; a General Accounting Office study regarding the way the Department of Education recruited grant application readers for the Women's Educational Equity Act Program; surveys on salaries of female and male faculty and the nonacademic workforce; alternative work schedules and other employment concerns; rules adopted by colleges regarding sexual harassment; status of minority women students; new womens studies programs and their implications; nontraditional careers for women; and various resource materials. (SW)