IN HIS INAUGURATION SPEECH on Friday, the new president of the University of Utah sharply warned the state's Governor and other dignitaries that no on-line curriculum could ever offer the kind of education his university provides, and that investing in distance-education technology would not decrease the demand for spending on traditional campus needs.
--"Academe Today"
Chronicle of Higher Education
September 28, 1998
[located on page 1 of print MP]

COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES must make teacher education a much higher priority in order to meet an urgent demand for more and better teachers during the coming decade, according to a report released this week by the U.S. Department of Education.
--"Academe Today"
Chronicle of Higher Education
September 17, 1998
[located on page 9 of print MP]

HYPERTEXT FICTION, a new genre of electronic texts, is being taught at more than 50 colleges, but skeptics ask whether it is truly literature or just a postmodern fad. --"Academe Today"
Chronicle of Higher Education
September 28, 1998
[located on page 29 of print MP]

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