November 10, 1994: Vol26n10: The Chronicle in Cyberspace

The Chronicle in Cyberspace
For those of you who do not subscribe to The Chronicle of Higher
Education you might be interested in their Internet publication
Academe This Week (ATW). Though not the full text of The Chronicle,
ATW, which is published every Tuesday at noon, presents summaries of
its articles, deadlines for fellowships, grants, institutes and
workshops, notification of upcoming academic meetings, and a listing
of best-selling books in college bookstores.
   ATW also provides you with the opportunity to look up position
openings worldwide both in and out of academe. You are given the
choice to search the listings by category such as "faculty and
research positions" or you can put in your own search word. For
example, by entering the word "dean" in the Nov. 2 ATW one obtains 149
job listings.
	For those who want facts and statistics related to higher
education at their fingertips ATW offers "Facts and Figures on U.S.
Higher Education." Based on the "Almanac Issue" of The Chronicle, this
section presents general U.S. demographics, numbers of colleges and
universities by type, faculty salaries, student enrollment data, and
educational funding statistics. The source of each statistic is given
at the end of each category.
	The Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting Project,
which has been supporting programs that use telecommunications to
improve the quality and accessibility of higher education since 1981,
contributes its own menu of information to ATW. Menu items include
grant program updates, information on the American Cinema series
(complete with the opportunity to enter a movie trivia contest), a
listing of educational videodisks and cd-roms, and a description of
the "New Pathways to a Degree Program."
	To read ATW, type wings at your campus E-mail account system
prompt, then select "Faculty and Staff Information," then "Academe,
The Chronicle of Higher Education." Those who want to gopher directly
to ATW can use the following address <chronicle.merit.edu>.
 -- Gemma DeVinney and Loss Peque