A Bright Future for Russian Higher Education
Students who demand post-Soviet honesty from their teachers, a more open society inching towards all-out capitalism, a new economy struggling to compete in global markets: surrounded by so much change, how will the new Russia’s institutions of higher education reinvent themselves? In many cases, the process has already begun.

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Academic Freedom in the Former Soviet Union

Between the Lions Rates a Roar of Approval
Can a children’s television show set in a library and starring a family of literate lions help kids learn to read? Researchers think so, as does the TV Critics Association, but more importantly, so do the young children who have made Between the Lions one of the most popular new programs on public TV.

Liberal Arts for a New Millennium
There was a time when having a liberal arts degree meant you were probably headed for a career in academia or maybe the sciences. But today, could studying the liberal arts be the best preparation for becoming a techno warrior?

Overturning Buckley
The late Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., helped author a landmark 1976 Supreme Court decision that struck down all limits on spending for political campaigns. In an ironic twist, the law center that bears his name is spearheading the effort to have the ruling overturned.

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Democracy for Everyone

Narciso Matos: An Interview
He was born into Mozambique’s segregated society and helped shepherd its universities through both his country’s independence and its struggle to move from Marxism to democracy. Now the former secretary general of the Association of African Universities has joined Carnegie Corporation as a senior program officer with a mandate to shape the foundation’s new program in African higher education.

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Partnership to Strengthen African Universities

Foundation Roundup
From a study of racial disparity in the juvenile justice system to an innovative program for funding the arts, foundations around the United States continue to support social change in the community, the country and the world.

Lessons of the Cold War: William J. Perry’s Perspective
William J. Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, is often thought of as the chief architect of this country’s stealth technology and smart weapons. What does he think about recent proposals to develop a national missile defense system? Maybe not what you’d expect.