They're Talking On Campus.

. . . About this year's winners of the Professor of the Year awards: Commander Vincent Wilczynski, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut; Clarence Romero, an associate professor of psychology at Riverside Community College in Riverside, California—a member of NEA and the California Community College Association; Laura D. Kaplan, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; and Cornelius Carter, an associate professor of dance at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.

The awards are given by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. More on the awards, including a list of the winners from each state at: www.case.org/awards/poy/default.cfm.

. . . About bad news from the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University. The Institute predicts that students graduating in 2002 can expect a 6-percent to 13-percent contraction in the labor market for new college graduates.

Graduates with advanced degrees will be even worse off, according to the Institute report, with job opportunities for new masters and doctorate recipients down 20 percent, according to the survey.

Hardest hit will be the technical fields, with engineering down 10 percent, and computer-science jobs down 17 percent.