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The American Anthropological Association has recommended that the U.S. Census stop collecting statistics based on race.
The association said that the concept of race was based on pseudo-science, not science. "Biological-sounding terms add nothing to the precision, rigor, or factual basis of information being collected to characterize the identities of the American population," said a statement released by the association.

Alex Malahoff, president of the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly, has been elected the chair of UH-Manoa Faculty Senate.
Malahoff, an oceanography professor, becomes the first person to hold both positions simultaneously. He wants the faculty senate to increase personal participation of faculty members in recruiting students from Hawaii s public high schools to attend the university.

A new Carnegie report says teaching and service by professors should be evaluated by the same standards that are used to judge research.
Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate is a sequel to the influential 1990 Carnegie report, Scholarship Reconsidered.
The report is available from Jossey-Bass, Inc. at 888-378-2537.

France has adopted a budget for 1998 that increases spending on higher education by 3.05 percent.
The government held overall national expenditures to a level just under the inflation rate of 1.4 percent. Education escaped deep spending cuts because of growing concern that France must remain internationally competitive, particularly in scientific research.