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Some of you might be interested in skimming the following:


Top Story of the September 22, 1995, issue of "The Chronicle of Higher
 Education."

	o ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF DOCTORAL PROGRAMS
	  The National Research Council released last week its first new
	  ranking of the programs since 1982. In 11 pages of coverage, The
	  Chronicle provides a list of 3,634 ranked programs at 274
	  universities and analyzes in depth this long-awaited, influential
	  study.


For those curious about it, Univ. of Nevada, Reno ranks as # 62 (of 100) in
Geosciences...

Sergio Chavez