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Vaughn, Brandy Elise Robinson – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The researcher proposed to determine the expansiveness of Louisiana's public school districts' anti-bullying policies. Specifically, student codes of conduct and board polices were analyzed to determine the extent to which schools define, outline reporting procedures, keep written records of, investigate, and render disciplinary sanctions against…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Board of Education Policy, Bullying, Aggression
Beasley, Eric Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In the fall of 2009, Michigan State University (MSU) implemented a new policy regarding reports of undergraduate academic dishonesty. Under the new system, instructors are required to submit an academic dishonesty report for any student that they penalize for violations of academic integrity, and these students are placed into a remediation class…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Deception, Cheating, Ethics
Fitzpatrick, Raashad – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The study under investigation was the impact of early literacy and behavior sanctions on Black male matriculation towards graduation in a selected South Carolina school district. Attendance and course failure in English strongly predicted whether or not students graduated from high school. Early literacy is the foundation for academic success in…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Emergent Literacy, African American Students, Males
Braddix, D'Andre Cortez – ProQuest LLC, 2012
As adult students constitute nearly half of all undergraduates in the United States, college practitioners need to identify effective disciplinary strategies for this population when violations of institutional rules and regulations occur. The purpose of this quasi-experimental, action research study was to modify the student conduct process for…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Quasiexperimental Design, Action Research, College Faculty
Adams, Michael W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study focused on the perceived ethics of the decisions superintendents make in response to a situation with a teacher that was value-laden, potentially volatile, and potentially affected by the teachers' gender or ethnicity. Superintendents (N = 123) each read one of 12 versions of a vignette depicting a sexting incident between a…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Ethics, Sanctions
Moriarty, Margaret E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This mixed-methods study was designed to determine how principals perceived the ethicality of sanctions for students engaged in sexting behavior relative to the race/ethnicity and gender of the student. Personality traits of the principals were surveyed to determine if Openness and/or Conscientiousness would predict principal response. Sexting is…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Ethics
Meagher, Peter J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The focus of this dissertation was the use of restorative justice practices in the collegiate setting. Some have expressed concern with the legal nature of campus conduct processes. Restorative practices have been implemented in criminal justice and K-12 settings and are seen by some as an antidote to overly legalistic campus conduct processes.…
Descriptors: Sanctions, Justice, Student Development, College Students
Karin M. Asher – ProQuest LLC, 2008
This study determined the recidivism rates associated with six educational sanctions assigned after undergraduate students were found responsible for a violation of a residence hall alcohol policy at a large urban research institution. The educational sanctions selected for the study included: Personal Education, Assistance, and Referral program…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Drinking, Recidivism, Alcohol Education
Lucas, Christopher M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
For educators in the field of higher education and judicial affairs, issues are growing. Campus adjudicators must somehow maximize every opportunity for student education and development in the context of declining resources and increasing expectations of public accountability. Numbers of student misconduct cases, including matters of violence and…
Descriptors: Sanctions, Student Attitudes, Safety, Court Litigation