Since 1965, there has been a growing incidence of student protests and campus disorder. Some difficulties stem from mistaken notions of the functions and purposes of a university, one of which is that a university is an arena in which members of the academic community line up as adversaries. Maintenance of the status quo is not the answer, for…

Opinions about due process as it applies to the contemporary college campus range from the extreme view that due process as defined and practiced in U.S. courts of criminal law should be followed on college campuses to the opposite extreme that an educational community must evolve its own "due process" in light of campus objectives and…

This monograph is an update, revision, and extension of an earlier publication entitled: The Legal Aspects of Student Discipline in Higher Education (see ED 036 246). This report includes the new rulings that have been handed down since the publication of the earlier version, and some additional sections. Discussed in this report are: (1) the…

This topical paper summarizes the variety of responses made by individual junior college presidents to the demands (position papers) of black student activists. The first section of the report presents the presidents' attitudes, illustrated in part by their own statements. The second section presents a selected number of presidents' formal…

Developing an effective and functional student union on the junior college campus requires the consideration of a variety of factors. First, the diverse characteristics, interests, and abilities of the facility's future users--especially students--must be determined. After this, students, faculty, staff, and community leaders should be involved in…

A conflict exists between the rights of students to privacy and the needs of college and/or others to obtain information about them. This conflict is prevalent in social work graduate schools, and centers around the following issues: (1) what information is obtained, (2) where it is obtained, (3) where and how it is kept, (4) whom requests what…

As part of a study of student characteristics, Part 2 of the College Student Questionnaire (CSQ) was administered in 1969 to a random sample of full-time freshmen and sophomores at Northern Michigan University (NMU) who were stratified by sex, class, and residence. Data obtained from 529 participants provided the basis for this report on student…

The administrative structure, organization of the faculty, and the student government at Harrisburg Area Community College (Pennsylvania) are explored in this monograph, which is the first of five studies written around the theme, "meeting the changing needs of students." Since its inception in 1964, the college has attempted to develop…

Though the authors in these 13 papers differed in their attitudes toward the concept of an Ombudsman on campus, a majority seemed to agree with the following assumptions: 1) various levels of administration and bureaucracy are capable of abusing the citizenry of the university community; 2) the Ombudsman is a "third party agency" and is not the…

Centered on specific definitions of ombudsman and learning center, the use of the college learning center director as an academic ombudsman is explored. In particular, this proposed relationship is based on the learning center's special concern with facilitating student learning and, as such, on becoming an intercessory for clients with academic…

In the course of investigating disorders on college campuses, the Committee conducted preliminary inquiries and later took sworn testimony from witnesses concerning the following institutions: Harvard University, Columbia University, City College of New York, Brooklyn College, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, Voorhees…

Efforts to protect students' consumer rights may encounter difficulty because of the heavy burdens now being placed on colleges and universities. Five ways that the concept of consumerism breaks down the educational setting are discussed. (Editor/LBH)

The author tells of his experience in getting admitted to Harvard University as a freshman at the age of 63. He recounts the difficulty he endured in adjusting to a world of 20-year-olds, to learning how to study, do homework, and sit for exams. (Author/RK)

The Free Speech Movement (FSM) at Berkeley during the 1960s demonstrated to students nationwide that effective protest movements could be built on campus and that engaging in such dissident activity was not un-American but was, in fact, their moral and political right. The history of this movement is discussed. (RM)

Describes a student-initiated plan for promoting institutional change and articulates the core principles that guided efforts in influencing faculty, administrative and legislative groups. (Author)