According to a report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (NCPPHE), a nonprofit organization that promotes public policies that enhance higher education opportunity, 250,000 prospective students were locked out of college in 2003-2004 because of increased tuition or reductions in admissions and course offerings. The…

There has been an increase on the number of applicants and the average SAT scores of the admitted students to colleges and universities in the United States. The total number of applicants may increase for purely external reasons, such as more students graduating from high school or more students reading good things about a particular college, but…

Career and technical education (CTE) offers a major solution for many problems in the nation's education system. CTE also has a profound impact in saving the youth that even No Child Left Behind (NCLB) leaves behind. Each year, tens of thousands of kids, feeling disconnected and disenfranchised, drop out of school. In its present state of…

Faced with a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state higher education officials are trying to relieve the burden on the state by redirecting several thousand high school seniors from California's public four-year universities to community colleges for their first two years of school. The California effort emerges…

The Leadership and Service Programs office at Ball State University in Indiana started the Excellence in Leadership Program in 1994. Funding for three years was secured from the Kellogg Foundation to develop a comprehensive leadership program that would be run by the student activities staff in cooperation with Academic Affairs. After the grant…

Encountering an aggressive student press can be an intimidating and frustrating experience for an administrator. By understanding the rights and responsibilities of a college newspaper staff, administrators can improve their relationships with the press, as well as benefit themselves by using the newspaper to inform campus groups of important…

Designed to help develop informed and capable student leadership in student affairs at Evergreen Valley College (EVC), this student government guide and text for Government 91 focuses on the major leadership needs and objectives of student government within a participatory framework. After an explanation of course objectives and requirements,…

Discusses the outbreak of intense student violence in Gujerat, India, its objectives and effectiveness; and the three phases of student activism (student movements, agitations, and power).

Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Association of American Universities, Washington, D. C., Oct. 21, 1968.

THIS INSTITUTE (AUGUST 1963) DEALT WITH THE QUALITY OF LEADERSHIP AS SHOWN IN THE CAMPUS RESIDENCE PROGRAM. THE PAPERS COVERED (1) THE NECESSARY STEPS TO CONSIDER IN PLANNING NEW HOUSING, (2) RENOVATION OF SOUND BUILDINGS, (3) REPLACEMENT OF OLD BUILDINGS, (4) THE NEED FOR RULES AND REGULATIONS AND FOR THEIR EFFECTIVE ADMINISTRATION, (5) THE…

There are a variety of approaches to the limitation of discretion: in loco parentis, constitutional, contract, and trust for fiduciary theories. What has made these principles so far a matter of logical assertion rather than of law is that the courts have chosen not to review a college's use of discretionary authority regarding its students. Only…

Until recently, the courts perceived almost no difference in their treatment of public and private schools. Under due process and equal protection clauses of the law, a student's economic investment in his education is protected. The obvious legal concept to invoke to protect economic expectation is contract, so most cases involving student rights…

Although the ultimate objectives of much campus protest are unclear, students generally want to be free of paternalistic university supervision. But they seem to want both academic shelter against the outside community and freedom from control by the university. We must examine the extent to which the university should treat its students as…

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…