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Lee, Philip – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background/Context: Legal scholars have cited the Fifth Circuit's ruling in Dixon v. Alabama State Board of Education (1961) as the beginning of a revolution for students' rights that ended the in loco parentis relationship between colleges and their students. But little has been written about the students' activism that led to this seminal case.…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, College Students, Student Rights, School Responsibility
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Purcell, Margaret A. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2015
In summer 2011, a course titled "Nonprofit Management" was offered as an undergraduate, junior-level course for nontraditional, adult, distance students at the University of Alabama (UA) who were enrolled in the New College LifeTrack (NCLT) program. This article discusses how the course was centered around a service-learning experience…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Undergraduate Students