Reviews Ridgewood, New Jersey, case wherein several parents claimed that school district's student survey violated students' privacy rights protected by the Constitution and two federal statutes: The Family Rights and Privacy Act and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment. Discusses subsequent federal regulatory and state legislative action.…

This document contains the final policy guidance issued by the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, which is called the "Sexual Harassment Guidance." Sexual harassment of students is prohibited by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The guidance provides educational institutions with information regarding the standards that…

Areas of liability that relate to the daily practice of continuing education professionals are summarized. Areas of the law with the greatest potential for litigation involving the institution and its employees are identified, along with 16 preventive measures that protect the educational practitioner and institution from frivolous litigation yet…

Significant changes in United States culture during the past 25 years and court decisions resulting from legal suits challenging traditional educational procedures have made the future course of education very unpredictable. The social unrest of the 1960s brought about innovations such as open classrooms and nongrading systems in the wake of…

The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court of a case involving the dismissal for academic reasons of a student from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Medical School is presented. The Court upheld that Charlotte Horowitz had been afforded all rights by the fourteenth amendment and that the decision of the Court of Appeals, which held that the…

Describes a course in school publications for future publications advisers, which stressed the adviser's role in relation to the First Amendment; presents students' opinions on an adviser's role and responsibilities. (GW)

Discusses the need for student journalists to know their First Amendment rights by learning about press law. (MB)

A university's affirmative responsibility to maintain access to university facilities for first amendment activity may conflict with its equally compelling duty to restrain from interfering with first amendment activity. This dilemma is considered with regard to Mississippi Gay Alliance vs. Goudelock, a case involving editorial censorship of an…

The merits of student arguments challenging the constitutionality of mandatory student fees to finance certain activities or services are examined and balanced against the public university's interest in providing a forum for the expression of diverse and controversial ideas. (MSE)

The right to form adult consensual intimate relationships is a fundamental personal freedom. A strong and effective university policy against sexual harassment and the recognition of faculty and students' right to privacy will, within the parameters of constitutional guarantees, serve both the university's and the individual's interest.…

Although administrators cannot engage in censorship, there are many ways in which they can encourage a responsible student press. The legal rights of the state university student press and the connstitutional bases of those rights as seen by the courts are described. (MLW)

The First Amendment protects editors of school newspapers. Accordingly, school policy should offer students due process rights, and the newspaper adviser, who is instrumental in controlling the content of student publications, should be chosen with care. (TE)

This paper is a presentation, in outline form, of the development of the "quasi-nonpublic forum," where cases involving student free speech push the envelope of what is acceptable under Constitutional law and what is appropriate/acceptable student behavior under constraints set by school regulations. Context is set by presenting court…

Student religious groups and individuals have rights equal to those of any other student groups or individuals to expression and exercise of their beliefs. Available from the Christian Legal Society, Box 2069, Oak Park, Illinois 60303; $5.00 per year. (Author/IRT)

The result of court litigation on the expulsion of a medical student is questioned, and a modified version of the traditional due process test is recommended. The test would be for "substantial deprivation of a significant interest." Available from State University of Iowa, College of Law, Iowa City, IA 52240. (MSE)