A student sit-in at St. Cloud State College led to a year's experiment in representative government on campus. (Editor/PG)

After student court justices at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock closed their deliberations to the student press, an attorney general reviewed the incident and decided that student court meetings fall under the Freedom of Information Act. (GT)

Reviews situations in which administrators are justified in substituting their decisions for those of students, offers rationale and legal foundation for such actions, gives suggested process to follow for administrators who feel that students decisions are inappropriate, and discusses situations illustrating that administrators sometimes must…

Conducted ethnographic study of unique student organization, the Young Monarchists League, formed as a student political party to run against another campus party that was then in control of student government and the student senate. Study provides glimpse of the group from within and demonstrates difficulty of placing a group within a typology.…

Discusses the need for schools to not only teach students about their rights and responsibilities as citizens, but to encourage them to practice these principles though active involvement in various school activities. Describes how some schools have accomplished the latter by implementing a concept called "youth infusion" involving…

A study of the Brazilian revolutionary socialist student movement focusing on attempts made by the United States Agency for International Development to restructure Brazilian higher education, and on the efforts of Brazilian students to resist American intervention in their educational system. (EH)

Tallahassee Community College (Florida) can serve as an example of how a student government failed and was successfully resurrected. The initial problem was in adopting rather than adapting the traditional pattern of student government practiced in 4-year institutions. The failure symptoms were: no real authority for student government;…

Author discusses what can be done with the design of student government organizations to make them more responsive to the needs of the student body. (Editor/CB)

The thrust of this paper is that while a great deal is being said about student participation in governance, little is being done to prepare them for such participation. The rhetoric has changed but curriculum has not. Until curriculum demands responsible, creative reactions in the classroom, responsible participation in governance will remain…

Described is a jury trial involving intermediate grade students as defendants, lawyers, and jury, with an adult as judge. It is suggested that it is important to deal with serious offenses at school in a democratic way that involves students in decision making. (KC)

Teachers at a laboratory middle school in Evanston, Illinois, reconceptualized and revitalized an ailing student council according to some meaningful goals: empowering and involving all students, creating an atmosphere for cooperative action, and offering opportunities for service. There are three main arms to this action council (service,…

Using panel data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS), this study empirically analyzes the relationship between two forms of civic engagement--student government and community service--and educational progress made after the eighth grade by addressing the following questions. Does civic engagement affect academic progress…

Discusses student representation in academic government with particular reference to the academic boards of the 30 designated polytechnics in England and Wales. In addition to discussing underlying principles of student representation, the article gives data for polytechnic university senates. (Author/PG)

Article described a comprehensive organization that gave increased opportunities to the whole ability-range. (Author/RK)