TEN. Associations of university officials

1972 ◽  
pp. 211-225
Keyword(s):  
University Officials

Notifying Parents Following a College Student Suicide Attempt: A Review of Case Law and F.E.R.P.A., and Recommendations for Practice

NASPA Journal ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R Baker
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Suicide Attempt ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Student Affairs Officers ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
Subsequent Episode ◽  
Recommendations For Practice ◽  
University Officials

Decisions by university officials not to notify a student’s parents following a suicide attempt on campus have been severely criticized by some observers. Although courts have not imposed a parental notice requirement, the practice is advantageous to students in many situations. The author recommends a system of notification that relies primarily upon nonmedical student affairs officers to collect reports and communicate with parents following a campus suicide attempt. In determining what information to communicate to parents, student affairs officers are advised to keep in mind the legal implications of the disclosure, including the possibility of a subsequent episode of selfdestructive behavior.

“Stick to Sports”? First Amendment Values and Limitations to Student-Athlete Expression

2021 ◽  
pp. 107769902110187
Author(s):  
Michael K. Park
Keyword(s):  
Expression Analysis ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Public University ◽  
Regulatory Environment ◽  
Student Athlete ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
University Officials

The resurgence of political activism by student-athletes raises the specter of increased constitutional challenges to public university regulations on student-athlete speech. This article explores the special regulatory environment situating student-athletes and gleans the First Amendment values underpinning cases where student-athletes challenge institutional regulations on their freedom of expression. Analysis of the legal discourse suggests that courts are more likely to apply increased scrutiny to university officials’ attempts to regulate expression on public issues versus speech that address personal or private matters. This article ends with some suggestions for practitioners and scholars to consider when evaluating regulations on student-athlete speech.

scholarly journals Operation Varsity Blues: Disguising the legal capital exchanges and white property interests in athletic admissions

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-32
Author(s):  
Kirsten Hextrum
Keyword(s):  
College Athletes ◽  
Exchange Theory ◽  
Legal Capital ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
Whiteness As Property ◽  
University Officials ◽  
White Elite

“Operation Varsity Blues” (OVB) indicted coaches and administrators from eight universities for accepting bribes in exchange for admitting fraudulent athletes. As part of the conspiracy parents paid university officials to admit students with little-to-no sport experience as college athletes. Court filings in the case contrasted OVB to the legal process of athletic recruitment and admission in which universities set different criteria to admit those with athletic talent (Smith, 2019a). This conceptual article cautions against such a contrast. Using Harris’ (1993) whiteness as property, Bourdieu’s (2011) capital exchange theory, and findings from my research into athletic recruitment and admission, I examine how OVB closely resembles current athletic admissions practices that provide a legal pathway to college that privileges white, elite communities.

Engaging collaborative communities: dialogue and campus sexual assault

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Madden
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Title Ix ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Campus Sexual Assault ◽  
Administrative Position ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Proactive Communication ◽  
University Officials ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose While universities continue to grow increasingly sophisticated in their communication functions, issues like sexual assault continue to pose a challenge. One reason is that these issues are emotional, complex, and often only dealt with at the point that they have become a crisis for the institution. The purpose of this paper is to understand the role that dialogue can play in proactively communicating about issues of sexual assault. Design/methodology/approach This study utilized 32 in-depth interviews with university officials from 21 different universities across the USA with responsibility for communicating about issues of sexual assault, including Title IX officers, victims advocate services, student affairs, and university communications. Findings Issues managers worked to create opportunities for dialogue on their campus communities by highlighting shared values. Within a dialogic framework, university issues managers were creating spaces for dialogue and developing alternative forms of engagement in an effort to empower students with the necessary skills to engage in dialogue with their peers. There was a recognition that dialogue is most effective when it is peer-to-peer vs coming from an authoritative or administrative position. Issues managers helped students to develop the skills necessary for engaging in dialogue with each other. Originality/value To advance public relations scholarship, there is a need to consider emotional and gendered issues that are often stigmatized. This can help practitioners to develop better, and proactive, communication strategies for handling issues of sexual assault as to avoid negative media attention and work to change organizational culture.

Blurring the boundary between high school and college

2017 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
Robert L. Hampel
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Dual Enrollment ◽  
Firm Boundaries ◽  
American Education ◽  
College Level ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
University Officials ◽  
Dividing Line

The dividing line between high school and college has never been entirely clear, explains a historian of American education. In fact, for most of the 19th century, it was difficult to distinguish between high schools and colleges. It wasn’t until the early 1900s that high school and university officials drew firm boundaries between the two institutions, and even then, it remained hard to distinguish between high school and college-level work. Moreover, there are some benefits to blurring the boundaries, the author argues, pointing to current efforts to promote dual enrollment, early colleges, and other efforts to blend the high school and college

Business Organized as Power: The New Imperium in Imperio

1950 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alpheus T. Mason
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Free Enterprise ◽  
Crucial Difference ◽  
Welfare Society ◽  
Industrial Civilization ◽  
University Officials ◽  
The Welfare State

President Truman's stubborn determination to build on the New Deal's embattled foundations an imposing edifice called the Welfare State is stirring the business community and its spokesmen to renewed and outwardly bold hostilities. This present outcry for “welfare,” it seems, is not what it used to be: “The irresponsible clamor of the mob for bread and circuses.” “Welfare” is now recognized as “a justifiable demand, consonant with the necessities of social evolution,” and in keeping with our political tradition. The old jungle economy, at long last, must be discarded. All this is now cheerfully conceded. But whose responsibility is it to bring order out of chaos, whose business is it to formulate and administer the welfare program? There is the rub. Certainly not government's, business leaders assert, for ultimately that would spell not a glorious welfare society but an inglorious welfare state. This ignominious prelude to statism, to totalitarianism, to despotism, must be avoided at all cost. That is why certain publicists, ex-New Dealers, industrial leaders and university officials are alerting the business community to a fresh responsibility, the unique venture of capitalism today—“the greatest opportunity in the world,” Russell Davenport calls it, and peculiarly the concern of Free Enterprise.Harvard's Business School Dean, Donald K. David, also points ominously at “The Danger of Drifting,” and sharply differentiates between “freedom to” and “freedom from,” between “equality of opportunity and equality of results,” etc., etc. These refinements are important, Dean David decides, because in them lies the crucial difference between welfare society (which he approves) and welfare state (which he deplores). How easy it is, he warns, to drift into the lethal arms of the welfare state. To foil the octopus of welfare, businessmen must be vigilant and aggressive. “Responsibility for this program,” Dean David concludes, “is going to be placed in the hands of the businessman, because we have, whether some people like it or not, an industrial civilization; and the businessman, whether he likes it or not, has to assume new responsibilities.”

The American Studies Program at Yale: Lux, Veritas, et Pecunia

Prospects ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 41-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigmund Diamond
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Political Views ◽  
University Archives ◽  
National Headquarters ◽  
The University ◽  
University Officials ◽  
Considerable Pressure

Documents in the Yale University archives - the papers of the presidents, deans, provosts, secretary of the university - show that Yale was no more insulated from the hot and cold of post-World War II politics than any other university. During the decade of 1945–55, the Yale authorities felt considerable pressure to take action concerning several appointees whose political views had been questioned by alumni, and most certainly by others as well. The New Haven Office of the FBI - and through it the national headquarters in Washington, D.C. - had been in close touch with university officials for some time and, during the last years of the regime of President Charles Seymour, knew of what it described as the Yale policy of inquiring into the political activities of faculty members prior to their appointment. As the Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Office reported to J. Edgar Hoover on June 6, 1949, “The position of Yale University is apparently swinging around to the point… that it is much better to look men over and know exactly what they are before they are appointed, and that it is much easier to get rid of them by not appointing them than after they have been once appointed.”

An Exploratory Examination of College Students’ Likelihood of Reporting Sexual Assault to Police and University Officials: Results of a Self-Report Survey

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (22) ◽  
pp. 3419-3438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Briana M. Moore ◽  
Thomas Baker
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Sexual Assaults ◽  
Reporting Behavior ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
University Officials ◽  
Trust In Police

Despite the growing salience of sexual assault victimizations on college campuses, reporting of such events remains low. A better understanding of what affects students’ reporting behavior and to whom they are likely to report victimizations can aid in developing policies and programs that promote reporting. Using a sample of 336 college students, this study uses hypothetical scenarios to examine the factors that affect individuals’ likelihood to report sexual assaults to the police and to university officials. Results show that students are significantly more likely to report sexual assaults to the police than to university officials. In addition, wanting justice, trust in police and university officials, and a desire for services are among the most consistent factors that affect students’ likelihood to report to both the police and university officials.

The Responsibility for Retention: Perceptions of Students and University Personnel

2001 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Eric Landrum
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
College Campus ◽  
University Personnel ◽  
Perceptions Of Students ◽  
The University ◽  
University Officials

A survey of 88 university personnel and 142 undergraduate students was conducted using a newly constructed Retention Questionnaire (RQ). The RQ was designed to assess the relative levels of student and university responsibilities for retention attributed by both students and university personnel. A comprehensive pool of 81 possible influences on retention were generated, and each participant rated each item with the percent of responsibility attributed to the university, and percent responsibility attributed to the student. For each item, percent of responsibility was rated for both groups, but in this study only university responsibility was analyzed. Results indicated that students and university personnel frequently differ in their perceptions of responsibility—and for some items, students expected more from the university than university officials. These patterns of results are discussed within the framework of how to address substantive retention issues on a college campus.

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