[1] 1995 NASPA White Paper. The Power Of Association: Defining Our Relationship with Students in the 21st Century
by Gary Pavela
Colleges and universities are in the rnidst of profound change. There is a sense of rapid acceleration toward an uncertain future. Some observers think many institutions as physical plants will disappear.
The likely prospect is that higher education institutions will be educating larger numbers of students (many nontraditional), frequently at home or in the work place, using new technology and placing greater reliance upon internships, cooperative learning, and student collaboration. Courses will be shorter (some lasting a few days or weeks), and calibrated to the needs and interests of individual students. Education for larger numbers of younger people may become more vocational, taught by practitioners, while education for older people will focus more on the liberal arts. Over time, when students appear on campus more of them will be older (and wiser) than many student affairs professionals and faculty members. Also, when reference is made to "campuses," more students will think first of community colleges.Download the full article here
[2] Revisiting In Loco Parentis: How Should the Student-University Relationship be Defined?
The recognition of student rights–and responsibilities
1. A key case is Bradshaw v. Rawlings 612 F.2d 135, 139-40 (3rd Circuit, 1979) (college policies against underage drinking did not create a legal duty to protect a student who was injured while riding in the car of an intoxicated fellow student, after attending a sophomore class picnic). Whatever the implications of Bradshaw for tort law, it accurately summarized the growth of student power in campus governance:
The campus revolutions of the late sixties and early seventies were a direct attack by the students on rigid controls by colleges and were an all-pervasive affirmative demand for more student rights. In general, the students succeeded, peaceably and otherwise, in acquiring a new status at colleges throughout the country. These movements, taking place almost simultaneously with legislation and case law lowering the age of majority, produced fundamental changes in our society. A dramatic reapportionment of responsibilities and social interests of general security took place. Regulation by the college of student life on and off campus has become more limited. Adult students now demand and receive expanded rights of privacy in their college life . . .
