Student rights are those rights, such as civil rights, constitutional rights, contracts and consumer rights, governing the rights and freedoms of students and allowing students to use their educational investments. This includes such things as the right to freedom of speech and association, to legal, equality, autonomy, safety and privacy, and accountability in contracts and advertising, governing the treatment of students by teachers and administrators. There are only a few scholarships on the rights of students around the world. In general most countries have some sort of student rights (or rights applicable in educational settings) enshrined in their laws and formalized by their court precedents. Some countries, such as Romania, in the European Union, have a comprehensive student rights bill, which outlines the rights and how they should be processed. However, most countries, such as the United States and Canada, have no cohesive rights bill and students must use courts to determine how precedent rights in one area apply in their own jurisdiction.
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Canada, like the United States, has a number of statutes and court precedents governing higher education and granting student rights. The Canadian Encyclopedia, which details Canadian life and government issues, states that in Canada "Basically two kinds of rights apply to students: substantive rights - the real rights that students should enjoy - and procedural rights - the methods students use claiming their rights.This article deals with students in public institutions, although they in private schools can claim rights under general laws and provincial education laws. "
Canada does not yet have a national student Bill of Rights or comparable documents. If and when someone is placed in Canada, it is likely that this document will be called the Student Rights and Freedom Charter. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom is equivalent to the National Bill of Rights in the United States. The Canadian student or government union is the Canadian Student Federation and has not proposed such a bill.
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Court law and precedent on student privacy rights
- Right of privacy in higher education
In the AlBaho Case, a French criminal court found three senior academics at cole supà © rieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ICPSE) guilty of email espionage. This was the first incident in which academic staff were found guilty of criminal acts as a result of complaints made by a student - and where the staff members were fully supported by their institution.
United States
In the US, students have many rights granted by law or law (eg the Civil Rights Act and the Higher Education Act) and the executive president's order. This has been formalized by the courts to various levels. However the US has no national student rights bill and students rely on institutions to voluntarily provide this information. While some colleges post their own student bills, there is no legal requirement that they do so and there is no requirement that they post all legal rights.
Legal and court precedent on institutional regulation
- The right to protection from arbitrary or volatile decision making
Decision-making should not be arbitrary or fickle/random and, thus, disturbing justice. While the case relates to private schools, Healy v. Larsson (1974) found that what is applied to private intuition is also applied to the public.
- The right to have an institution follows its own rules
Institutions are required, on a contractual basis, to follow their own rules. The institutional document can also be considered an implied-n-fact contract. Goodman v. President and Supervisor Bowdoin College (2001) decided that institutional documents are still contractual regardless of whether they have a disclaimer.
- Right to comply with bulletins and circulars
Students are protected from deviations from information advertised in newsletters or circulars.
- Right to comply with the rules
Students are protected from deviations from information advertised in the rules.
- Right to comply with the course catalog
Students are protected from deviations from the information advertised in the course catalog.
- Right to comply with the student code
Students are protected from deviations from the information advertised in the student code.
- Right to comply with the handbook
Students are protected from deviations from the information advertised in the handbook.
- Right to fulfill an appointment made by an advisor
Healy v. Larsson (1974) found that a student completing a degree requirement determined by an academic advisor is entitled to a degree on the grounds that this is an implied contract.
- Right to ongoing contract
Mississippi Medical Center v. Hughes (2000) stipulates that students have implied rights to ongoing contracts during the ongoing enrollment period indicating that students have the right to pass as long as they meet the requirements as they were initially communicated. Change of degree requirement is unacceptable. Bruner v. Petersen (1997) found also that contract protection does not apply if a student, who fails to meet the requirements, is accepted back into the program. Students may be required to meet additional requirements that support their success. It can also help avoid discrimination problems.
- Right to know change of degree requirements
Brody v. Finch University of Health Sciences Chicago Med. School (1998) stipulates that students have the right to pay attention to changing degree requirements.
- Right to fulfill verbal promises
Verbal contracts are also binding. North Carolina Appeals Court at Long v. University of North Carolina at Wilmington (1995) found, however, that verbal agreements should be made in an official capacity to bind (Bowden, 2007). Dezick v. Umpqua Community College (1979) found a student compensated because the class offered orally by the dean was not provided.
Court law and precedent on student rights in academic counsel
- Right to fulfill verbal promises and appointments by advisor
Verbal contracts are binding. They must be made in an official capacity, however, to bind. Dezick v. Umpqua Community College (1979) found a student compensated because the class offered orally by the dean was not provided. Healy v. Larsson (1974) found that a student completing a degree requirement determined by an academic advisor is entitled to a degree on the grounds that this is an implied contract. An advisor should, therefore, be regarded as the official source of information.
- The right to ongoing contracts during the ongoing registration period
Mississippi Medical Center v. Hughes (2000) stipulates that students have implied rights to ongoing contracts during the ongoing enrollment period indicating that students have the right to pass as long as they meet the requirements as they were initially communicated. Change of degree requirement is unacceptable. Bruner v. Petersen (1997) found also that contract protection does not apply if a student, who fails to meet the requirements, is accepted back into the program. Students may be required to meet additional requirements that support their success. It can also help avoid discrimination problems.
- Right to know change of degree requirements
Brody v. Finch University of Health Sciences Chicago Med. School (1998) stipulates that students have the right to pay attention to changing degree requirements (Kaplan & Lee, 2011). If a student, for example, is absent for one semester and is not kept enrolled, they need to know whether the degree requirements have changed.
- The right to protection from arbitrary or volatile decision making
Decision-making should not be arbitrary or fickle/random and, thus, disturbing justice. This is a form of discrimination. While the case relates to private schools, Healy v. Larsson (1974) found that what is applied to private intuition is also applied to the public.
Court law and precedent on student rights in recruitment
- Priority of facts and basic institutional figures before entering
The 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act (HOEA, 2008) requires that agencies disclose institutional statistics on the Department of Education website (DOE) to enable students to make informed educational decisions. Required information on the DOE website includes: tuition fees, fees, net attendance rates, lecture plans, and statistics including sex, abilities, ethnic student ratios and transfers as well as ACT/SAT scores, degrees offered, enrolled, and awarded. Institutions are also required to disclose credit transfer policies and articulation agreements.
- Right to protection from discrimination of ability in academic recruitment
1990 Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the 1973 Revision Act prohibit discrimination of ability in academic recruitment. This includes discrimination in recruitment abilities. Individuals designated by disability by a medical professional, who is legally recognized with disability and other qualified as being entitled to equal treatment and reasonable accommodation. The Supreme Court defines If it does not qualify as an individual who can perform the necessary tasks regardless of except for their disability.
Court law and precedent regarding student rights in acceptance
- Right to protection from sex discrimination in acceptance
Title IX of the 1972 Higher Education Act Amendments protect all sexes from pre-acceptance questions related to pregnancy, parental status, family or marital status. It can be seen that this action also protects against such investigations concerning persons who have sex, transsexual, transgender or sex and two.
- Right to protection from discrimination in acceptance ability
1990 Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act. This includes discrimination in the ability to accept. Individuals designated by disability by a medical professional, who is legally recognized with disability and other qualified as being eligible for equal treatment and reasonable accommodation in educational and occupational activities. The Supreme Court defines If it does not qualify as an individual who can perform the necessary tasks regardless of except for their disability.
- Right to protection from racial discrimination in acceptance
Individuals can not be discriminated against on the basis of their color in the admission of undergraduate or postgraduate schools.
- Right to test in acceptance accommodation
Protection from discrimination in admission requires that students receive the necessary accommodation to prove that they are eligible, protection from unfair testing practice, accommodation testing for speech, manual and hearing disabilities and access to alternative testing offered at accessible facilities. Alternate testing should also be offered as often as standard tests. Where there is no alternative testing, the institution, however, is not responsible for accommodation.
- The right to protection from sex discrimination in acceptance testing
Educational tests that are biased in favor of one sex, can not be relied on as the sole source of informed decision-making.
- Right to protection from racially segregated testing policies
Student equality requires that individuals are not treated differently by individuals or systematically by institutions. Thus, policy testing that is systematically discriminatory, violates the law in accordance with the constitution. United States v. Fordice (1992) prohibits the use of ACT scores in Mississippi acceptance, for example, because the difference between the grades of ACT white and black students is greater than the difference in IPK that is not considered at all.
- Right to race affirmative acts conscious in acceptance to correct discrimination
When schools have been involved in racial discrimination in the past they are required by law to take on a race-conscious affirmative action to fix it.
- The right to protection against reverse discrimination
White students are protected from racial discrimination in historic minority institutions. Racial equality calls for equal treatment for all individuals; it does not allow, however, lower acceptance test requirements or subjective assessments for racial minorities when there is an objective standard in place for all applicants.
- The right to protection from subjective interviews
There may be no separation in the admissions process including subjective interviews when there is an objective standard in place for all applicants.
- Right to protection from differential testing requirements
Students are protected from the use of lower acceptance test scores.
- Right to protection from revenue quotas based on demographics
Students are protected from the use of quota that sets aside seats for certain demographics.
- The right to adhere to the registration material
Students are protected from deviations from the information advertised on the registration material. This may be a binding, implicit-in-fact contract. Goodman v. President and Supervisor Bowdoin College (2001) decided that institutional documents are still contractual regardless of whether they have a disclaimer.
Court laws and precedents on student rights in readmissions
- Right to equations in readmissions
The institution should be careful with re-enrollment after the student fails to complete the required program requirements. Reception raises the question of why individuals are removed from the program in the first place and whether future applicants can be accepted under such conditions. Discrimination may be suspected of early abolition as well as in the case that other students are not accepted under such circumstances. Kaplan & amp; Lee and Lee (2011) recommend that institutions, if they wish to avoid breach of contract and discrimination, have an explicit re-registration policy even if the policy refuses re-registration. If students take a voluntary leave, the institution must have a valid reason to refuse re-enrollment.
Court law and precedent on student class rights
- Right to comply with the class syllabus
Students are protected from deviations from information advertised in the class syllabus. This may be a binding implied-n-fact contract. Goodman v. President and Supervisor Bowdoin College (2001) decided that institutional documents are still contractual regardless of whether they have a disclaimer.
- Right to the advertised course content
Students are entitled to receive instruction on the advertised course content. Institutions have the right to require the scope of course material specified by teachers and faculty and students are generally protected if they adhere to the syllabus guidelines.
- Right to the level of advertised instruction instruction
Students can expect lessons according to the level of the advertised course. Andre v. Pace University (1994) provides indemnification on the basis of default negligence and breach of contract.
- The right to pay attention to course objectives
Teachers should pay reasonable attention to all the subjects stated.
- The rights to the advertised content covered in sufficient depth
Students can have all advertised content covered in considerable depth.
- Uniform rights across the class
Scallet v. Rosenblum (1996) found that "strict control of the curriculum is needed to ensure uniformity across the classroom".
- The right to a fair judgment in accordance with the course syllabus
Students can be assessed fairly and in accordance with the criteria established by the course syllabus and may be protected from the addition of new assessment criteria. Institutions have a responsibility to maintain quality in class representation and inter-class comparability and prevent class inflation. Teachers have the right, under the first amendment, to communicate their opinions about the value of students, but institutions are required to meet students who imply a contractual right to fair assessment practice. The Department may alter the value incurred by the teacher that is inconsistent with the assessment or unfair or unreasonable policy.
- Right to learn
Students have the right to learn. Teachers do not have free control in class. They must act in departmental requirements that ensure the right of students to learn and should be considered effective. Sweezy v. New Hampshire (1957) found that teachers have the right to teach. They have no academic freedom under the law. Every rule of academic freedom is enforced by the school.
- Right to protect against time abuse
Students may expect protection from misuse of time; teachers may not waste their students' time or use the class as a listener for views or lessons related to the course. Riggin v. Bd. Superintendent of Ball St. Univ. found that instructors should not "waste the time of the students who come there and pay money for different purposes."
- Right to effective teaching
Students can expect effective teaching even if it requires department involvement in curriculum teaching and development. Kozol (2005) observes that curriculum development may not benefit all students because some students come from disadvantaged backgrounds where not every student has a fair chance to succeed in school. If there is a department involvement in student learning then the department needs to recognize that students are different when they become members of a minority group. Ogbu (2004) argues that in order for effective teaching to take place, departments need to understand students at the group level as well as on an individual level because even students in the same minority group differ. Given that students have the right to effective teaching, department involvement needs to understand cultural differences and cultural differences before curriculum development is considered.
- The right to protection from written or oral violence
Teachers have the right to organize expressions but should not exercise their first or false or discriminatory rights of their first amendment or in ways that prevent students from learning by mocking, arguing, harassing or using unfair judgment practices.
- Right to protection from discrimination in learning
1990 States with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act prohibit discrimination based on disabilities in the classroom. This Act, including discrimination in learning and other qualified persons, is entitled to equal treatment and reasonable accommodation in educational and occupational activities. The Supreme Court defines 'Instead of Qualifying' as an individual who can perform obligatory duties though not except for his disability.
- Right to arrange accommodation in a classroom facility
Students with disabilities are entitled to equal access to the classroom facilities required for a degree.
- Right to protection from a racially segregated testing policy
Students of Equality require that individuals are not treated differently by individuals or systematically by an institution. Thus, policy testing that is systematically discriminatory, violates the law in accordance with the constitution. United States v. Fordice (1992) prohibits the use of ACT scores in Mississippi acceptance, for example, because the difference between the grades of ACT white and black students is greater than the difference in IPK that is not considered at all.
Court laws and precedents about group rights of students
- Right to equation in the provision of student activity
Institutions have an obligation to provide equal opportunities in athletics, bands and clubs. This includes accommodation and common interest for both sexes, equipment provision and scheduling facilities for activities such as games and practices, travel allowances and dorm room facilities. This includes the same quality facilities including changing rooms, medical services, guidance services, coaching and publicity. To ensure that sufficient opportunities are available for women, the agency is responsible for complying with Title IX in one of three ways. They should provide athletic opportunities comparable to registration, proving that they continue to expand opportunities for under-represented sex or accommodate under-represented sexual interests and abilities.
- Right to disclosure of athletic plans and expenses
The 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act also requires disclosure of athletic information including male and female undergraduate registration, team count and team statistics including number of players, team operating costs, recruitment, trainer salaries, assistance to teams and athletes and team earnings (HEOA, 2008). This information is required to ensure that equality standards are met.
Court laws and precedents on student residence or residence rights
- Right to have visitors in dormitory halls
Good v. Associated Students Univ. Washington (1975) found students have the right to have visitors and lawyers in their living room halls.
Students are entitled to housing with the same quality and cost and equal housing policies.
- Right to protection from gender segregation in residence
Until the nineteen nineties of gender segregation are allowed as long as the institutional reasons for doing so are narrowly defined and justifiable. This precedent is officially reversed, however, after the Supreme Court in the United States v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1992) found that a woman mistakenly admitted to a men's military college reserves the right to remain registered.
- Right to disabled accommodation at residential facility
Students with disabilities are also entitled to the same quality dormitories as living accommodation (Section 504 Rehabilitation Act, 1973; Kaplan & Lee; 2011. All accommodation is currently free for students even if students have the financial means to pay them.
- Right to protection from age discrimination at home
Students are entitled to equal treatment in housing regardless of age unless there is a narrowly defined goal requiring unequal treatment and policies applied neutrally. Prostrollo v. The University of South Dakota (1974), for example, found that institutions may require all new students and college students to stay on campus. They do not differentiate between age groups.
Piazzola v. Watkins (1971) stipulates that students are not required to relinquish the right of search and seizure as dorm conditions. Random door sweeping is not allowed.
- Right to clearly defined dormitory search terms and seizures
Institutions may enter the room in times of emergency, if they have evidence of illegal activity or threats to the educational environment. Both of these terms must be clearly defined beforehand. Otherwise, the institution must ask permission to enter. When dorm rooms are legally sought for narrowly defined reasons or officials are permitted legally to enter the student lounge, students are not protected from property damage that occurs in the search process or actions taken when evidence is in sight.
- The right to protection from illegal police search and seizure
Evidence found in student dormitories by agency employees can not be used in courts and agencies can not allow police to conduct search and seizure by outgoing warrant. Students should not be punished for refusing a search without a letter from the institutional authorities or police officers. When students freely allow agency officials to enter the institution may require students to be responsible for the evidence in sight.
Court law and precedent on student privacy rights
- Right of privacy in higher education
Griswald v. Connecticut (1965) found that the third, fourth, and fifteenth changes together were the inalienable privacy rights. Students extended the same privacy rights extended to the wider community.
- Student record privacy rights
The 1971 Family Rights and Privacy Act and the 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act protect student information. Students have the right to access their records, record disputes and limited control over the release of documents to third parties.
- Right to approve release of student information
FRPA and HOEA require students to sign a release before their student records will be provided to third parties (for example: to parents and employers tec.). This law allows schools, however, to release information without the consent of students for the purpose of institutional audit, evaluation or study, consideration of student assistance, institutional accreditation, compliance with legal vocation or juvenile justice system officers or to comply with laws requiring identification sex offenders on campus. The institution may also disclose information to the student guardian if the student is declared dependent for tax purposes (FERPA).
- Right to pay attention to disclosure of information
Under FERPA, schools may publish directory information, including student name, address, telephone number, birth date, birthplace, awards, date of attendance or student ID number, unless students ask the school not to disclose it. Institutions must inform students that they are entitled to these rights.
- Right to use a fictitious name on a public internet forum
Individuals can use online pseudonyms and do not need to identify themselves (Kaplan & Lee; 2011). Random drug tests The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) urine test is legal to protect athletes' health, fair competition and opportunities to educate on drug abuse in sports. Officials are allowed to watch athletes urinate. This overturns a previous ruling that prohibits pee watching.
Court law and precedent on student information rights
- Priority of facts and basic institutional figures before entering
The 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act requires that agencies disclose institutional statistics on the Department of Education website (DOE) to enable students to make informed educational decisions. Required information on the DOE website includes: tuition fees, fees, net attendance rates, lecture plans, and statistics including sex, abilities, ethnic student ratios and transfers as well as ACT/SAT scores, degrees offered, enrolled, and awarded. Institutions are also required to disclose credit transfer policies and articulation agreements.
- Right to disclose financial aid information
The 2008 HOEA also requires higher education institutions to provide disclosure of financial aid information, which essentially advertises financial aid programs, pre-feasibility disclosures related to individual students, information that differentiates borrowed loans or federal and subsidized federal loans, lender agreements that preferably, the institutional rationale for the establishment of preferred lending agreements and note that schools are required to process any loan selected by students.
- Right to information about full attendance costs
According to the 2008 HOEA, disclosure of financial aid information should include average financial assistance provided per person, school fees, fees, rooms, boards, books, supplies and transportation.
- Right to information about full loan repayment costs
According to HOEA 2008, disclosure of financial aid information should include the amount of assistance that does not require repayment, eligible loans, loan terms, required repayments.
- The right to detailed federal student loan information
Pre-eligibility disclosures should include payback notice, lender details, principal amount, fees, interest rate, interest details, loan limit, cumulative balance, payment forecast, frequency, payback start date, minimum and maximum payments, and details regarding suspension , forgiveness, consolidation, and punishment.
- The right to the standard terminology in the form of financial assistance
Institutions are also required to use standard financial terminology and dissemination of standard financial aid information, forms, procedures, data security and a searchable database of financial assistance to ensure that students can easily understand their contractual rights and obligations. The form must be clear, concise, readable, and accessible.
- The right to detailed third-party student loan details
The HOEA (2008) requires third-party lender loans to disclose information about alternative federal loans, fixed and variable rates, limit adjustments, borrower terms, maximum loans, interest rates, principal amount, accrued interest, total estimated payout requirements, maximum monthly options payments and holds.
- The right to a financial aid awareness campaign for underrepresented students in higher education
The HOEA (2008) requires higher education institutions to engage in awareness-raising aid aid campaigns to make students aware of the student's assistance and the reality of receiving it.
- Right to information about the use of student fees
Van Stry v. State (1984) found the institution may not use student fees to support organizations outside the university. Teachers, likewise, have the right to refuse to pay union fees when they are allocated for inappropriate political purposes. This implies that students have the right to know what activities they are allocating.
- Right to disclosure of athletic plans and expenses
The 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act requires disclosure of athletic information including male and female undergraduate registration, team counts and team statistics including number of players, team operating costs, recruitment, trainer salaries, team and athlete assistance and team earnings (HEOA, 2008). This information is required to ensure that equality standards are met. This ensures that the institution complies with Title IX of the Amendment to the 1972 Higher Education Act that limits sexual discrimination and requires agencies to offer sports, clubs and equal opportunities.
- There are many other implied information rights. If the law states that students are entitled to certain information in the disclosure of pre-feasibility loans, this means that they are also entitled to have pre-feasibility loan disclosure.
- Right to information about policy justification
Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors from the University of Virginia (1995) find the cost of students should be allocated in a neutral way of view. They can not be based on religious, political or personal views (Henderickson, Both v. Associated Students University of Washington ) and they can not be imposed as punishment. This shows that students have the right to justify policies so they know they are neutral points of view.
- Right to information on course goals and content
Students may expect protection from misuse of time; teachers may not waste their students' time or use the class as a listener for views or lessons related to the course. Riggin v. Bd. Superintendent of Ball St. Univ. found that instructors should not "waste the time of the students who come there and pay money for different purposes." This assumes that the student is entitled to know the purpose of the course and the content.
- Right to course syllabus
Students can be assessed fairly and in accordance with the criteria established by the course syllabus and may be protected from the addition of new assessment criteria. Institutions have a responsibility to maintain quality in class representation and inter-class comparability and prevent class inflation. This assumes that students have the right to the syllabus to ensure a fair assessment.
Court law and precedent on student rights in discipline and dismissal
- Right to protection from discrimination in discipline and dismissal
The 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act protect students from discrimination on the basis of ability. This includes discriminating abilities in discipline and dismissal. Individuals must be designated with disabilities by medical professionals, who are legally recognized with disabilities.
- Right to legal process in disciplinary action
Matthews v. Elderidge (1976) finds when it is likely that one's interests will be seized through procedural errors, the value of additional security guards and government interests, including financial costs, should be weighed. Foster v. The Supervisory Board of Butler County Community College (1991) found that students were not entitled to legal process rights when applying for rejection of rejected applications. They are not yet students.
Legal proceedings are required when action has the potential to generate property or monetary losses or loss of future income or earnings, etc. This includes withdrawal of title or dismissal. Students have an interest in the remaining properties in the institution and have an undue form of removal protection.
- The right to legal proceedings in discipline with potential loss of freedom
Students also have the right of freedom to protect themselves from defamation or threats to their reputation. The federal district court has, therefore, found that legal proceedings are necessary in cases involving allegations of plagiarism, fraud and falsification of research data.
- Right to clear notification of invoices in the discipline process
In disciplinary action, students are entitled to the provision of a definite fee.
- Right to notice of cost notification in disciplinary process
Students are entitled to notice prompt bills, for example, ten days before the hearing.
- The right to trial before an expert judge
In cases involving the expulsion or dismissal the student is entitled to the right to "expert" judgment with an empowered judge to evict.
- Right to check all documents in disciplinary hearings
Students can check documents considered by institutional officials in disciplinary proceedings.
- The right to be a witness in a disciplinary hearing
Students can stand as witnesses and tell their stories during disciplinary hearings.
- Right to record disciplinary hearing
Students can record disciplinary hearings to ensure they are conducted by law.
- The right to an unbiased rule in a disciplinary hearing
Students can expect decisions in disciplinary proceedings based solely on evidence presented in the proceedings. Students are also entitled to a hearing before a person or committee that is not involved in a dispute.
- Right to written statement of findings in disciplinary hearing
Students can expect to receive a written report on findings from disciplinary hearings that show how decisions are aligned with the evidence.
- The right to justice in a disciplinary hearing
University of Missouri Curator Board, et al. v. Horowitz (1978) found that justice means that decisions, a) should not be arbitrary or fickle, b) should give equal treatment with regard to sex, religion or personal appearance, etc. and c) must be determined in a careful and careful manner.
- Right to hear before discipline
Trials must be conducted before suspension or discipline unless there is a proven danger of danger, property damage or academic disturbance.
- The right to act in line with the findings of the investigation
Texas Lightsey v. King (1983) stipulates that legal proceedings require that investigation results be taken seriously. A student can not, for example, be dismissed for cheating after a trial has found him innocent.
- Right to investigate and considerate circumstances
The American Bar Association (ABA) found that the need for fair and equitable hearing also prevents the use of a zero-tolerance policy that ignores the circumstances surrounding an action. A person who commits a crime because they believe that they are in danger can not be held accountable in the same way as individuals who commit the same crime for personal gain.
- The right to greater legal process in criminal matters
Students accused of criminal offenses including possession of drugs, plagiarism, cheating and falsification of research data or fraud, may have a greater legal process right.
- Right to cross check on criminal issues
Students charged with criminal offenses can examine cross-witnesses, lawyers.
- The right to trial is open to criminals
Students who are accused of a criminal offense may have an open trial to ensure that it is done with fair, counsel.
- The right to a standard of fair proof of evidence in criminal matters
In non-criminal proceedings in educational settings, schools may use lower standard evidence but when it comes to criminal matters they must have clear and convincing evidence.
- The right to negotiate in criminal matters Students accused of crime may have legal counsel. This does not mean that agencies have to pay for it but they
can be present.
- The right to a higher appeal process in a criminal issue
Students who are accused of a crime must have access to a higher appeals process.
- The right to legal representation during formal university disciplinary procedures
Student & amp; The Equality Administration Act proposed law in the General Assembly of North Carolina (House Bill 843) will allow any student or student organization charged with a behavioral violation at a North Carolina state university the right to be represented by lawyers at any stage of the disciplinary proceedings regarding alleged infringement.
Court laws and precedents on student rights and campus police
- The right to protection from unwarranted search and seizure
Students are protected from unwarranted search and seizure. The fourth and fourteenth amendments protect from search and seizure without a warrant. They perpetuate the right of individuals to "be safe in people, homes, papers and their effects." Warrants should include persons, places and certain items that are eligible to be sought and/or seized. Search and seizure rights do not apply to cars.
- Right to arrest by an official police officer
Individuals are protected from arrests by undetected campus police and illegal search and seizure if arrests are made.
- Right to protect from traps
Students are protected from traps by campus police because individuals are protected outside the educational environment.
- Right to protection from hostel search and foreclosure
Piazzola v. Watkins (1971) stipulates that students are not required to relinquish the right of search and seizure as dorm conditions. Sweeping random dash is not allowed.
- Right to clearly defined dormitory search terms and seizures
Institutions may enter the room in times of emergency, if they have evidence of illegal activity or threats to the educational environment. Both of these terms must be clearly defined beforehand. Otherwise, the institution must ask permission to enter. When dorm rooms are legally sought for narrowly defined reasons or officials are permitted legally to enter the student lounge, students are not protected from property damage that occurs in the search process or actions taken when evidence is in sight.
- The right to protection from illegal police search and seizure
Evidence found in student dormitories by agency employees can not be used in courts and agencies can not allow police to conduct search and seizure by outgoing warrant. Students should not be punished for refusing a search without a letter from the institutional authorities or police officers. When students freely allow agency officials to enter the institution may require students to be responsible for the evidence in sight.
Court law and precedent on student security rights
- Right to protection from injury on campus
A number of state courts have also found that agencies have a responsibility to prevent or make efforts to limit injuries on campus from dangerous properties and criminal conditions as long as injuries are predictable and preventable.
- Right to protection from injuries in facilities under campus jurisdiction
Knoll v. The Board of the University of Nebraska (1999) found that the agency was responsible for ensuring the security of facilities under jurisdiction or institutional oversight. Institutions, therefore, are responsible for dormitories and fraternities owned by institutions either on campus or off campus as well as for fraternities that may not belong to the institution but are governed by the institution. Taking the role of organizational setting also takes this responsibility. Other state courts find, that when students are not legally permitted to reside on institutional properties or in institutional buildings after office hours, for example, the institution is not responsible. Where institutions deliberately take responsibility for something like fraternity or require students to abide by their rules, they also take responsibility.
- Right to protection from predictable crime on campus
Students must be safe from evil that can be seen, especially in light of past criminal reports, if conditions of wandering or malicious have been made, etc. Institutions are required to take security measures including monitoring unauthorized personnel in dormitories, taking action against unauthorized personnel when they pose a threat to safety and ensuring adequate security measures in place.
- Right to protection from injuries caused by other students
Students are entitled to protection from other students whose bodies have oversight including voluntary jurisdictions such as clubs, student associations, fraternities, teams. This, for example, includes protection from the possible alleged separation that can be expected or avoided even if the fraternity does not lie in the institutional property. The agency also has a responsibility to inform itself of the security risks that exist in institutionalized programs (White, 2007). The district court has found that the agency is not responsible, however, to screen out former inmates before entering, 1987).
Court law and precedent on student constitutional rights
Students have the right to constitutional freedom and protection in higher education. Before the 1960s higher education institutions did not have to respect the constitutional rights of students but could act as parents for the benefit of students (Nancy Thomas, 1991). In 1960 Shelton v. Turner found that "the protection of awareness of constitutional vigilance is no more important than in the American school community" and in 1961 Dixon v. Alabam found that students were not required to surrender, as a condition of acceptance, constitutional rights and their protection.
Free speech and association free
- Right to freedom of speech and right of association
Students retain their first amendment right in higher education institutions. Papish v. Board of Curators Univ. from Missouri (1973) and Joyner v. Whiting (1973) finds students able to engage in speeches that do not interfere with other people's rights or school operations. Because schools are educational, they can organize speeches based on time, way, and place as long as they provide free speech zones for students as long as they are not used to limit expression.
- The right to freedom of speech and religion is not accepted
The first amendment protects indecent and indecent speech, including the middle finger. Texas v. Johnson (1989) found that "[i] f there is a basic principle underlying the first amendment, is that the government should not prohibit the expression of ideas only because society finds its own offensive or unpleasant idea.The first amendment does not recognize exceptions to bigotry, racism, and religious intolerance or ideas or things that may be underestimated, vulgar or profane. "
- The right of expression through clothing
Clothing, armbands, newspaper editorials and demonstrations have all found forms of free speech law.
- Right to free speech in public forum
The first amendment includes internet communications. In forums designated by the institution as a public forum or commonly used as a public forum, students can express themselves without the setting or deletion of content. Online Policy Group v. Diebold, Inc. , 2004 Rules can be made to prevent illegal activity.
Equality rights
- The right to protection from sex discrimination in higher education
Students are protected from discrimination on the basis of sex in programs or activities that receive federal funding except for military, fraternal, and student organizations.
- The right to protection from sexual abuse in education
Sexual harassment is considered to be a form of sex discrimination under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and applies to all federal programs and activities. Sexual harassment has been banned in the educational setting and applies also to the opposite and similar sexual harassment by students.
- The right to sex equity in the provision of student activity
Institutions have an obligation to provide equal opportunities in athletics, bands and clubs. This includes accommodation and common interest for both sexes, equipment provision and scheduling facilities for activities such as games and practices, travel allowances and dorm room facilities. This includes the same quality facilities including changing rooms, medical services, guidance services, coaching and publicity. To ensure that sufficient opportunities are available for women, the agency is responsible for complying with Title IX in one of three ways. They should provide athletic opportunities comparable to registration, proving that they continue to expand opportunities for under-represented sex or accommodate under-represented sexual interests and abilities.
- Right to disclosure of athletic plans and expenses
The 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act also requires disclosure of athletic information including male and female undergraduate registration, team count and team statistics including number of players, team operating costs, recruitment, trainer salaries, assistance to teams and athletes and team earnings. This information is required to ensure that equality standards are met.
- Right to protection from discrimination in facilities
1990 States with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act prohibit the ability of discrimination in higher education. This includes discrimination in the use of facilities. Individuals designated by disability by a medical professional, who is legally recognized with disability and other qualified as being eligible for equal treatment and reasonable accommodation in educational and occupational activities. The Supreme Court defines If it does not qualify as an individual who can perform the necessary tasks regardless of except for their disability.
- Right to protection from racial discrimination
Equality 1972 The Equality of Education Law protects students the same rights for educational opportunities regardless of race and 1965 Lyndon B. Johnson Executive Order 11246 and 1964 Civil Rights Act requires equal access to employment regardless of race.
- The right to protection from racial segregation
Students are protected from racial segregation that compromises access to quality education.
- The right to affirmative action
All federal entrepreneurs or federal contractors are required to take decisive action to help counteract the effects of historical discrimination. They must create objectives, schedules, action plans, budgets and reporting systems to ensure that marginalized populations are given equal employment opportunities. Rules should also be posted in prominent places easily available to all potential staff and employees.
- Right to freedom from discrimination in affirmative action
Diversity is defined in terms that are much broader than race. Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) found "a variety of qualities and experiences that can be considered valuable contributions" and "a variety of characteristics other than race and ethnicity." Majority members are also protected from reversed discrimination. A neutral race affirmative action policy should make exclusions individually and should not discriminate on the basis of race or color.
- The right to protection from discrimination on the basis of national origin in education
Individuals have the right to equal treatment regardless of the origin of nationality in higher education institutions (HEA, 1965) as long as they are citizens or foreign residents of the United States. The 1986 Reform and Immigration Act also prohibits discrimination based on citizenship. The agency has the right to discriminate based on the origin of the country of origin as long as its objectives are narrowly defined and applied neutrally. Therefore, it is permissible to ask non-residents who are legally present in the United States to have health insurance for example.
- Right to protection from age discrimination
Age discrimination in federally funded programs is prohibited by the 1975 Discrimination Act. This act builds upon the 1967 Age Discrimination Act in the Employment Act. It provides protection from unfair treatment between people of all ages from any explicit or implied differences that affect the benefits of participation.
- Right to equal treatment of student groups
Gay Activist Alliance v. The University of Oklahoma's Bupati Council (1981) found student groups entitled to equal and unbiased recognition. Recognition includes the allocation of facilities and equipment sources that are not biased unless there is evidence that the student group does not maintain household hygiene or poses a threat of danger, interference or criminal action. Right to autonomy for free choice (26 amendments)
Healey v. James (1972) finds students have the right to self-determination. "Students - who, on the grounds of the 26th Amendment, become eligible to vote when they are 18 - are adults who are members of a college or university community.Their interests and concerns are often very different from those of the faculty They often have values, views, and ideologies that are at war with people traditionally supported or indoctrinated by college. Bradshaw v. Rawlings (1979) found that "mature students now demand and accept an expanded privacy rights within their college life ".
Court law and precedent on student contract rights
- Right to contract rights
Carr v. St Johns University (1962) and Healey v. Larsson (1971, 1974) stipulates that higher education students and institutions form a contractual relationship. Higher education institutions are responsible for ensuring that contracts, including those that are implied and oral, fair, in good faith and inept.
- The right to comply with an institutional document
Students are protected from deviations from information advertised in the following documents: registration materials, manuals, course catalogs, bulletins, circulars, regulations, Ross v. Creighton University class syllabus, student code, and handbook. These documents may be binding on an implied-n-fact contract. Goodman v. President and Supervisor Bowdoin College (2001) decided that institutional documents are still contractual regardless of whether they have a disclaimer. This decision found that "although universities have reserved the right to change the student manual unilaterally and without notice, this reservation does not defeat the contractual nature of the student manual."
- Right to fulfill verbal promises
Ross v. Creighton University found that verbal contracts are binding. The North Carolina Appeals Court at Long v. University of North Carolina at Wilmington (1995) found, however, that verbal agreements should be made in an official capacity to bind. Dezick v. Umpqua Community College (1979) found a student compensated because the class offered orally by the dean was not provided. Healy v. Larsson (1974) found that a student completing a degree requirement determined by an academic advisor is entitled to a degree on the grounds that this is an implied contract. An advisor should, therefore, be regarded as the official source of information.
Court law and precedent on student consumer rights
John F. Kennedy 1962 The Consumer Bill of Rights, which is not a legal document, affirms that consumers have the right to consumer safety, information that prevents fraud, fraud and informed choice, to choose from several alternative options and the right to complaint, to be heard and overcome. A number of these principles are enshrined in the law of higher education.
- The right to fiduciary care is limited (institutional care for students' best interests)
Johnson v. Schmitz (2000) found in federal district courts established by the PhD committee for the purpose of advising students have an obligation to advise their students on their best interests. This is a limited fiduciary right.
- Right to care about student safety
Bradshaw v. Rawlings (1979) reiterates that where special relationships are established, courts may impose obligations on institutions or individuals to ensure the care of others. Obligations are defined here "as a duty which the law will give recognition to require one person to meet certain standards of conduct with respect to others." Institutions have the duty of care to ensure students' safety while respecting their personal autonomy. Mullins v. Pine Manor found that "[t] he the fact that a college does not need to supervise the morale of its resident students... has no right to abandon any attempt to ensure their physical safety".
Dixon v. Alabama (1961) stipulates that when the students' constitutional rights are not enforced, students are entitled to claim compensation in a court of law for monetary or material loss. Individuals may also file complaints related to discrimination with the federal Office of Civil Rights (OCR).
- Right to protection from injury on campus
A number of state courts have also found that agencies have a responsibility to prevent or make efforts to limit injuries on campus from dangerous properties and criminal conditions as long as injuries are predictable and preventable.
- Right to protection from injuries in facilities under campus jurisdiction
Knoll v. The Board of the University of Nebraska (1999) found that the agency was responsible for ensuring the security of facilities under jurisdiction or institutional oversight. Institutions, therefore, are responsible for dormitories and fraternities owned by institutions either on campus or off campus as well as for fraternities that may not belong to the institution but are governed by the institution. Taking the role of organizational setting also takes this responsibility. Other state courts find, that when students are not legally permitted to reside on institutional properties or in institutional buildings after office hours, for example, the institution is not responsible.
- Right to protection from predictable crime on campus
Students should be safe from evil that can be seen especially considering previous crime reports, wandering or dangerous conditions. Agencies are required to take safety precautions including monitoring unauthorized personnel in dormitories, taking action against unauthorized personnel when they pose a threat to safety and ensuring adequate security measures in place.
- Right to protection from injuries caused by other students
Students are entitled to protection from other students whose bodies have oversight including voluntary jurisdictions such as clubs, student associations, fraternities, teams. This, for example, includes protection from possible separations that can be expected or avoided even if the fraternity is not located in the prop
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