Publications, Video, & Web Tutorials

 

 

NACUANOTES: Whose room is it anyway?  Lawful entry and search of student dormitory rooms.

College and university students have strong expectations of privacy about their dormitory rooms, which they perceive – and courts have come to recognize – as the student’s “home away from home.”  At the same time, however, college and university officials frequently have legitimate reasons to enter and search a student’s room.

 

Required Title IV and Title IX Disclosures

This web page includes links to CUA specific information on Financial Aid, Academic Program, Fees and Expenses, FERPA, Campus Security and other required disclosures under Title IV of the Higher Education Act and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

 

NCAA Pregnant and Parenting Student Athletes Handbook: Contains resources and model policies

 

Syllabi and Contracts
A power point on whether or not a syllabus is a contract. For use in faculty training. Posted with permission of the author, Kathryn Atkinson Overberg, Associate Counsel, Iowa State University.

 

Memorandum to the Faculty: Teaching Troubled Students After the Virginia Tech Shooting
This memorandum is a question and answer guidance directed to faculty, and authored by Gary Pavela. Pavela is an expert on how colleges can assist troubled students, and a teacher in the honors program at University of Maryland. Mr. Pavela publishes a weekly newsletter on campus law and policy, titled the Synfax Weekly Report.  He is also the author of Questions and Answers on College Student Suicide: A Law and Policy Perspective (College Administration Publications, 2006).

Report of the May 2006 AAMC Criminal Background Check Advisory Committee

In response to inquiries by medical school administrators seeking guidance regarding criminal background checks of medical school applicants and enrolled medical students, the AAMC Group on Student Affairs (GSA) developed a comprehensive set of recommendations for consideration by the AAMC Governance. In June of 2005, the AAMC Executive Council approved the recommendation that a criminal background check be completed on all applicants accepted annually to medical school. The May 2006 report, which was approved by AAMC Executive Council in June, contains recommendations on how to implement the background checks.  AAMC will develop and administer a centralized system for background checks on accepted students. The report recommends that the check be done on students before they matriculate, but after the interview and acceptance process. The role of schools will be to develop policies and procedures on how to handle the information obtained on students who do not have a spotless background check. Full implementation of the system is several years in the future.

 

NACUANOTE: The Constitutionality and Current Status of the Solomon Amendment
NACUA members are authorized and encouraged to reproduce and distribute copies of NACUANOTES, in whole or in part, with or without attribution, to faculty, staff and students of their respective institutions. Copyright in each note is retained by the author, however, NACUA members are authorized to copy and redistribute them, in whole or in part, (including by posting to the NACUA member's web page) to faculty and staff of their member institutions.

 

Framework for Developing Institutional Protocols for the Acutely Distressed or Suicidal College Student This July 2006  was prepared with the help of the American College Health Association, the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors, College Student Educators International, and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.

Safety in Student Transportation: A 35 page resource guide published jointly by the American Council on Education (ACE), the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and United Educators Insurance (UE).

 

NACUANOTES: Student Criminal Background Checks 

 

SAFETI Clearinghouse: Center for Global Education

 

Arizona State University Field Trip and Field Research Safety and Risk Management Guidelines

 

NACUA Alert on US. Supreme Court Decisions in University of Michigan Admissions Cases

 

Race- Neutral Approaches to Diversity

Office of Civil Rights  39 page report issued spring 2003 on ways to increase diversity in the applicant pool.

 

Financial Aid Required Disclosures Chart

A chart listing the different requirements under 20 USC §1094 (General Provisions Relating to Student Assistance Programs (Program Participation Agreements).

The chart identifies who receives the information (currently enrolled students, current employees, the general public, applicants for admission, etc.); what they receive (the entire report or notice of availablity of report); how it must be provided (direct individual notice, web page, email);  and when (what date, how often) it must be provided . The chart is now available online as the last three pages of Chapter 7 of the Student Finanical Aid Handbook, which deals with Consumer Information.  










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