Students

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Students

Pre-Litigation Letters Put Colleges Between a Rock and a Hard Place

October 5, 2007

"This week The Badger Herald, the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s student newspaper, profiles “Elizabeth,” one of the growing number of college students who have received …

Students for Free Culture

October 10, 2007

FreeCulture.org is an international chapter-based student organization that promotes the public interest in intellectual property and information & communications technology policy. …

FERPA and Campus Security

August 6, 2007

This is a NACUA Notes from August 6, 2007, that discusses the issue of questionable student behavior and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act ("FERPA"). This publication answer…

Report of the Virginia Tech Review Panel

August 31, 2007

This is the report on the Virginia Tech shooting by a review panel appointed by the governor of Virginia. The report covers the following topics, physical security, privacy laws, mental health…

Loyola College's Online Tutorial on Academic Integrity and Scholarly Research

August 15, 2007 | A session at the ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session

Loyola's online tutorial, a requirement for next year's incoming class, is delivered as an animated cartoon that introduces students to a core value of the college-the importance of aca…

Keeping Pace with the Net Generation: A Student Affairs Perspective

August 16, 2007 | A session at the ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session

The student affairs division can be a valuable partner in developing a campus response to Net Generation issues. In addition to improving the “Net IQ” of staff on campus, student affairs can an…

University of Kansas adopts one-strike policy for copyright infringement

July 20, 2007

"In response to the RIAA and MPAA's campaign against file-sharing , the University of Kansas has announced a stringent policy for students found sharing copyrighted content on the un…

Raucous House Passes Student Aid Bill

July 12, 2007

The House of Representatives approved legislation Wednesday that would slash payments to lenders and use the savings to cut interest rates and increase grant funds for students. Although debate o…

Campus Accountability Proposals Evolve

June 27, 2007

"As Congress and the U.S. Education Department contemplate whether and how to force colleges to publish significantly more information about their performance, two associations of pu…

Report to the President on Issues Raised by the Virginia Tech Tragedy

June 13, 2007

The President directed top officials at the Departments of Education, Justice, and Health and Human Services to participate in a federal review of the broad questions raised by the shooting trage…