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Courts Continue to Give Colleges Discretion in Academic Dismissals Based on Failure to Meet Professional Standards  


Author:  Ralph Gerstein.; Lois Gerstein.


Source: Volume 19, Number 01, Fall 2017 , pp.11-14(4)




Campus Safety & Student Development

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Abstract: 

This article reviews a number of cases in which the courts have upheld the dismissal of students for failing to meet professional standards of conduct, including threatening Facebook postings and plagiarism. Cases include Keefe v. Adams et al., 840 F.3d 523 and Richards v. Univ. of Alaska, 370 P.3d 603; legal issues included whether a school could dismiss a student for conduct off campus (on a public social network unrelated to any school-hosted forum) without violating the student’s First Amendment speech rights; and whether a graduate student’s failure to respond to faculty feedback was sufficient cause for dismissal even though a charge of plagiarism had been resolved through the student’s submission of a remediation paper.

Keywords: Facebook; Academic Impairment

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