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Abstract: 

The editors review recent court decisions directly affecting college and university administration, discipline, and safety: Drug screening of college students ruled permissible under the Fourth Amendment where the academic program has safety requirements, a professor is dismissed after making statements in class that constitute a threat to safety, a varsity football player expelled from the team because of academic fraud sues the university, claiming that the sanction destroyed his chances for a lucrative professional career, a hearing impaired student claims that Creighton University’s refusal to allow or provide accommodations for his disability deprived him of an opportunity to further his medical education, a court finds that a university professor’s negative comments on the website of nonprofit group did not result in a violation of the group’s first amendment rights.

Keywords: Barrett v. Claycomb; Bd. of Education of Independent Sch. Dist. No. 92, Pottawatomie County v. Earls; Quint v. Univ. of Oregon; McAdoo v. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Argenyi v. Creighton Univ.; Garcia v. SUNY Health Sciences Center of Brook

Affiliations:  1: Co-Editor; 2: Co-Editor.