A legal opinion from the National Labor Relations Board declares players at major private universities to be "employees," entitled to the protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Those rights include freedom from university "gag orders" and from heavy-handed monitoring of social media.
Before school and college officials can give notice that a potentially dangerous person is enrolled, they have to be aware themselves. But there's no standard protocol for notifying schools or college when one of their students is accused of a crime.
A Connecticut college student claims he was railroaded by a campus disciplinary board that expelled him for remarks about guns that he claimed were jokes. A judge threw out his claims -- but agreed that FERPA confidentiality should not have limited his access to key eyewitness statements.
After years in the crosshairs of image-sensitive college administrators, Northwest College's newspaper falls victim to budget cuts, leaving behind lingering suspicions of the college's true motives.
Nobody -- including University of Kansas disciplinarians -- knows where the First Amendment boundary lines are drawn in cyberspace, so the university can't be held liable even if it overreacted in expelling a student for insulting remarks about his ex-girlfriend on Twitter, a federal district court says.
"Activating girls' voices" was the advertised title of the gathering, a Saturday morning at a high school journalism workshop in Indiana. It was our public "coming-out party" after months of groundwork by our student fellows, a chance for our most-wanted audience -- high school girls -- to see what Active Voice is all about. Optimistically,… Continue reading Building a community: the Active Voice listening tour rolls on
A recent NLRB case brought by Northwestern University football players garnered attention on the sports pages, but its impact will be felt far more broadly and should improve journalists' access to employees at all private organizations, including colleges and universities.
Misapplying federal privacy law, education agencies have been withholding access to data when the data involves a small group of students, even where nothing about the data is matchable to a known individual. That should happen less frequently after a Louisiana court's favorable resolution of an unusual public-records lawsuit.
Northern Kentucky University has repeatedly insisted that the FERPA privacy statute forbids disclosure of any information about how it responds to students' claims of sexual assault, but a U.S. district judge has now sanctioned the university's legal counsel for over-reliance on FERPA to obstruct a student's Title IX lawsuit.
The editors and staff of Knight News at the University of Central Florida were presented Oct. 22 with the annual College Press Freedom Award, in recognition of their extraordinary determination in pursuing disclosure of public records in the face of brutal attacks by their university.