UCF's fight to conceal fraternity wrongdoing grows lonelier with enactment of South Carolina disclosure law

Even by higher-education standards, the University of Central Florida is obsessively secretive, even with information that might help its students protect their own safety. UCF and its combative lawyers habitually resist disclosure of records that readily would be made public anywhere else, insisting that their interpretation of federal privacy law -- an interpretation shared by almost no… Continue reading UCF's fight to conceal fraternity wrongdoing grows lonelier with enactment of South Carolina disclosure law

DTH Publishing Corp. v. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In April 1996, the editor of the Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was denied entrance to Undergraduate Court proceedings because they were claimed to be closed meetings. The proceedings were in regard to the alleged theft of 1500 copies of the Carolina Review, a UNC-CH student magazine, in February.

Vermont New Voices (2017)

Gov. Phil Scott signed New Voices legislation into law in Vermont inThe Vermont Statutes OnlineTitle 16 : EducationChapter 003 : State Board Of EducationSubchapter 002 : Postsecondary Schools(Cite as: 16 V.S.A. § 180) § 180. Student rights-Freedom of expression(a) Findings.(1) The General Assembly finds that freedom of expression and freedom of the press are fundamental… Continue reading Vermont New Voices (2017)

Louisville university foundation secrecy

XXhttps://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/12/15/state-audit-criticizes-university-louisvilles-relationship-foundation?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=f38878fea8-DNU20161215&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-f38878fea8-198210581&goal=0_1fcbc04421-f38878fea8-198210581&mc_cid=f38878fea8&mc_eid=d12ccec324http://kycir.org/2016/09/02/u-of-l-foundation-unlawfully-withheld-public-records-attorney-general-rules/COURT ORDERS KY. UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION TO RELEASE DONOR NAMES(09/25/03 12:00am)KENTUCKY ?? A Kentucky judge ruled last week that the University of Louisville Foundation must disclose the names of all but 62 of its 45,000 previously unidentified donors.The Sept.http://www.splc.org/article/2003/09/court-orders-ky-university-foundation-to-release-donor-namesJUDGE ORDERS KY. UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION TO RELEASE CORPORATE DONOR RECORDS(12/09/04 12:00am)KENTUCKY -- The University of Louisville Foundation has been ordered… Continue reading Louisville university foundation secrecy