U. of Tulsa administrator threatens to punish student journalists for investigating student’s punishment over Facebook posts

When George “Trey” Barnett was suspended from the University of Tulsa without a disciplinary hearing for violating the institution’s harassment policy and for sharing information about his pending disciplinary case, he asked the student newspaper to investigate.

University System of Georgia’s delay on public records request was justified, judge rules

The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia’s actions were “substantially justified” when it failed to provide a student journalist a timeline indicating when his public records request would be fulfilled and for delaying the delivery of the records, a county court ruled last week.

Student journalists fear plan will allow administration to control content

Los Angeles City College (LACC) administrators and the school's student newspaper adviser and staff are at odds over a proposed plan to incorporate the newspaper's budget into the student activities department, a move student journalists fear would give administrators an opening to exercise prior review over the contents of the paper.