"Normally the government doesn't tell schools how to regulate student behaviour," says Alison Johnson, a history professor at Harvard who leads a committee on sexual-assault policies.
-To what extent should the government be involved in students' social lives at school (i.e., the rules of classroom conduct, the dress code, and other laws that regulate student behavior)?
I have asked the Department of Education, which regulates student privacy laws, why the N.C.A.A. is not bound by those laws, even though they are a university-run organization.
As president, a post he held until his retirement in 1987, Hesburgh liberalized the rules regulating student life, promoted academic freedom, and worked toward making Notre Dame one of the top universities in the country, doubling its enrollment and greatly increasing its endowment.
"It sort of becomes a Hobson's choice -- whether we are going to sacrifice free speech, or privacy, when attempting to regulate what students access in schools," he said.
Keep in mind that schools often want to regulate what students read, and the books they require by no means represent every kind of reading material available.
NEW HAVEN — For administrators at Yale and Harvard, it is a nightmare to be confronted every other fall: how to best regulate the student tailgate area at the alcohol-fueled, tradition-bound spectacle known reverently as the Game.
The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, passed in March, promises to regulate the student loan industry by omitting private lenders in hopes of saving the government and the taxpayer money.
From this perspective, some professors are unusually effective in regulating some students' positive affect and memory and are rewarded with high teaching evaluations.
This study aims to explore the behavioral patterns of co-regulation to gain insight into how students regulate each other.
