Joanna Williams, author of Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity, says students' closer relationship with managers has not always been healthy, particularly when it comes to free speech and imposing the Prevent legislation, designed to deter radicalisation.
Students close out the spring semester with Bacchanalia, an outdoor music festival hosted by the senior class.
One eerie exercise focused on heightening awareness, with students closing their eyes and trying to sense danger lurking nearby.
Another free school, with 200 Muslim students, closed down its prayer room – forcing pupils to pray on Friday in the local parks.
Ms. Shepard wrote the first chapter in November, having a character named Professor Davenport turn up mysteriously murdered during office hours at Underhill College, where as one of Ms. Shepard's other characters put it, "All the students here are close with their professors".
Students with close relatives serving in the military were no more likely to suffer mental health problems than students with no relatives on active duty, the team found.
Another valedictorian season has come to a close, with students throughout the region having proudly stepped up to the podium to deliver their graduation speeches and receive the accolades that come from being the highest academic performer in their school.
With 9,000 students and close links with employers, it has been reorganised by a vice-chancellor who has got rid of 160 staff, replaced her senior management team, consolidated the institution onto two campuses instead of three and erected a swish £30m building for students that bristles with music and video production studios.
A sea of uniformed students with close-cropped black hair (no dyed hair is allowed) sang the national anthem, recited a Buddhist incantation and repeated a pledge to sacrifice their lives for the nation, love the king and "not cause any trouble".
I know she's just my teacher and that there's no good reason I should feel like this when she appears close with other students, but it seems to be affecting me more and more, and I'm unsure what to do.
