1999 • $25.00 • 256 pp • paper • ISBN-10: 0-89089-675-5 • ISBN: 978-0-89089-675-4 • LCCN 99-60461
Tags: Current Affairs, Education, Education Law, Risk Management
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The past decades have seen an alarming increase in campus crime, alcohol abuse by college students, hazing and other risky student activities. There is a growing awareness of the need to make safer college campuses. While hazards to students have been increasing, the relationships between students and their universities have been growing more distant. This rise in danger and loss of community on college campuses has been inadvertently facilitated by legal rules. The legal protections for colleges crafted by courts backfired: legal rules designed to protect colleges from lawsuits instead encouraged colleges to become insular and avoid taking positive steps to protect student safety.
Bickel and Lake re-imagine the role of law in university/student relations. Picking up on recent court decisions and legislative initiatives, the authors describe a new legal paradigm for college safety — the facilitator university. The modern college is not a baby-sitter or custodian of students: but it is also not a mere bystander to student safety. The facilitator university balances the rights and responsibilities of students and institutions and envisions campuses which feature shared responsibility for student safety. This book shows how law can be a positive tool for improving both safety and community on modern campuses.
“This work is a significant contribution to the law of student safety… It reconciles the best advice of a university lawyer with the best instincts of an experienced student affairs administrator.” — Paul J. Ward, Arizona State University and Former President, National Association of College and University Attorneys; and Christine K. Wilkinson, Vice President for Student Affairs, Arizona State University
“By now it is probably obvious to college counselors and psychotherapists why this book will be immensely relevant and essential to their professional work. It contains valuable legal and historical information that can provide context and guidance in their direct work with student clients and it is a bright beacon that can inform and illuminate their consultation services with colleagues. I recommend it to readers unqualifiedly.” — Gerald Amada, PhD, Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2002
