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2001

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Students And Due Process In Higher Education: Of Interests And Procedures, Fernand N. Dutile Jan 2001

Students And Due Process In Higher Education: Of Interests And Procedures, Fernand N. Dutile

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In the process of enforcing their academic and disciplinary standards, colleges and universities increasingly find themselves confronting the possibility and even the reality of litigation. At public institutions, of course, the strictures of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment loom especially large. Meeting the complex needs of their institutions and students as well as the expectations of American courts presents an ongoing and daunting challenge to higher education personnel.

For both internal and external reasons, institutional dealings with aberrant students in public higher education has, over the years, developed on a dual track. Courts themselves have generally treated …