October 15, 2007

Building an Effective Student and Academic Affairs Partnership
By Bruce Colwell
My chapter on academic and student affairs collaboration in the 2006 Jossey-Bass monograph The Small College Dean begins with this statement: The successful small college dean of students must develop and maintain an effective partnership between student and academic affairs, built upon a shared educational philosophy, a mutual commitment to collaboration, and a common linking of issues and tasks.

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On-Campus Report Capsules
When we read the OrlandoSentinel.com story this morning about the 23 Florida State athletes who are accused of cheating, we were reminded of the excellent article titled “Everybody Does It: Academic cheating is at an all-time high. Can anything be done to stop it?" that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on September 9.

“I Saw That Poor Student Being Tasered in Florida …” Responding to Questions about Campus Security
By Catherine Stover and Raymond Thrower
During the end of September, it seemed as though you couldn’t turn on the TV without seeing University of Florida student Andrew Meyer writhing in pain after campus police pointed a Taser at him. We asked Raymond Thrower, director of safety and security at Gustavus Adolphus College and president of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, to tell us how he responds to questions about Tasers on his campus.

New Efforts to Reduce Alcohol Abuse in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Carolina
By Catherine Stover
“Alcohol abuse is the No. 1 health and safety problem on every college campus. I don’t even know what would be No. 2,” University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley said in a recent New York Times piece. “Just about every unpleasant incident, every crime, involves alcohol abuse by the victim or the perpetrator. The question is, what do you do that’s effective to prevent it?”

Who Has the Responsibility for the Lives of Students?
By Art Sandeen and Margaret Barr
As the tragic incident at Virginia Tech has illustrated, determining who has responsibility for the lives of students is a complex and important issue. The concept of in loco parentis does not apply to all situations. Changing laws, attitudes, demographics, and relationships all contribute to the complexity of the answer to questions about who has responsibility for the lives and welfare of students.