University-Student Relationships
Constitutional Freedoms and Privileges on the College Campus
At one time, the relationship between student and college was largely taken for granted or subsumed under a nonspecific notion of in loco parentis in which the college was the principal determiner of the educational environment. Since 1960, however, this relationship has changed, and today these multifaceted relationships, described as financial, contractual, and constitutional, take the form of rights defined by the Constitution or by the student as consumer. Litigation involving the constitutional relationship moved from an emphasis on individual rights in the 1960s and 1970s to First Amendment rights of association and freedom of religion as they affect student…
