Introduction: Raiders of the Lost Archives

2014 ◽  
Vol 116 (12) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
John Thelin
Keyword(s):  
Special Section ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
University Campus ◽  
College And University ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
In Loco Parentis

This is an introductory essay for the special section on historical analysis since 1865 of in loco parentis as a legal, institutional, and social feature of the American college and university campus.

Toward a Global Intellectual History of “Minority”

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-324
Author(s):  
Roy Bar Sadeh ◽  
Lotte Houwink ten Cate
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Minority Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

Abstract The term minority is today applied to describe beleaguered, persecuted, and exiled people whose subordination is preserved or merely “tolerated” by majoritarian politics inherent to modern states. As this introduction indicates, however, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries minority politics became a rubric for sociopolitical emancipation, providing a framework for intellectuals in colonized Asia and Africa to question European powers' treatment of marginalized communities. Bar Sadeh and Houwink ten Cate contend that “minority” has unique value as an instrument for historical analysis that is restricted neither solely to minority-majority relations nor to debates about (political) representation. Instead, the authors propose a global intellectual history of “minority” as a concept and experience, which is explored in the essays compiled in this special section, “Minority Questions.” By examining the diverse genealogies of the concept of minority, the essays that follow provide a valuable contribution to efforts to redress historical wrongs, even as they offer a range of explanations for the enduring legacy and power of this multifaceted concept.

Expulsion Litigation and the Limits of in Loco Parentis, 1860-1960

2014 ◽  
Vol 116 (12) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Scott Gelber
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Due Process ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Student Rights ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Legal Traditions ◽  
In Loco Parentis ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Faculty And Administrators

Background/Context Legal scholars often contrast the litigiousness of contemporary American higher education with a bygone era characterized by near-absolute respect for academic authority. According to this account, a doctrine of “academic deference” insulated colleges until the 1960s, when campus protests and new federal regulations dramatically heightened the intensity of legal oversight. This study tests that conventional wisdom, and its underlying assumption about the origins of student rights, by analyzing expulsion suits during the 100 years before 1960. Purpose Faculty and administrators tend to question if external legal pressure can play a constructive role in debates about higher education. This predisposition tempts us to invoke an earlier era of in loco parentis in order to portray institutional autonomy as a time-honored source of academic achievement. By highlighting overlooked state statutes (especially regarding public institutions) and contractual obligations (especially regarding private institutions), this study examines whether the power to discipline students in loco parentis actually triumphed prior to the 1960s. Research Design The study presents a historical analysis of the 44 college expulsion cases that were reported between 1860 and 1960. Examination of reported decisions was supplemented by archival research regarding landmark cases. Conclusions/Recommendations This study concludes that courts regularly reinstated expelled students during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These cases indicate that the power to act in loco parentis was limited by a countervailing tradition that emphasized college access and compelled institutions to provide due process prior to dismissal. This early strain of decisions laid the groundwork for the more expansive view of student rights that emerged during the 20th century. This finding encourages faculty and administrators to recognize the legal traditions and student dissenters that helped to enshrine accessibility as a defining feature of American higher education.

scholarly journals Launching a saliva-based SARS-CoV-2 surveillance testing program on a university campus

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander J. Ehrenberg ◽  
Erica A. Moehle ◽  
Cara E. Brook ◽  
Andrew H. Doudna Cate ◽  
Lea B. Witkowsky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Period ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Clinical Implementation ◽  
Testing Program ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
College And University ◽  
Asymptomatic Individuals ◽  
The University ◽  
Study Participants

SummaryRegular surveillance testing of asymptomatic individuals for SARS-CoV-2 has played a vital role in SARS-CoV-2 outbreak prevention on college and university campuses. Here we describe the voluntary saliva testing program instituted at the University of California, Berkeley during an early period of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in 2020. The program was administered as a research study ahead of clinical implementation, enabling us to launch surveillance testing while continuing to optimize the assay. Results of both the testing protocol itself and the study participants’ experience show how the program succeeded in providing routine, robust testing capable of contributing to outbreak prevention within a campus community and offer strategies for encouraging participation and a sense of civic responsibility.

Institutionalizing in Loco Parentis after Gott v. Berea College (1913)

2014 ◽  
Vol 116 (12) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Loss
Keyword(s):  
Student Services ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Student Attrition ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Student Management ◽  
Berea College ◽  
Undergraduate Experience ◽  
In Loco Parentis ◽  
Definition Of

Background/Context The institutionalization of in loco parentis in the wake of Gott v. Berea College (1913) marked a major turning point in the evolution of student management theory and practice. Focusing on the crucial decade of the 1920s, when American higher education first became a mass enterprise, this study explores the interaction of ideas and institutions by retracing the constitutive relationship between in loco parentis and the development of student services and programs targeted to keeping students in school. Purpose/Objective Scholars have tended to think of in loco parentis as primarily a tool of social control used to discipline misbehaving students. This study offers a different interpretation by taking seriously the doctrine's basic terms—namely, administrators’ and faculties’ role as “parents” and students’ role as “children”—and by highlighting the enduring institutional transformations created in the 1920s to help reduce student attrition. Research Design This study offers a historical analysis of the changing meanings and widening jurisdiction of in loco parentis during the 1920s. Conclusions/Recommendations This study finds that changes in the legal definition of in loco parentis following Gott v. Berea College (1913) triggered a revolution in student services that helped lay the foundation for the creation of the modern undergraduate experience and for the education of the whole student.

Introduction Hospitality: Imagining the Stranger

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 515-521
Author(s):  
Christopher Yates
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Concrete Experience ◽  
The Stranger

AbstractThis introductory essay sets forth the meaning of hospitality as a matter of philosophical reflection ever wedded to concrete experience. Drawing upon approaches from recent work in phenomenology, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and hermeneutics, the event or scene of encounter with the stranger or other is positioned as a moment of profound interrogation and imagination. The introduction to this special section of articles on hospitality is set forth as an invitation to join in the renewal of this longstanding interdisciplinary issue for our time.

scholarly journals Does the region still have relevance? (Re)considering "regional" political ecology

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Innisfree McKinnon ◽  
Colleen C. Hiner
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Analytical Work ◽  
Introductory Paper

Although the field of political ecology began as fundamentally regional, a clear, coherent regional political ecology approach has failed to emerge. This introductory essay frames a collection of articles compiled to take up the idea of pursuing a specifically regional political ecology, discussing both the problematic and the beneficial aspects of regions and regional approaches. In this introduction, we discuss the strengths and the weaknesses of using the region as a heuristic within the field. Our focus, and that of the articles introduced, is to consider what analytical work this concept can do, addressing the question: how and why how are regions useful within political ecology? Our intention is not to provide a guide to using the concept in political ecology but rather to highlight how regions are currently being used, and to reopen discussions of the utility of the concept for scholars explicitly working towards justice and sustainability in a variety of contexts. After describing the value of a using regional political ecology approach, we emphasize the work still yet to be done, prompting other scholars to consider regional political ecology approaches as they do the work that they do. Keywords: regional political ecology; region; political ecology; geographyThis is the introductory paper in Innisfree McKinnon and Colleen Hiner (eds.) 2015. "(Re)considering regional political ecology?", Special Section of the Journal of Political Ecology 23: 115-203.

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