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Re:Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin an... by ams6110 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:18PM (#15086070)
There is a huge new "student ethics" bureaucracy to handle that stuff that never used to exist. In the past, if you got drunk and did something you later regretted, that was your problem, as it is for any adult in the real world.
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Re:Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin an... by epaulson on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:31PM (#15086171)
That's not true at all. Universities used to be much more involved in student life. Read up on 'In Loco Parentis' in higher education.
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Re:Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin an... by ams6110 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:37PM (#15086207)
They were involved in a supervisory role. All male or all female dorms, mandatory on-campus housing, curfews, tightly controlled visitation and social events. Now, students get to do whatever they want and are only held to account after the fact. There is a huge ethics bureaucracy with committees conducting hearings, investigations, and various other CYA activities after the shit has hit the fan.
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Re:Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin an... by jackcosgrove on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:49PM (#15086305)
I think university laxity peaked in the 80s. Starting in the early 90s the PC movement began to police behavior as it had from the 60s on back.
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Re:Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin an... by scythe on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @08:34PM (#15086607)
"An ounce of prevention is cheaper than a pound of cure" comes to mind.
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Re:Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin an... by troc on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:34PM (#15086190)
Exactly and eerily true. At my university there this is a category 2 serious incident; like a fire, flood or epidemic. Any student admitted to emergency medical care due to inebriation, means the Serious Incident Officer is involved. How the SIO is supposed to find out I don't know.

I struggle to understand why relatively high-level management or SIO needs to be paid to get involved in what another 'adult' does out side of lectures/labs and campus.

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