A Working guide for:

• Judicial Affairs & Conduct Officers
  
  
• Deans of Students & Associate or
  Assistant Deans & Vice Presidents
  
  
• Student Affairs & Development Officers
  
  
• College & University Counsel
  
  
• Faculty & administrative personnel involved in
  student development & preparatory programs
  

An insight to ethical & legal paradoxes arising in student conduct settings

   The book examines the history and current practice of conduct resolution in higher education and offers alternative practices and a framework for building a practice of intention, based upon ethics, law, intuition and the alternative ideas that can support them.



A comprehensive reference designed to assist practitioners

   . . . and those who prepare them, in understanding the balance that must exist between legal, developmental and ethical concerns arising from student conduct resolution. It argues for the creation of an intentional practice that considers the questions of why and how we work with students in preparing them to accept and to face responsibilities of individual behavior in a college community.

   This book suggests practitioners must consider their own values as well as those of their institutions and the communities arising from the campus setting. In reconciling these values and beliefs, individuals should evolve a philosophy and program that resolves paradoxes arising from competing values & goals.


Valuable information for a wide range of practitioners

   The book is of interest to those concerned with: the history of conduct resolution, current practices, the legal basis for practice and the possible alternatives to traditional practices.

   This is an important book for those beginning degree studies in higher education and student development; recent graduates and early practitioners of conduct resolution and those who supervise, teach and advise such practitioners.

   The book is useful in reviewing one's practice and in considering alternatives to traditional practice, bringing law, philosophy, ethics and development into closer focus for readers.


About the Authors

   A distinguished panel of authors in this subject area assures the reader a balanced presentation:

Bill Fischer, Assoc. Dean of Student Life & Dir. of Student Conduct,
Johnson & Wales University.

Donald D. Gehring, Prof. Emeritus, Bowling Green State University.

Nancy Giacomini, Conflict Connections, Inc.

Mary Howard-Hamilton, Assoc. Dean for Graduate Studies and Assoc. Prof. in Higher Education, Indiana University.

Kandace Hinton, Assist. Professor, Higher Education Leadership Program, Indiana University.

Elizabeth Kiss, Director Of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University.

James Lancaster, Assist. Prof., Human Development and Psychological Counseling Department, Appalachian State University.

John Wesley Lowery, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Higher Education and Student Affairs Program in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policies at the University of South Carolina.

Gary Pavela, Director Of Judicial Programs and Student Ethical Development, University of Maryland at College Park.

Lori Patton, Visiting Asst. Prof. and Coordinator of Masters Program in Higher Education and Student Affairs, Indiana University.

Tom Sebok, Director of the Ombuds Office, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder.

Diane Waryold, Assist. Prof. Of Human Development and Psychological Counseling.

Table of Contents

I.    The Challenges of our Current Practice

II.   Revisiting the History of Modern Conduct Practice

III.  The Intersection of Law and Alternative Practice:
        Current Due Process Requirements

IV.  Reframing our Perspectives: New Practices and
        an Alternative Future
V.   Managing Student Conduct & Conflict Through Mediation
        and other Alternative Dispute Resolution Processes

VI.  Restorative Justice on Campus: Repairing Harm and
        Building Community
VII. Student Development and Student Conduct Practice

VIII The Courage to Teach, Practice and Learn: Student Affairs Staff
        as Moral Educators

IX.  Student Ethical Development and the Power of Friendship

X.   Exercising Power with Wisdom: Principles for
         Intentional Practice


Appendices:
I.     Selected On-line Resources

II.    Applying the Power of Association on Campus:
        A Model Code of Academic Integrity

III.   Model Code of Student Conduct Developmental Theories

IV.  Model Code of Student Conduct

V.   Developmental Theories