ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on legal problems that may arise after a student has been duly admitted and enrolled. It considers legal issues that have arisen over academic concerns, such as challenging the quality of teaching, getting credit for courses, being eligible to receive degrees, and being dismissed for poor scholarship. After matriculating, students find themselves in two kinds of roles: first, they are scholars, with concerns about academic matters; and second, they are persons, with interests in how they are treated generally as human beings. Setting academic standards is the right, and indeed a principal responsibility, of the academic officers of an institution. Instances of judicial review of academic dismissal decisions do occur sometimes, under the exceptions relating to arbitrary and capricious actions or those taken in bad faith. Every institution should have written policies regarding grading procedures, including the significant issues of academic honesty and the rights and responsibilities of students, faculty, and administration.
