ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses a number of matters concerning student recruitment, admissions, and tuition which may have legal ramifications for educational institutions and for educators personally. The aggrieved applicant claimed that the medical school’s bulletin amounted to an invitation to applicants to make an offer to be considered for admission based on the criteria for admissions stated in the bulletin. The legal concept that a contract between an applicant for admission and the institution may be generated from recruiters’ promises or statements in an institution’s catalog in the 1976 Steinberg case. Many laws and regulations requiring full disclosure of academic programs are said to be the result of certain recruitment practices of educational institutions. Business and financial aid officers of public and private institutions have much of the responsibility for handling such problems and for modifying the institution’s policies and procedures as new laws and judicial rulings appear.