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In the six years since publication of the fifth edition and then its updates, many new and newly complex legal concerns have arisen on America's campuses—from the ever-greater and more complex implications of the explosion in social media on faculty and student conduct and rights, to the continuing challenges to affirmative action in admissions and financial aid, to the membership practices of student religious organizations in the context of institutions' nondiscrimination policies, to the clash between faculty and “institutional” academic freedom, to the rights of intercollegiate athletes. Indeed, it is difficult to identify any other entities—including large corporations and government agencies—that are subject to as great an array of legal requirements as colleges and universities are. To serve the needs occasioned by this continual growth of the law, this Student Version of LHE 6th retains the material of continuing legal currency from the 5th Edition of LHE, that is within the parameters we have set out above. We reorganized and re-edited this material to accommodate the deletion of old and the addition of new developments and to maximize clarity and accessibility. To this base, we added considerable new material: more than one-third of the material in the 12 chapters of the Student Version did not appear in earlier editions of The Law of Higher Education. This new material integrates pertinent new developments and insights regarding topics in the earlier editions and introduces numerous new topics and issues not covered in earlier editions.

Like the full 6th Edition, this Student Version covers all of nonprofit postsecondary education—from the large state university to the small private liberal arts college, from the graduate and professional school to the community college and vocational and technical institution, and from the traditional campus-based program to the innovative off-campus or multistate program, and to distance learning as well. The Student Version also reflects the same perspective as the full 6th Edition and earlier editions on the intersection of law and education. As described in the preface to the 1st Edition:

The law has arrived on the campus. Sometimes it has been a beacon, at other times a blanket of ground fog. But even in its murkiness, the law has not come “on little cat feet,” like Carl Sandburg's “Fog”; nor has it sat silently on its haunches; nor will it soon move on. It has come noisily and sometimes has stumbled. And even in its imperfections, the law has spoken forcefully and meaningfully to the higher education community and will continue to do so.