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Many persons graciously provided assistance to us in the preparation of The Law of Higher Education, Sixth Edition, Student Version. We are grateful for each person and each contribution listed below, and for all other support and encouragement that we received along the way.

We are grateful to colleagues whom we invited to update sections of the manuscript because of their special expertise. The work of our contributors is identified by a footnote reference at the beginning of each section that they revised.

Randolph M. Goodman and J. Barclay Collins, partners at K&L Gates, LLP in Washington, DC, assisted by Kristin A.M. Hoeberlein, an associate at the firm, and Alexander M. Goodman, a law student at University College London, revised and updated all of the sections on tax law in the Sixth Edition. Elizabeth Minott, Senior Associate General Counsel at Rutgers University, revised and updated the subsection on laws regulating computer networks in Chapter 13 of the Sixth Edition. Nikaela Jacko Redd. Esq. of Silver Spring, MD, edited and updated Chapter 12 of the Sixth Edition, a portion of which appears in this Student Version.

Various colleagues reviewed sections of the sixth edition manuscript, providing helpful feedback on matters within their expertise and good wishes for the project: Steven J. McDonald, general counsel, Rhode Island School of Design; Michael A. Olivas, the William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Houston and former Interim President of the University of Houston Downtown; Jean McDonald-Rash, Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management, Rutgers University; and Frank Fernandez, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Houston.

Our research assistants provided valuable help with the manuscript: Matthew Beddingfield, Meg Collins, Maggie Cooney, and Alexandra Popovnak assisted Jacob, who sends special thanks to Vinay Harpalani, Nathan A. Kottkamp, Colin P. McCarthy, and Nicole Prieto for their help and contributions to Chapter 14 of the full 6th Edition, which are noted as they appear in that chapter. Edward Phillips assisted Neal.

Barbara Kaplin typed manuscript inserts and maintained files as needed, and Joann Segarra at Rutgers University created several of the figures used throughout the book.

Gary Pavela kept us well supplied with issues of The Pavela Report. We are also grateful for the excellent work of Caroline Maria Vincent, who managed the entire production process, Richard Walshe, the copy editor, and the group at Cape Cod Compositors, Inc., who created the indexes. Their attention to detail and their helpful suggestions played an important role in readying the manuscript for publication.

The National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) has hosted a website for several years on which we could post updates to the Fifth Edition and Student Version, and now the Sixth Edition and its progeny. The website also contains our Instructor's Manual for faculty who adopted either the treatise or the Student Version as a classroom text. NACUA and its CEO, Kathleen Curry Santora, have supported our work in countless ways for over a decade, and we are most grateful to Kathleen and her staff for their support and encouragement. NACUA publications, particularly The Journal of College and University Law and NACUANotes, also provided us with important information and guidance in the development of most sections of the Sixth Edition.

Our spouses and families once again tolerated the years of intrusion that successive editions of “the book” have imposed on our personal lives. They encouraged us when this sixth edition seemed too overwhelming to ever end. And they looked forward (usually patiently) to the time when the sixth edition would finally be finished—and we would get a little breathing space before any of us dare mention the forbidden words “seventh edition.”