Questions tagged [state-university]
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Can publicly funded universities create areas designated for students of certain ethnicities only?
Say a publicly funded university creates dedicated facilities, spaces and support for students of a particular ethnicity. They have signs like this:
This is a Designated Area for <ethnicity name&...
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Can I legally compell a student to go back to their home country?
Suppose that I am the owner of a fully-owned private company in the USA. I am providing a full scholarship to a student from country X to go to the USA to do a 4-year PhD.
Can I add a clause to the ...
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Is the opportunity and/or potential to get tenure in the Texas State university system contractable?
According to this news item of March 30, 2023 about Texas Senate Bill 18 - Public universities could no longer offer tenure for professors under Texas Senate bill | TPR - public universities in Texas ...
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Is omitting a previous university transcript illegal?
One of my friends did really badly in her first attempt at a university in Canada and subsequently dropped out.
She went to another university in Europe and spent a year there.
She then applied to ...
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Dormitory Firearm Posession at Louisiana Public School
I'm a student at a public university in Louisiana, and I was reading up on the state's firearm law in order to be sure I could legally keep such a weapon for defense in my apartment, which is ...
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Public Institution Food Services: Do nonreligious students without severe allergies have a right to gluten-free/kosher/halal options? (California)
To what extent may a public institution which offers meals for religious convention or for dietary restrictions (kosher/halal/gluten-free) deny other students these meal options?
If a student requests ...
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Is any of the free law programs in Germany arranged or attendable online?
This question arose out of the answer given by Volker Siegel to this question.
Is it possible to establish admission online to without personal attendance or attend online after regular admission?
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The university issued a pay check less than its offer letter. What is one to do?
Suppose that an international grad student at one of the University of California campuses got an offer letter:
Congratulations! On behalf of the Committee on Admissions and Awards
and the Graduate ...
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Plagiarism on an Affidavit?
Is there such thing as plagiarism on an Affidavit? In other words if my reasoning for a certain issue is best worded by an online source, can I simply copy the source and slightly customize it to my ...
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Is showing college material illegal?
My question is the title, the rest is just an explanation. I'm a student at Penn State University in the US. Is it illegal for me to show course material to a public audience like on my YouTube ...
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Is a retroactive patent infringement possible?
A software researcher (from an American university) published a new method/algorithm and then an implementation of it, licensed under the MIT license. I wrote to him to ask if he had filed a patent or ...
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Does use of university servers give them ownership over IP?
I'm currently pursuing my undergrad at an Indian university. I (and a few of my batchmates) have created a website in our free time, for which we intend to apply for a patent. The website was ...
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Can a college in Georgia be legally required to let you have equal opportunity to take an exam when their required 3rd party software causes issues?
Circumstances: I am a Sophomore at a University System of Georgia college, and am required to take Spanish for my degree. The professor requires students to purchase a license to 3rd party software in ...
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Do public colleges in the US have to follow education laws on misrepresentation (34 CFR § 668.71-75)?
The registrar at a public college in the US claims that a lecture course is "substantially equivalent" to a course that was to be held in a lab to teach lab skills. They also claim that ...
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Free speech and elected positions
Suppose Jack is a student at a public university with a student senate. Senators are paid by the university. The senate elects one of its members to be senate president, and the senate president is ...
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