Since the inception of American higher
education in the 17th century, campus officials have stood
in loco parentis and have enjoyed wide latitude to control
the lives of students outside the classroom. College faculty
and administrators under in loco parentis benefited from
legal immunity in nearly all aspects of how they ran their
institutions, especially in regard to controlling out of
class activities and student behavior. The legal principles
used to ensure student safety on the college campus
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