Funding Student Organizations in Colleges and Universities: An Examination of Constitutional Requirements
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2008
Publication Title
West's Education Law Reporter
Keywords
Student Organizations
Abstract
The focus of this article is an examination of public university funding of student organizations, particularly where that funding is tied to a student vote or referendum. The earliest Supreme Court venture into student funding occurred in Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of University of Virginia where although not infolving a referendum, the funding decision required a student government vote and the Court made the seminal determination that university funding for student organizations constituted a limited public forum and, as a result, funding had to be provided on a viewpoint-neutral basis. In Rosenberger, the Court held that a university could not refuse to fund a religious student organization's publication that used a religious viewpoint to examine social and political issues.
Repository Citation
Ralph D. Mawdsley, Funding Student Organizations in Colleges and Universities: An Examination of Constitutional Requirements, 234 Education Law Reporter 1 (2008)
Volume
234
