Re: use of student materials

On 08/11/98, Gary Newhouse <garyn[_at_]oakton.edu> wrote:
>
> I have an instructor who wishes to use student essays from his past
> classes in a coursepack (24 copies) along with "pro" materials from
> the likes of Hemingway, Angelou and Orwell. We can get the copyright
> permissions from publishers, but what about the student papers? I
> assume we need permissions for these also, what would be the best
> route if we cannot find a student author from his past? Or is he OK
> in using these without permission? (I doubt that very much.)

Gary,

We recently had such a situation on our campus -- University of Nebraska -- Lincoln. A faculty member posted a former student's papers on his website and continued to do so after the former student protested. The faculty member is now a former faculty member.

Kent Hendrickson
<khendric[_at_]unlnotes01.unl.edu> Received on Wed Aug 19 1998 - 20:52:40 GMT