In March of 2014, someone posed the following question, which happens to be the exact scenario I need answered now. The person's email is no longer active and I would like to pose the question again. Thank you.
Hello All! I am working to develop policy for our enrolled minors. We have full-time undergraduate students enrolled as young as 16 years old. Because of this we are hesitant to exclude them from the policy addressing minors on campus generally, but some of the minimum conduct requirements we had hoped to include in the policy (i.e. no one-on-one contact) would hinder our faculty and staff from effectively doing their job when dealing with an enrolled minor student; we are thinking in terms of areas such as student conduct and residential life, and times when Faculty members meet with a minor student about their coursework. Are we overthinking this? I would love some guidance on how you have chosen to handle minors enrolled as full-time students at your institutions. Do you require areas such as student conduct and residential life to put procedures and conduct requirements in place (internally) since these are areas where a staff member may meet with an enrolled minor student one-on-one as a normal course of business? I have not been able to find any guidance on this in all my research. Most of what I have read suggests these types of things for camps and/or clinics that involve non-matriculating minors. Your insight (and any documents you may have) would be much appreciated! Pilar Hays, Esq. Policy Coordinator Office of Academic Affairs
