Pls Comment: Individual vs. Institutional Rights and Responsibilities

In determining, encouraging, or enforcing new standards of appropriate behavior, what are important differences between individual rights and responsibilities vs. institutional rights and responsibilities?

How, if at all, does “in loco parentis” apply to what a student who lives in a campus dorm writes in a blog that resides on a commercial server? The college or university probably has no direct control of the blog at all, but might have control of the student’s access to the Internet.

Pls Comment: New Professional/Personal/Political Boundaries

What, then, _are_ the ideal “boundaries” that should exist between “the professional,” “the personal” and “the political”?

To what extent should faculty members’ outside-the-classroom, off-campus experience and beliefs in “relevant” areas be acknowledged or discussed with students? How/where?

Pls Comment: New Definitions of Appropriate Behavior

To what extent must we all simply accept emerging new patterns of speech and behavior on the Internet?

To what extent can and should anyone guide or control these patterns?

Is “harassment” online different from “harassment” on campus or elsewhere?

Pls Comment: New Technologies, New Boundaries, New Connections

What are the new challenges and opportunities provided by the rapidly emerging computer technology options for "blogging,” “podcasting,” and other new forms of telecommunications, information exchange, and social networking?

Where are the lines between personal blogging, political blogging, and course-related blogging?