A Difficult Decade: Continuing Freedom of Information Challenges for the United States and its Universities
AbstractThis article gives an overview of the rather vast changes that have occurred since the author's original article published in this journal in 1994 to Freedom of Information (FOI) in the United States on the national, state, and local level. It focusses particularly on some areas that universities must grapple with, including electronic records, access to (and pressure upon) university research, 9/11 and all its fallout, and FERPA. While such pressure is not specifically an FOI issue, it falls under the same umbrella of outside influences changing what universities can do, what they can teach and research, and what they can and cannot publish and share. |