This is a strong reflection of the educational direction that the program continues to head toward External Involvement in Discipline Cases - family members, legislators, attorneys and other significant persons within and outside of Pennsylvania continues to involve themselves in campus discipline proceedings. We believe this is a direct reflection of the types of cases that we are handling. When this happens, we allow attorneys to be present and accused students increasingly utilize this privilege. It is no surprise that we are finding when a case may separate a student, parents become much more intrusive. Emotional and Psychological Problems - students continue to bring more emotional problems with them to campus.
Many new students lack the skills needed to adapt to challenging or new situations.
This has created more roommate conflicts and disruptive situations. The lack of emotional stability in students is manifesting in more threatening behaviors to self and others. We are hearing anecdotally, that these behaviors are being more frequently exhibited in the classroom. Labor Intensive - as the educational aspect of the program increases our deeper contact with students we will initiate more of a workload. For example, in 1998-99 we managed 1,144 discipline cases.