For 15 years, until 2013, the Arizona Board of Regents collected fees from university students in the state on behalf of the Arizona Students' Association, funds that supported the group's work. But that year, the board -- aggravated by the association's active lobbying for a ballot initiative that would have boosted education funding -- first suspended collection of the student fees, and then (in response to criticism that it had acted politically) said it would collect fees only from students who opted to pay them. In so doing, members of the Arizona board seemingly violated the student association's First Amendment rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday.

June 2, 2016 ・ From Inside Higher Ed