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Nguyen v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Court Case

Full Title:

Dzung Duy Nguyen v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology & others

Excerpt:

This court concluded that a university has a special relationship with a student and a corresponding duty to take reasonable measures to prevent his or her suicide in circumstances where a university has actual knowledge of a student’s suicide attempt that occurred while enrolled at the university or recently before matriculation, or of a student’s stated plans or intentions to commit suicide, and that such reasonable measures will include initiating the university’s suicide prevention protocol if it has developed such a protocol and, if not, to contact the appropriate officials at the university empowered to assist the student in obtaining clinical care from medical professionals or, if the student refuses such care, to notify the student’s emergency contact.

Source Citation:

Nguyen v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2018. 479 Mass. 436 (Mass. 2017)

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479 Mass. 436. 2018. "Nguyen v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Court Case." History of Higher Education. https://higheredhistory.gmu.edu/primary-sources/nguyen-v-massachusetts-institute-of-technology-court-case/