This course examines the legal issues associated with laws that impact higher education. Candidates will learn how executive orders, judicial rulings, and legislative mandates have served to shape the mission and function of higher education. Candidates will also survey basic elements of governance structures in higher education as they relate to the law of higher education. The course will include an examination of how master plans, legislative influence, local control, and structure differ by state. The course also examines legal problems and issues as they affect candidates, faculty members, and administrators in American colleges and universities. Distinctions in the legal environments of public, private, and church-related institutions are made. Emphasis is placed on constitutional issues, contract law, federal and state regulation, liability, faculty and staff employment and community relationships.
EDHR-881 : HRD: Th, Found, & Principles
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