Just about every department chair and dean, certainly every provost and president, and an ever-increasing number of faculty find themselves asking - or being asked - such questions as: "Do we need to talk to our lawyer about this?"; "What do the attorneys say?"; and "Why didn't you get the lawyers involved before now?". Dealing with issues ranging from academic freedom to job security and faculty discipline, lawyers, legal requirements and lawsuits has become an established part of the apparatus of American higher education. This volume was written to help faculty and administrators navigate critical legal issues and avoid potential legal pitfalls. Drawing on his experience as university counsel, administrator and teacher at a number of institutions, Steven G. Poskanzer explains the law as it pertains to faculty activities both inside and outside the academy, including faculty roles as scholars, teachers, and members of institutional communities, as well as employees and public citizens. In each of these areas, he expands his discussion of cases and decisions to set out his own views both on the current status of the law and how it is likely to evolve.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Higher Education Law: The Faculty . . . describ[es] clearly, for both lawyers and non-lawyers, the central legal principles governing the activities of faculty and the routine academic affairs of colleges and universities. The major sections of the book cover the law relating to faculty as scholars, teachers, institutional citizens, public citizens, and employees. This book achieves the preventive law goals both of assisting faculty and administrators to avoid legal problems and of helping them to understand when they need legal counsel . . . The chapter on scholarship provides an excellent overview of the law regarding both the ownership and exploitation of faculty work, including copyrights and patents and the dissemination of and access to scholarly work. The chapter on faculty as employees includes a lengthy overview of nondiscrimination law that clearly explains a complex and layered area of law. This section should, in particular, be mandatory reading for all graduate students, professors, and administrators.
-Neil W. Hamilton, Academe Welcome, useful and readable.
-David Palfreyman, Education and the Law An interesting, informative, and very useful book that works both as a teaching tool and as a guide to understanding the legal land mines that are part and parcel of what we as faculty believe we do.
-Benjamin Baez, Journal of Higher Education
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 30 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-6748-4 (9780801867484)
DOI
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Steven G. Poskanzer is vice provost of the State University of New York.
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Lay of the Land
Chapter 3. Faculty Scholarship
Chapter 4. Faculty in the Classroom
Chapter 5. Faculty as Institutional CItizens
Chapter 6. Faculty as Public Citizens
Chapter 7. Faculty as Employees
Chapter 8. Final Thoughts on Faculty and the Law
