Higher Education Law

Policy and Perspectives

Klinton Alexander, Kern Alexander

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781317206101
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This fully revised and updated textbook weaves law into its historical, political, and sociological context, while providing clear explanation of the law as it applies to American colleges and universities. This text draws exclusively on federal and state cases emerging from campuses and includes helpful pedagogical elements--such as chapter outlines, questions for discussion, side bars, text boxes, research aids, and summation of law--to equip readers with the tools and knowledge to effectively respond in an environment of increasing litigation. Addressing a gap in the literature, this new edition provides a comprehensive and accessible understanding of the latest laws relevant to higher education and student affairs administrators.

New In This Edition:

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• Explanation and streamlining of old case law.

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• New cases throughout covering recent developments in: student loan debt, student safety, Internet speech, affirmative action, discrimination, Greek life, issues relating to new technology, non-faculty employees, campus police, and athletics.

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• Revised explanation on student and college costs.

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• Expanded examination of the idea of academic freedom

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Praise
• Higher Education Law
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• About the Authors
• 1 Nature of Law
• 2 Legal Structure of Higher Education
• 3 Religion
• 4 Student Fees and Tuition
• 5 Students and Parietal Rules: Living and Learning
• 6 Contractual Relationship between Student and University
• 7 Student Dismissals and Procedural Due Process of Law
• 8 Substantive Due Process: Liberty and Property Interests of Students in Grading and Dismissals
• 9 Student Speech, Expression, and Association
• 10 Free Speech and Electronic Communication
• 11 Student Press
• 12 Search and Seizure
• 13 Academic Freedom
• 14 Faculty Contracts, Tenure, and Collective Bargaining
• 15 Faculty and Due Process of Law
• 16 Speech in Public Institutions
• 17 Tort Liability
• 18 Defamation, Student Records, and the Federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act
• 19 Immunity from Liability of State Institutions
• 20 Liability and Immunity of Private Institutions
• 21 State Action at Private Colleges
• 22 Civil Rights Statutes: Gender, Race, and Religion
• 23 Racial Integration and Diversity
• 24 Intellectual Property
• Table of Cases
• Index