Teaching in Higher Ed

Teaching in Higher Ed


Key Legal Issues College Faculty Need to Know

February 13, 2025

Kent Kauffman shares about his book, Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues Faculty Need to Know, on episode 557 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.


Quotes from the episode

Students in public institutions have academic freedom too.


Leave the things that you have full discretion on out of a syllabus. Put those things that allow you to show to your students that you care about clarity into a syllabus.

-Kent Kauffman


What have courts that have authority in your jurisdiction or the supreme court said about the rights faculty have in public institutions with academic freedom?

-Kent Kauffman


Students in public institutions have academic freedom too.

-Kent Kauffman


Do my teaching materials belong to me, or do they belong to my employer?

-Kent Kauffman



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