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.

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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• Academic freedom
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