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Apr 30, 2024
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2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1
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EDU 7025 Higher Education Law
Lecture: 9 Lab: 0 Practica: 0 Total Credits: 9
This course introduces students to the legal, institutional, and political processes that shape education policy in the United States on the federal and state levels. Students develop an understanding of how statutory law, administrative law, and case law respond to and affect faculty, students, administrators, and trustees. Constitutional law, contracts, torts, civil rights statutes, executive orders, injunctions, specific performance, corporate and partnership law, law of agency, and laws on liability are studied as they apply to higher education. Topics include the legal governance of higher education, academic freedom, law and college faculty, law and college students, discrimination, harassment, and affirmative action in higher education.
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