Key Legal Issues College Faculty Need to Know, with Kent Kauffman

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.

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Quotes from the episode

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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Resources

• Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues Faculty Need to Know, by Kent Kauffman (rowman.com/ISBN/9781538197295/Navigating-Chopp…)

• Force majeure clause (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_majeure)

• Academic freedom (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_freedom)

• Work for hire (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire)

• Episode 411: Copyright for the Rest of Us, with Thomas Tobin (teachinginhighered.com/411)

• Copyright Act of 1976 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1976)

• Slow Horses Season 2 (imdb.com/title/tt5875444)

• Slow Horses (imdb.com/title/tt5875444)

• Shrinking (imdb.com/title/tt15677150)

• All Creatures Great and Small (imdb.com/title/tt10590066)

• Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast (imdb.com/title/tt16296044)

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