Show notes
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
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.
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?
Students in public institutions have academic freedom too.
Do my teaching materials belong to me, or do they belong to my employer?
Resources
- Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues Faculty Need to Know, by Kent Kauffman
- Force majeure clause
- Academic freedom
- Work for hire
- Episode 411: Copyright for the Rest of Us, with Thomas Tobin
- Copyright Act of 1976
- Slow Horses Season 2
- Slow Horses
- Shrinking
- All Creatures Great and Small
- Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast