Academic Administrators often encounter challenging situations, sometimes even facing lawsuits and legal threats from their faculty. This workshop offers a practical and engaging approach to analyzing case studies, which include:
- Addressing instances where a faculty member disregards institutional policies on pronoun use or information sharing.
- Managing unfounded complaints lodged against colleagues by insubordinate faculty members. Is disciplinary action warranted?
- Exploring the feasibility of accommodating remote instruction as a viable workplace alternative when faculty members no longer prefer in-person teaching.
This workshop can be tailored to explore topics including:
- Legal basics that apply to college administration
- Title IX implications
- Employee discipline and termination
- Academic freedom and the First Amendment
- Sexual misconduct law and expectations
- Recommended policy review practices
- Syllabus review recommendations
- Appropriate complaint response
- Preventive law techniques
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand various laws that are often implicated in day-to-day academic administration
- Discuss basic principles of employee legal rights related to discipline and requests for accommodation
- Identify risks in their policies and procedures related to potential legal issues
- How to more effectively head-off potential conflicts before they turn contentious