Higher Education Administration - A Guide to Legal, Ethical, and Practical Issues

Goonen and Blechman provide an analysis useful as a desk reference or as a text for practicing and prospective administrators and university counsel. They examine the legal points, ethical questions, and practical steps an administrator or university counsel should be aware of in dealing with some of the most frequently encountered issues in the administration of a college, university, or other postsecondary institution.

Each chapter targets a selected area of academic affairs, and the format includes four sections-legal parameters, ethical considerations, practical suggestions, and an illustrative case. Hiring issues, compensation and employment issues, promotion and tenure, terminations, non-renewals, and reductions in force, academic freedom, student disputes on academic matters, and transcript and degree issues are all analyzed. Goonen and Blechman provide a general guide that can be readily utilized and understood by those without specific prior training in the law or in higher education administration. The discussions and information the guide contains will be valuable to current and prospective practitioners as they seek to balance the legal, ethical, and practical issues that surface in every decision in the increasingly complex higher education arena.

List of contents

Preface
A Delicate Balance: Legal, Ethical, and Practical Issues
Hiring Issues
Compensation and Employment Issues
Promotion and Tenure Issues
Terminations, Non-Renewals, and Reductions in Force
Academic Freedom
Student Disputes on Academic Matters
Transcript and Degree Issues
Appendices
Selected Bibliography

About the author

Rachel S. Blechman, Norma M. Goonen

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Blechman, Blechman Rachel S., Norma Goonen, Goonen Norma M.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.1999
• EAN: 9780313303043
• ISBN: 978-0-313-30304-3
• Series: The Greenwood Educators' Reference Collection
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Administration / General, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, Current Events and Issues: Education