Legal & Risk Management
A document that serves to identify the rights that a college or university has promised students
What are contracts?
What is the difference between a disaster and campus crisis?
Disaster: impact more than just the campus, it impacts surrounding communities, also draws on more than institutional support (state, federal etc.)
Campus Crisis: event that disrupts the normal operation of the institution
One method of historical accountability for higher education institutions.
What is accreditation?
A consumer protection law that aims to provide transparency around campus crime policy and statistics.
One area of student speech where the first amendment law is somewhat unclear with regard to campus policy.
What is student speech on facebook and other social media sites?
What are 3 of the 5 planning frameworks for HEIs talked about in the Zdziarski chapter?
What are prevention, protection, mitigation, response, recovery?
An example of what types of issues are NOT centered under a legal liability framework.
Multiple. Student or community needs or wellbeing, collective responsibility.
The paradigm under which colleges positioned themselves as legally acting in place of a parent.
What is in loco parentis?
Give an example of how you have seen an HEI violate OR handle a free speech incident on campus
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Give an example of a crisis plan in place for your department (past or present).
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How can institutions be more accountable to their students?
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Policy/practice in place for accountability for research in higher education
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Give any 2 key ideas of either the 2nd and/or 4th amendment as it relates to higher education
How can stakeholders be actively engaged in crisis management?
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What role do you think an institutions mission plays in accountability?
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How a students information can be released under FERPA.
What is students' written consent for release of records (while there are exceptions to this rule)?
Three antidiscrimination laws that Congress has passed since 1964
What are any of the following: Title VI, Title IX, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990?
What is a key role the SA professionals play during a crisis response effort?
What is accounting for student location and safety?
One or both ways Carey (2007) says can increase action and accountability.
What are: (1) collect more data AND make it accessible and available to everyone, and (2) set ambitious and agreed upon goals for success with external bodies?
1 of the 3 central questions that socially just and equity minded legal administration should ask, as related to sexual misconduct
1. who has been harmed?
2. what are their needs?
3. whose obligation is it to meet those needs?