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Staying Out Of Court: Leadership Factors For Consideration As Higher Education Administrators, Steven R. Briggs
Staying Out Of Court: Leadership Factors For Consideration As Higher Education Administrators, Steven R. Briggs
Parameters of Law in Student Affairs and Higher Education (CNS 670)
Higher education leaders have a tremendous responsibility as it relates to legal concerns. This guidebook is intended to assist leaders in higher education by providing factors for which administrators serving in a student affairs or higher education leadership role should consider. This guidebook is designed to offer five recommendations for best practices. The guidebook will also review the 2007 rape and murder of a Eastern Michigan University student in demonstrating how leaders at this institution failed to follow these five factors of best practice and thus providing examples of negligence or tort liability, which has best been defined as civil …