1. From the perspective of a college or university, is there a difference between internal law and external law? What are the kinds of sources of law of each kind? Discuss.
In examining whether there is a difference between internal and external law in relation to colleges and universities one must take note of the system of governance as it relates to institutions of higher education. Internal laws within higher educational institutions stem from internal governance structures or entities established within the institution that manages the internal day to day workings. Examples of the internal governing bodies within institutions generally include the administration, faculty, professional staff and students which establish the rules and …show more content…
Review articles posted in the Chronicle of Higher Education or on Inside Higher Ed for the period of August 2017 - January 2018. Consider stories in which institutions of higher education are or can be held liable. Choose two stories (please reference the articles in your submission), discuss developments in each story in more detail, and discuss what kind of liability you are referring to.
The firt article that I will expound on involves a young lady in Illinois who is suing Jolliet Community College for what she feels is a violation of her first amendment rights.
Ivette Salazar felt that her right to free speech was violated when police officers appearantly detained her passing out anti-capitalism literature on the campus of the college. The article reports that Salazar distributed the fliers in response to conservative students dispensing of anti-socialims literature prior to her incident. The specifics of the case is that Salazaar was detained by campus police and her fliers were confiscated at the police station after she was told by police that she needed to obtain the college's permission prior to any distribution of literature was to be permitted. She was also told by police that the political climate was not conducive to the distribution of flyers with that type of messaging on …show more content…
The specifics of this case were that Professor Mcgettican utilized his work email to protest proposed faculty cuts by the university. The issue here was what was referenced in the email sent by Mcgettican, referring to the “Children of Ludlow” a reference in regard to a massacre of striking coalminers (Roll, 2017). The entirty of the email is as follows: “The hit men massacred those people. Coldly and methodically, the hit men turned their guns on women and children. The hit men riddled the little tent village in Ludlow with bullets, and then they set that village alight,” McGettigan wrote at the time. “That was a century ago. But what, if anything, has changed in southern Colorado?” (Roll
In examining whether there is a difference between internal and external law in relation to colleges and universities one must take note of the system of governance as it relates to institutions of higher education. Internal laws within higher educational institutions stem from internal governance structures or entities established within the institution that manages the internal day to day workings. Examples of the internal governing bodies within institutions generally include the administration, faculty, professional staff and students which establish the rules and …show more content…
Review articles posted in the Chronicle of Higher Education or on Inside Higher Ed for the period of August 2017 - January 2018. Consider stories in which institutions of higher education are or can be held liable. Choose two stories (please reference the articles in your submission), discuss developments in each story in more detail, and discuss what kind of liability you are referring to.
The firt article that I will expound on involves a young lady in Illinois who is suing Jolliet Community College for what she feels is a violation of her first amendment rights.
Ivette Salazar felt that her right to free speech was violated when police officers appearantly detained her passing out anti-capitalism literature on the campus of the college. The article reports that Salazar distributed the fliers in response to conservative students dispensing of anti-socialims literature prior to her incident. The specifics of the case is that Salazaar was detained by campus police and her fliers were confiscated at the police station after she was told by police that she needed to obtain the college's permission prior to any distribution of literature was to be permitted. She was also told by police that the political climate was not conducive to the distribution of flyers with that type of messaging on …show more content…
The specifics of this case were that Professor Mcgettican utilized his work email to protest proposed faculty cuts by the university. The issue here was what was referenced in the email sent by Mcgettican, referring to the “Children of Ludlow” a reference in regard to a massacre of striking coalminers (Roll, 2017). The entirty of the email is as follows: “The hit men massacred those people. Coldly and methodically, the hit men turned their guns on women and children. The hit men riddled the little tent village in Ludlow with bullets, and then they set that village alight,” McGettigan wrote at the time. “That was a century ago. But what, if anything, has changed in southern Colorado?” (Roll