The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was formed in 1915 following a protest over the firing of a faculty member at Stanford University.
Read the full storyThe American Association of University Women (AAUW) provides support and leadership in equity and equality issues within higher education as well as the larger society.
Read the full storyThe Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which was signed into law by President George H. W. Bush in 1990, protects an array of individuals with disabilities at colleges and universities from discrimination by imposing comprehensive obligations on private sector employers, public services and accommodations, and transportation.
Read the full storyAssistive technology refers to the use of technologicaldevices and situational modifications byor for individuals with disabilities to enable themto improve or maintain their functional capabilities.
Read the full storyThe mission of the Association for the Study ofHigher Education (ASHE) is to encourage scholarlyinquiry to increase knowledge and understandingof higher education in all of itsmultifaceted dimensions.
Read the full storyBerea College v. Kentucky (1908) is a significantcivil rights case in higher education that paved theway for subsequent judicial decisions that struckdown segregated educational facilities as unconstitutional.
Read the full storyThe phrase board of trustees is synonymous with governance in higher education and is the most common name for groups of individuals who serve as the legal agents for and have authority over two-year colleges, four-year colleges, and universities in the United States.
Read the full storyThe framers of the U.S. Constitution were concerned that the individual rights of Americans in the new republic were not adequately protected in the original Constitution.
Read the full storyIn Board of Curators of the University of Missouriv. Horowitz (1978), the U.S. Supreme Courtreviewed the issue of whether officials at a publicuniversity’s medical school afforded one of theirstudents procedural due process when they tooksteps to dismiss her from an academic program.
Read the full storyBoard of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth is one of two key 1972 decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court that helped to establish the parameters of federal due process for employees in higher education.
Read the full storyBoard of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth (2000) is a U.S. Supreme Court case that addresses funding of student groups by a public university.
Read the full storyThe U.S. Supreme Court’s 1983 opinion in Bob Jones University v. United States, Goldsboro Christian School v. United States, was a landmark decision in companion cases on tax exemptions for charitable giving to colleges and universities as well as K–12 schools.
Read the full storyCannon v. University of Chicago (1979) stands out as the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court recognized an implied cause of action for monetary damages under Section 901 of the Education Amendments of 1972, more commonly referred to as Title IX, in response to discrimination based on sex.
Read the full storyThe courts have constantly refined the relationship between institutions of higher learning and their students since the nascence of American higher education.
Read the full storyIn Central Virginia Community College v. Katz (2006), the U.S. Supreme Court held that Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity, which protects states and their agencies from litigation, did not bar adversarial proceedings brought by a Chapter 11 bankruptcy trustee to set aside alleged preferential payments that operators of a bankrupt bookstore made to public institutions of higher education.
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