Our higher education appeals practice is based largely on the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which guarantees that no person shall be deprived of ‘life, liberty or property without due process of law.” The murder of George Floyd is...
Continue Reading →Academic appeals may be justified in cases involving the refusal of a testing service to validate SAT or other standardized test results. Students in higher education assume that if they achieve a passing score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test or other national...
Continue Reading →There are many varieties of student misconduct which can submit a student to university discipline. I have written previously about Title IX Sexual Misconduct, which is gender based discrimination or offensive conduct related to gender. This can relate to words...
Continue Reading →College and university professors may be in need of legal assistance when facing a variety of institutional decisions adversely affecting their status, including promotion, tenure issues and professor appeals; misconduct allegations and discriminatory employment actions. All of these areas of...
Continue Reading →The long-standing practice of awarding tenure to faculty members has been viewed by much of the public as a guarantee of lifetime employment for professors. This belief ignores the pervasive practice in American colleges and universities of conducting Post-Tenure Review...
Continue Reading →Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and its implementing regulations have found their way into the lives of university students and administrators at both public and private universities. However, public universities are clearly mandated to provide Constitutional Due...
Continue Reading →Having written previously about Post-Tenure Review within the subject of Professor Appeals, Mr. Cohen addresses an ongoing issue for non -tenured professors with regard to Student Evaluations. These are voluntary anonymous online ratings of professors which students are encouraged to...
Continue Reading →“In September of 2017, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos published a new Interim Guidance Press Release and released a new interim “Q & A on Campus Sexual Misconduct” designed to serve as guidance for schools’ handling of allegations of Title...
Continue Reading →The justification for a child with any K-12 student with disability obtaining an IEP (Individualized Education Program) is that the disability impacts his opportunity to obtain a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). It can be as minor as a...
Continue Reading →Faculty members of both private and public colleges and universities who face disciplinary action for faculty misconduct allegations have important rights which require the skill and experience of a lawyer to enforce. For private colleges and universities, those rights are...
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