HEA 8500: Legal Issues and Ethics for Higher Education Administrators

3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to provide higher education administrators with an informed paradigm, unique from that found in K-12 education, for ethical and legal decision making. Various codes of ethics and case studies will be analyzed and applied to specific situations in higher education. Students will engage in critical dialogue, research, and reflection to develop a personal code of ethics. Through deliberate exploration, higher education administrators will examine legal and ethical issues that are predominant in various higher education contexts and research best practices to incorporate into their own leadership practice. Deploying legal research and methodologies, this course will provide higher education administrators with the tools needed to tackle pressing legal and ethical issues in their higher education contexts.

This course may be cross-leveled with HESA 7500