Based on the fifth edition of the indispensable guide to the laws that bear on the conduct of higher education, this student edition provides an up-to-date textbook, reference, and guide for coursework in higher education law and programs preparing higher education administrators for leadership roles. This student edition contains a glossary of key terms, and an appendix on how to read legal material for the non-law student. Each chapter is introduced by a discussion of key terms and ideas the students will encounter, and the book includes the parts of the full fifth edition that most relate to student and administrator interests: the evolution and governance of higher education law legal planning and dispute resolution the college and its employees faculty employment academic freedom copyright, intellectual property, peer-to-peer file sharing, and the sharing of research with international colleagues the student/institution relationship campus issues: safety, registered sex offenders, racial and sexual harassment, student suicide, police and administrators' right to search students' residence hall rooms rights and responsibilities of individual students hate speech and freedom of speech, including the rights of faculty in public universities student organizations' rights, responsibilities, and activities fees governmental support for religious institutions and religious autonomy rights of individual public institutions collective bargaining, antidiscrimination laws, nondiscrimination and affirmative action in employment, admissions, and financial aid athletics and Title IX FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)