By Kevin G. Welner, Wendy C. Chi
Academic coverage controversies within the usa always implicate criminal concerns. coverage debates approximately trying out and faculty selection, for instance, can't be disentangled from criminal rights and mandates. an identical is right for matters corresponding to investment, campus safeguard, speech and faith rights, in addition to the instructing of immigrant scholars. Written for a basic viewers, this new twelve-chapter ebook explores those compelling academic coverage concerns via that criminal lens, construction an knowing of either legislation and coverage. The book's editors are Kevin Welner, affiliate professor of academic coverage on the college of Colorado at Boulder, and Wendy Chi, a doctoral candidate at Boulder. either Welner and Chi are legal professionals in addition to academic students.
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