Higher education legal expert Dr. Jim Castagnera will show you how to draft an ironclad syllabus. You will learn all the provisions to include to promote transparency and guide learning.
What You'll Learn
- Is a syllabus a contractual commitment?
- What essential components and sections should your syllabus include?
- What common mistakes lead to undesirable outcomes, such as grade appeals?
- How should syllabi differ between face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses?
- How can you tailor content to undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels?
- What language will protect you and your institution from legal liability?
Training Overview
Are you using an outdated syllabus? Use this crucial document to limit legal liability in 2023–24.
You need a new syllabus for the new academic year. This important course outline not only sets expectations for students but can protect you and your institution from legal liability.
Now is the time to consider updated regulations, and recent case law while following best practices to revise your syllabus. Redistributing the course framework documents you wrote in the past can lead to student misunderstandings and even lawsuits.
- Is a syllabus a contractual commitment?
- What essential components and sections should your syllabus include?
- What common mistakes lead to undesirable outcomes, such as grade appeals?
- How should syllabi differ between face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses?
- How can you tailor content to undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels?
- What language will protect you and your institution from legal liability?
Who Should Attend?
- Academic deans
- Associate and assistant deans
- Academic department chairpersons
- Program directors
- Faculty
- Curriculum specialists
- Learning strategists
- Faculty development staff
- Teaching and learning center personnel
- Instructional support staff
Expert Presenter
Dr. Jim Castagnera
- Served for 23 years as associate provost and legal counsel for academic affairs at Rider University, where he received the university’s highest annual award for distinguished service
- President of Dr. Jim’s One-Stop HR Shop, a full-service HR law and compliance company
- Partner with Portum Group International LLC, a data-privacy and compliance-consulting firm
- Of Counsel to the Wilftek law firm
- Adjunct Professor of Law in the Kline School of Law at Drexel University
- Arbitrator for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Taught at UT-Austin and Widener University Law School as a full-time law professor
- Previously worked as a labor, employment, and intellectual-property attorney with Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr
- M.A. in Journalism from Kent State University
- J.D. and Ph.D. (American Studies) from Case Western Reserve University
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