assignment 1

HEA 640 Module One Short Paper Guidelines and Rubric In order to be successful in the student affairs profession, you must be knowledgeable of current, past, and prospective legal issues and regulations that impact higher education. Research and identify the basic sources of higher education law. Compare and contrast these sources and explain which source you think can ensure institutional governance. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

a. Legal Issues and Regulations: Describe a current legal issue and/or regulation that exists in higher education. Explain why the law or regulation was made, and how the issue or regulation affects higher education.

b. Sources of Higher Education Law: Describe the basic sources of higher education law, and explain how they are different from each other. What sources would institutions need to establish institutional governance?

c. Ensure Institutional Governance: Apply a source of higher education law that supports institutional governance. How does this source inform the guarantee of institutional governance?

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a one- to two-page (plus cover sheet and reference page) Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least two sources cited in APA format (following the APA Manual 6th Edition). Ensure that the cover sheet and reference page are also in APA format.

Critical Elements

Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Legal Issues and Regulations

Describes a current legal issue and/or regulation that exists in higher education

Describes a current legal issue and/or regulation that exists in higher education but the description is brief or lacks detail

Does not describe a current legal issue and/or regulation that exists in higher education

30

Sources of Higher

Education Law

Describes the basic sources of higher education law

Describes the basic sources of higher education law but lacks detail

Does not describe the basic sources of higher education law

30

Ensure Institutional Governance

Applies a source of higher education law that supports institutional governance

Applies a source of higher education law that supports institutional governance but details are brief and generalized

Does not apply a source of higher education law that supports institutional governance

20

Articulation of Response

Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

20

Earned Total 100%