Higher education

HEA 550 Final Project Milestone One: Law or Regulation Overview Guidelines and Rubric Overview: In your role as a leader or administrator in higher education, you will encounter situations that require you to explain or understand the impact of a law or regulation on your institution, its stakeholders, or higher education overall. While this will not take the place of the advice of legal professionals, it is important that you are able to describe the requirements of a law or regulation, define the governmental or organizational source of the requirement, and explain the requirement as it relates to the requirement’s stakeholders and their goals and motivation. In task 2-2, you will submit an overview of the legal and/or regulatory requirement that you selected in consultation with your instructor as part of a non-graded discussion during Module One. Your analysis and overview will focus on the law or regulation in terms of the higher education sector overall, and the law or regulation that you select has or will have a significant impact on a functional area of interest to you. Evidence of the impact of a law or regulation on higher education is evident through a quick perusal of several sources, including the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Journal of College and University Law. Both are available through SNHU’s Shapiro Library. Please support your research of the law or regulation with source citations. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Selected law or regulation. In consultation with your instructor, select a legal and/or regulatory requirement that has a significant impact on a functional area of interest to you (for example, admissions, finance, student affairs, or human resources).

II. Describe the law or regulation.

 Source and Requirements: What governmental body or organization is its source? What exactly does the law or regulation require?

 Purpose and Intent: What was the original purpose of the requirement? What was the impetus for or origin of the requirement; in other words, why was it put in place?

 Institutional Application: Which type(s) of institution(s) does this apply to? How, if at all, does the application of this requirement differ by type of institution (private vs. public, two-year vs. four-year, for-profit vs. nonprofit)? Please highlight other relevant differences in application across the sector of higher education.

III. Describe the requirement’s stakeholders.

 Stakeholders: What stakeholder groups are impacted or involved with the requirement? Stakeholder groups might include students, faculty, staff, parents, employers, lawmakers, among others.

 Stakeholder Analysis: What is each group’s position on the requirement? What are each group’s goals and motivation relative to the requirement?

Guidelines for Submission: Double-spaced Word document, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, APA format. Page length requirements: 3–5 pages, not including title page and references. If you do not receive “Proficient” on the first critical element, you cannot earn points for this assignment. Please see the feedback provided by your instructor and re-submit, as needed. Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information, review these instructions.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Selected Law or Regulation

Selected an appropriate law or regulation that aligns within the domain of the course and the assignment

Selected law or regulation is not appropriately within the domain of the course and the assignment

P/F

Source and Requirements

Explains in detail the source and requirements of the law or regulation in relationship to higher education

Explains the source or requirements of the law or regulation but is cursory or does not address the relationship to higher education

Does not explain the source or requirements of the law or regulation

10

Purpose and Intent Clearly and thoroughly explains the purpose and intent of the regulatory requirement in relationship to higher education

Explains the purpose and intent of the regulatory requirement but explanation is unclear or cursory or does not address the relationship to higher education

Does not explain the purpose or intent of the law or regulation

20

Institutional Application

Clearly and thoroughly describes the type(s) of institutions the requirement applies to, and highlights differences, with examples, of impact across different types of institutions

Describes the type(s) of institutions the requirement applies to, but description is unclear or cursory or does not provide examples

Does not describe the requirements for application

20

Stakeholders Describes, with examples, who the requirement’s stakeholders are

Describes the requirement’s stakeholders but description is unclear or cursory or does not provide examples

Does not describe the requirement’s stakeholders

15

Stakeholder Analysis Describes each stakeholder group’s position on the requirement and their goals and motivation relative to the requirement

Describes each stakeholder group’s position on the requirement but is cursory or does not address their goals and motivation relative to the requirement

Does not provide analysis of the stakeholder’s position

15

Articulation of Response

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

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

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

20

Earned Total 100%