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We have organized this Student Version into 12 chapters. These chapters are in turn organized into five parts: (1) Perspectives and Foundations; (2) The College and Its Governing Board and Staff; (3) The College and Its Faculty; (4) The College and Its Students; and (5) The College and the Outside World. In turn, we have divided these five parts into 12 chapters. Each chapter is divided into numerous sections and subsections with their own titles.

Chapter 1 provides a framework for understanding and integrating what is presented in subsequent chapters and a perspective for assimilating future legal developments. Chapter 2 addresses foundational concepts concerning legal liability, preventive law, and the processes of litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Chapters 3 through 10 develop the legal concepts and issues that define the internal relationships among the various members of the campus community and address the law's impact on particular roles, functions, and responsibilities of students, faculty members, and trustees and administrators. Chapter 11 is concerned with the postsecondary institution's external relationships with government at the federal, state, and local levels. This chapter examines broad questions of governmental power and process that cut across all the internal relationships and administrative functions considered in Chapters 3 through 10. Chapter 12 also deals with the institution's external relationships, but the relationships are those with the private sector rather than with government. This chapter explores the various national and regional education associations with which postsecondary institutions interact, as well as the various research ventures that institutions engage in with private entities from the commercial world.

Prior to the first chapter, we have included a General Introduction with six sections. After the last chapter, we have included a bibliography of resources for research and independent study, as well as four appendices containing various study aids.