Senior Faculty Legal Issues Under Disability Discrimination Law Webinar
November 8, 2011
Faculty members increasingly claim discrimination on the basis of disability in connection with adverse employment decisions. Disability claims can arise in the context of employment, tenure, and promotion decisions. To what extent have the elimination of mandatory retirement, the difficulty of measuring faculty performance, force/cost reduction initiatives and a shaky economy combined to fuel this trend? The law has become complex, and the risks of being out of compliance are accelerating. Join us as a leading national expert in disability law guides you to develop better practices for your institution.
This webinar will cover:
- The definition of disability
- How to determine if a faculty member is or remains “qualified” for disability law purposes
- What are reasonable accommodations
- Setting proper expectations for faculty performance and productivity
- Good practices in disability law procedures
- Good practices for documentation
- Recent regulatory/statutory changes and developments, including the 2008 amendments
- Important recent judicial decisions
- What may be coming next in the evolution of disability law and faculty employment
- The uniqueness of academic employment requires regulators and the courts to tailor disability law to higher education
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