Posted on 09/29/2014 1:35:34 PM PDT by reaganaut1
College syllabi are handed out en masse at the beginning of a course for students. Sometimes they’re kept and carefully followed; sometimes they’re tossed away when the student decides not to take it after all. Professors often post their syllabi online. They are not treated like creative works.
Therefore, the idea that syllabi are the copyrighted property of the professor seems far-fetched. The idea that the university that employs the professor must refuse requests for copies of them under a state’s “Sunshine Law” seems even more so. But that is exactly the situation in a dispute involving the University of Missouri and the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ).
As a part of a national study meant to evaluate education school programs – the training future teachers get in college – NCTQ sought the syllabi from numerous institutions. Most schools cooperated, if grudgingly. (You can read about NCTQ’s analysis of education schools and programs here.)
The one that absolutely refused was the University of Missouri. That caused NCTQ to take the further step of formally requesting the syllabi under the state’s Sunshine Law, which is supposed to let the public know what government and governmental institutions are up to. The university still refused, so NCTQ sued.
So far, NCTQ has lost.
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So, you have to take the course to see what’s in it?....................
The communists in our education system don’t want anyone seeing what they are up to.
If I saw that a teacher pretty much taught from the book, I just used the syllabus to note which days the exams were so I could show up on those days.
This is not Mizzou...
this is the school of EDUCATION at Mizzou.
All schools of education are full of idiots and communists.
I know I actually went through that &%$# to get teaching credentials.
Go to the campus bookstore, buy the used textbooks for the course and see what the previous students underlined................
The dumbing down even more of a degree in Education.
No foreign language requirement to get a degree in education in most universities and colleges.
So, surprise, surprise, the weakest of students get in that department.
Depending on how the university handles their intellectual property rights, probably NOT the property of the professor. Any course content created while in the employ of our university is automatically the intellectual property of the institution, not the professor. Anyone teaching signs a contract detailing this information.
In general....
Those that CAN, do....
Those that CAN’T, teach.....
Those that CAN’T TEACH, run Schools of Education or become Administrators.
Or politicians.
I'd bet the school may have suggested it has an opening(s) for highly skilled legal professionals, soon to be retired jurists with experience preferred.
Wha...?
There is that...
Well of course they don’t want them floating around like handy fact sheets for writers exposing the kiddies college classes to mom and dad. Eyebrows will raise when the folks can see that ‘The Individual and Society’ class they coughed up $1,500.00 for includes cute things like tours to a gay bath house or live prostitute chats or collages made from nude selfies. Yeah, mom and dad might not like what greater minds have in store for the kids. But, hey, if were going to have a better society somebody has to pay for it!
I give my syllabi out for free and also post them online. Not that the students actually read them. I’m also required from time to time to submit copies to the department secretary. I’ve never heard of syllabi being considered as copyrighted.
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