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As a part of the new administration’s broader effort to add regulatory requirements and scrutiny to institutions of higher education, on April 23, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) on Transparency Regarding...more
The Trump Administration stated last week that it will prioritize compliance and enforcement against colleges and universities with respect to the U.S. Department of Education (ED)'s foreign gift, contract and ownership...more
On April 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled Transparency Regarding Foreign Influence at American Universities, aimed at reinforcing and expanding the enforcement of Section 117 of the Higher...more
The Order requires the Secretary of Education to take all appropriate actions to ensure complete and timely disclosure by higher education institutions of foreign funding. The Secretary will take appropriate steps to reverse...more
In light of recent enforcement activity, institutions of higher education should review their reporting and disclosure obligations related to foreign entities and individuals under Section 117 of the Higher Education Act (20...more
On March 28, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education issued a Dear Colleague Letter addressed to the chief officers of state educational agencies (SEAs) and local educational agencies (LEAs), reminding them that the Family...more
The federal bipartisan Stop Campus Hazing Act, an amendment to the Jeanne Clery Act, was signed into law by President Joe Biden on December 24, 2024....more
The Stop Campus Hazing Act, which went into effect on Jan. 1, 2025, now requires higher education institutions to collect hazing statistics to include in their 2026 Annual Security Report, among other new reporting and...more
Earlier this week, the National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued Memorandum GC 24-06 seeking to clarify the obligations imposed by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) on academic institutions...more
Can you believe it? Summer isn’t over yet, but it’s already time to start thinking about the upcoming school year. For parents of younger children, this means shopping for school supplies and new clothes, reestablishing...more
The U.S. Department of Education (Department) has identified college closures and institutional financial instability as creating significant costs for students and taxpayers. From 2013 to 2022, the Department sought more...more
As part of the government’s broader efforts to combat foreign threats to U.S.-funded scientific research, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) have announced...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled last week in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Navient Corp. that the PA Attorney General could bring a parallel enforcement action against Navient, a servicer of federal...more
The Daily Report is a compilation of COVID-19 (coronavirus) news briefs from around the world to help life sciences and health care companies stay current in this challenging time....more
As we’ve been tracking for over a year now, courts across the country have addressed the significant question of whether the federal laws governing federally owned or guaranteed student loans preempt state laws placing...more
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) recently launched investigations into at least a half dozen top research institutions for failing to disclose foreign-sourced gifts or contracts. Under section 117 of the Higher...more
On 4 February 2020, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced that OMB and the U.S. Department of Education (ED) have decided to withdraw the emergency information collection request that ED had submitted to OCR on...more
The Higher Education Act was passed by Congress in 1986. Since then, higher education institutions have been required by Section 117 of the act to biannually report to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) gifts from or...more
On 17 December 2019, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) published in the Federal Register notice of a new information collection request (ICR) related to reporting requirements under Section 117 of the Higher Education Act...more
On November 1, 2019, the U.S. Department of Education (the “Department”) published in the Federal Register final regulations (the “Final Rule”) governing the recognition of accrediting agencies for postsecondary education and...more
On Friday, November 1, the Department of Education published its final state authorization for distance education regulations in the Federal Register, available here. The rule draws on the 2016 version of the state...more
Although in the past few weeks the U.S. Department of Education (ED) had encouraged institutions to prepare for additional compliance requirements related to gainful employment (GE) that were scheduled to take effect on...more
On July 1, 2019, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) published final regulations (the “Final Rule”) rescinding requirements for programs that are eligible for Title IV federal student financial aid based on...more
After granting institutions several extensions to comply with certain disclosure requirements of the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) "gainful employment" (GE) regulations, ED announced that beginning on 1 July 2019,...more
After earlier delays in implementation, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) has instructed postsecondary education institutions that more extensive distribution requirements for Gainful Employment (GE) program...more