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McGlinchey Stafford

Colleges Face a Bumpy Road With AI, Protests, and Policy Updates

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Higher education has faced dramatic challenges these past few years, prompting high-profile changes to university leadership and a rethinking of campus policies. It’s been a bumpy road for school administrators and legal...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Important Developments in Nationwide COVID-19 Tuition Refund Class Actions

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Four years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, tuition refund class actions against universities have not slowed down. This Holland & Knight alert considers two recent court cases that will impact litigation strategy...more

ArentFox Schiff

Shaping the Future of Higher Education: R2D2 or HAL 9000

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For better or worse, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is already transforming the way we live and work. Within two months of its initial release to the public, ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly active users,...more

Fisher Phillips

Summer Reading for Educational Leaders: 15 Links to Help You Plan for the 2023-2024 School Year

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A lot has transpired in the world of education and workplace law over the past school year, and you may have been too distracted handling the day-to-day functions of your job to stay up to speed. But never fear – we have...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Remote Options in Higher Education: The New Normal

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In the 2022-2023 academic year, many institutions of higher education attempted to return to “normal” operations – meaning the in-person, sometimes residential, and often immersive experience that characterized the...more

Fisher Phillips

Test Integrity in the Remote Learning Era: How Your School Can Avoid Privacy Violations

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A federal judge in Ohio just concluded that a university’s practice of conducting room scans for remote testing was unreasonable and a violation of a student’s Fourth Amendment privacy rights. The August 22 decision in...more

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Education Flash Survey Reveals Wide Differences in COVID Approach for New School Year

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While the great majority of schools will not be requiring their students or staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 this coming school year, that’s not necessarily true for schools in the Northeast and on the West Coast....more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Federal District Court Finds Public University Cannot Require Student to Permit Virtual Room Scan During Tests

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Summary - Room scans, when required by a public university for students taking remote exams, have the potential to violate test-takers’ constitutional rights to privacy, a judge ruled....more

Jaburg Wilk

Zoom University: How Distance Learning May Impact Out-of-State Students’ Abilities to Claim In-State Tuition at Arizona...

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According to UNESCO, concerns related to COVID-19 led to school closures that impacted nearly 80% of the world’s student population. School closures led many universities to move away from in-person learning towards remote...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

[Webinar] Responding to Student Disability Accommodation Requests in the New Normal: You want to do what? We can’t do that...or...

A year after COVID-19 shuttered doors and opened a new world of online remote learning, K-12 schools, colleges, and universities are facing an increase in the number and type of student accommodation requests. The 2020 shift...more

Fisher Phillips

Education Institutions’ Silver Linings Playbook For Emerging From the Pandemic

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Our firm just published a “Silver Linings Playbook” gleaned from our various practice groups and industry teams highlighting the various ways that businesses can emerge for the better after the pandemic. While educational...more

WilmerHale

Harvard/MIT Student Visa Case

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In this In the Public Interest podcast episode, WilmerHale co-host and Partner Brendan McGuire welcomes Lawrence Bacow, the 29th President of Harvard University, along with WilmerHale Partners Felicia Ellsworth and Seth...more

Franczek P.C.

Two Cases Illustrate Themes of Successful Higher Education Institutions in Breach of Contract Claims for Remote Instruction

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many higher education institutions transitioned to remote instruction, causing students to attend classes online, move out of dorms, and forego the traditional college experience....more

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Show Me The Money! Is Your Enrollment Contract Enforceable Against A Tuition Refund Demand?

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2020 has been a tumultuous year, but it has taught us to better prepare for the future and how to better enable schools to maintain their operations in the face of these unprecedented challenges. As schools faced shutdown...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

COVID-19 and Unprecedented Litigation Insights, Issue 26, October 2020

This 26th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, sees us returning to now-familiar topics involving liability protection for businesses, wrongful death lawsuits (particularly those...more

Franczek P.C.

COVID School Landscape

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In this episode, we discuss the most top-of-mind issues and lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis....more

Saul Ewing LLP

Preparing the Physical Classroom for In-Person and Hybrid Learning

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By this point in late September, almost all higher education institutions have begun classes again, and the majority are exclusively online. Administrators have been constantly discussing practical steps and general...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

COVID-19 and Unprecedented: Litigation Insights - Issue 22, August 2020

COVID-19 and Unprecedented: Litigation Insights, Issue 22 In our 22nd edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, we see cases against employers continue to rise, and offer insight for...more

McDermott Will & Emery

The Toughest Problem Set: Navigating Regulatory and Operational Challenges on University Campuses

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When the academic year ended in the spring of 2020, many US university students assumed that a return to campus would be straightforward this fall. However, it is now clear—at least in the near term—that a return to the old...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Unprecedented: COVID-19 Litigation Trends - Issue 18, 2020

This 18th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, sees us return to what, even in these early days of the pandemic, must be considered as some of the hottest topics. Thus, we discuss new...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Unprecedented: COVID-19 Litigation Trends - Issue 17, 2020

This 17th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, discusses everything from insurance coverage disputes to statewide shutdown orders. Despite an uphill climb towards liability, businesses...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 8: In This Month's E-News: August 2020

Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 8 (August 2020) - Higher education groups and others are hailing a decision by the administration to rescind planned rules that would have required students in the United States on...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Update on Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) Online Study Exemption

The Trump administration reversed a previous directive that would have barred students in F-1 and M-1 nonimmigrant status from remaining in the United States this fall while taking courses entirely online. Earlier this month,...more

Miller Canfield

Government Rescinds Policy Barring International Students Taking Online-Only Courses from Staying in the U.S.

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On July 14, 2020, in response to a lawsuit filed by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has agreed to rescind a policy that would have barred...more

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ICE Rescinds Student Visa Policy Requiring In-Person Attendance

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has agreed to rescind a proposed rule that would have required international students on F-1 and M-1 visas to either attend in-person classes at U.S. colleges and universities or...more

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