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Presidential Executive Order Targets DEI in Higher Education

The Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity Executive Order (EO) issued on Jan. 22, 2025, takes aim at diversity, equity and inclusion programs at institutions of higher education. (McGuireWoods’...more

1/23/2025 / Affirmative Action , Department of Education , Department of Justice (DOJ) , Diversity , Executive Orders , Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard College , Title IX , Title VI , Universities

SCOTUS Permits Military Academy to Use Race as a Factor in Student Admissions — for Now

Affirmative action admissions developments in the higher education sector continue, as the U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to issue an emergency injunction pending appeal that would have prohibited the U.S. Military...more

2/12/2024 / Affirmative Action , College Admissions , Diversity , Fourteenth Amendment , SCOTUS , Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard College , Students for Fair Admissions v University of North Carolina

SBA Issues Interim Guidance After Ultima Decision Finds 8(a) Program Violates Equal Protection

On July 19, 2023, in Ultima Services Corp. v. U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee enjoined the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from determining federal...more

10/2/2023 / 8(a) Program , Affirmative Action , Equal Protection , Federal Contractors , Fifth Amendment , OFCCP , SBA , Small Business , USDA

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