Georgia has enacted SB 213, which amends Georgia’s Fair Business Practices Act of 1975 by banning commercial cheating services marketed to students and examinees seeking a professional license. The new law will go into effect...more
The 2024 Public Health Service (PHS) Policies on Research Misconduct involving PHS-funded research were released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) on...more
The world is blessed and cursed by nuance. Most issues are complicated, and truly understanding them requires expertise, depth of insight, familiarity, and an appreciation for how nuances impact the issue and its context....more
This is the fifth in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more
The emergence of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools has triggered widespread debates about the propriety of their use, especially in education circles, where academic integrity and confidentiality...more
One university lost 14 awards; another, four. An investigator was suspended governmentwide. A public institution paid back more than $850,000, while two others returned nearly a million dollars....more
School district practices on referrals to local law enforcement for student misconduct in schools are facing intense scrutiny in the wake of the ProPublica investigation reported these past weeks in the Chicago Tribune. ...more
Institutions of Higher Education need to consider new approaches to Title IX compliance. We recommend proactive, periodic, non-incident related, and targeted operational compliance audits to get in front of Title IX issues...more
As we reported, the Department of Education announced earlier this month that it would begin implementing its “borrower defense” final rule which was issued in November 2016 by providing discharges of federal student loans...more
A panel of three professors posing inartfully phrased questions of a witness under oath, with members of the administration present, may not be the best way to gather relevant facts. Q: How do institutions of higher...more
The California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools (CAPPS) has filed a complaint in D.C. federal district court against the Dept. of Education and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to overturn the “borrower defense”...more