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Affirmative Action Educational Institutions New Guidance

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

The Bondi Memo: How These Guiding Principles May Influence Your Approach to Scholarship Design and Oversight

By Elizabeth Manchester and Kelley O’Donnell On July 29, 2025, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a sweeping memorandum titled “Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination,” which...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Departments of Education, Justice Publish Initial Affirmative Action Decision Guidance

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As it promised in June, the Biden Administration published much-anticipated federal guidance on higher education admissions on Aug. 14, 2023. The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (ED) and U.S. Department...more

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Biden Administration Issues Guidance to Universities on Implementing Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling

A Department of Education letter and Q&A document outlines lawful ways for universities to promote diverse student bodies. Higher education institutions are urged to “redoubl[e] efforts to recruit and retain” students...more

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Biden Administration Provides Guidance on Advancing Diversity in Higher Education Following the Supreme Courts Decision in...

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On August 14, 2023, the Biden Administration released its first guidance on how institutions of higher education may lawfully pursue efforts to recruit and admit diverse student bodies in light of the Supreme Court’s recent...more

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OFCCP Issues Technical Assistance Guide for Educational Institutions and Trains its Sights on the Tenure Selection Process

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Maintaining its recent focus on compliance issues particular to educational institutions, OFCCP published a technical assistance guide for educational institutions on October 11, 2019.  The guide follows a flurry of OFCCP...more

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