Welcome to our second issue of The Academic Advisor for 2025. In this edition, we cover the following topics of interest for schools, institutions of higher education, and other education-focused organizations: - the...more
The proposed cuts would place a 15% indirect cost rate on all new and existing grant awards received by research institutions and universities....more
Over the past few weeks, the Trump administration has introduced sweeping changes across the federal government that have impacted the federal grantee and contractor community. Adding to these changes, the National Institutes...more
Republicans have swept the 2024 elections, returning Donald Trump to the White House as the 47th President and flipping the Senate to a Republican majority. Having narrowly maintained control of the House of Representatives,...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
When Anming Hu, an engineering professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (“UTK”) was indicted in February 2020 on charges related to his alleged failure to disclose ties to a state-run Chinese university, the case...more
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 1 (January 2021) - The National Science Foundation (NSF) will be accepting comments on a revised version of its Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) expected to be...more
In Washington: President-elect Joe Biden picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary. Becerra was a defender of the Affordable Care Act. Separately, Biden picked a Harvard infectious...more
Colleges and universities receive billions of dollars in federal funds, whether through research grants or student financial aid, or even by billing Medicare or Medicaid for services rendered at academic medical centers. As a...more