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2025 Summer Reading List for Educational Leaders

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Another school year is winding down, and educational leaders perhaps have never been more ready for summer break. From the Trump administration’s significant policy shifts to deeply consequential litigation playing out to...more

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Trump Issues 7 New Executive Orders Impacting Higher Ed and K-12 Schools, Ranging From DEI to Discipline to AI

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President Trump just issued a wave of education-related executive orders – seven, to be exact – impacting both higher education and K-12 schools. Educational institutions need to tune in and catch up, and we’ve compiled this...more

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White House Initiative to Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Trump EO Tracker)

States the policy of the Administration to support Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in fostering more and better opportunities in higher education and ensuring college-educated Americans are empowered to...more

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The Academic Advisor - Education Law Insights, Issue 2, March 2025

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

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Developments in the DEI Landscape Heading into Trump's Second Month

President Trump’s Executive Orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), discussed in previous client alerts with regard to higher education institutions and business more broadly, have prompted responses from...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Impact of Recent Executive Orders Regarding DEI and Affirmative Action in Higher Education

On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” In addition to affecting government programs, federal contractors and federal...more

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Presidential Executive Order Targets DEI in Higher Education

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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

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New Texas Law Prohibiting Institutions of Higher Education From Establishing or Maintaining DEI Offices Is Now Effective

Effective January 1, 2024, a new Texas law prohibits public institutions of higher education from, among other things, establishing or maintaining diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices or hiring or assigning...more

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Federal Contractors Beware: New Executive Order Prohibits Certain Anti-Discrimination Training

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On September 22, 2020, President Trump signed the Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping (“EO”). Under the EO, executive departments and agencies, the military, federal contractors, and federal grant...more

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The Future of Diversity and Inclusion Training: The OMB Memo Prohibiting Certain Training in the Federal Government

On September 4, 2020, Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), issued an agency-wide memo regarding diversity and inclusion training in the federal workforce. The OMB memo states: It has...more

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New Executive Order Prohibits Training that "Promotes Race or Sex Stereotyping"

In the wake of the killing of George Floyd and other African Americans by police officers, many government contractors have undertaken social justice initiatives and increased training around unconscious or implicit bias. On...more

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Executive Order Combats Race and Sex Stereotyping

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On September 22, 2020, President Trump signed a new executive order “On Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping.” The new order applies to federal contractors, federal agencies, and federal grant recipients and bans training that...more

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Executive Order On Diversity Training and Promotion of “Divisive Concepts” - Implications for Universities

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On September 22, 2020, President Trump issued a new executive order intended “to combat offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping.” The order aims to shape how diversity training is conducted not only within the...more

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Critical Legal Updates for Federal Contractors and Subcontractors

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Executive Order Bans Federal Contractors from Providing Implicit Bias Training - In response to ongoing social justice protests and the heightened sense of awareness pertaining to matters of racial equity, many employers...more

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Executive Order Bans Certain Race and Sensitivity Training Topics in Employment and Education

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On September 22, 2020, President Donald Trump issued a controversial Executive Order “combat[ting] offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating” by federal contractors and recipients of federal grant...more

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