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[Webinar] What Civil Rights Administrators Need to Know Right Now About the False Claims Act Risk - July 24th, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm...

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Your college has a strong commitment to DEI work, but you’re concerned about the Trump Administration’s Executive Order banning DEI. You’re not sure how seriously to take it, or what the early court rulings against the order...more

Alston & Bird

U.S. Department of Education Approves $415 Million in Borrower Defense to Repayment Discharges

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Our Education Team examines how the Borrower Defense Rule is again expanding under the Biden Administration, beginning with a huge decision involving, for the first time, for-profit schools that are still operating. Nearly...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Senate Dems Target For-Profit Colleges and Federal Student Loan Servicers and Collectors in Letter to Dept. of Education

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Last week, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) requesting information about how OCR “plans to address alarming racial...more

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Can I Make Copies of That? A Summary of Where Copyright Stands for Higher Education Institutions

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College and university staff and college store operators routinely grapple with how to enable students to use copyrighted material in the most economical and efficient way. Copyright protections have not made this easy, with...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Assessing Kaplan-Purdue – Revolution or Evolution??

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The announcement that Purdue University, a Big Ten public institution, has agreed to acquire Kaplan University, a 30,000-student for-profit online institution, has sent shock waves across the entire higher education...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Absolutely no shock Universities being sued over their Plans

There has been an influx of participant lawsuits against private universities for the 401(k) and/or 403(b) plans they sponsor for their employees. That’s like shooting fish in a barrel....more

Carlton Fields

U.S. Department of Education Outlines Loan Relief Pathway for Certain Students

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On March 11, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) released an advanced proposal of rulemaking that would establish a more "borrower-friendly process" for students seeking loan relief triggered by unscrupulous conduct by...more

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CFPB Cannot Force For-Profit College Group to Comply With Investigative Demand

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On April 21, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that due to a lack of authority under existing consumer protection laws, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) cannot require a...more

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CFPB lacked authority to issue CID issued to college accrediting organization, D.C. federal district court rules

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The D.C. federal district court has ruled that the CFPB exceeded its statutory authority when it issued a CID to the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) in August 2015....more

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No ‘Gain’? Know Pain: Coming Federal Regulations Could Mean Less Federal Aid for Colleges and Universities

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New federal education regulations take effect this summer that could substantially reduce federal aid to community colleges and for-profit colleges whose students fail to meet certain standards for finding “gainful...more

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Update on Illinois AG lawsuit using Dodd-Frank authority

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As we previously reported, among the lawsuits that have been brought by a state attorney general and a state regulator using their Dodd-Frank enforcement authority is a lawsuit initially filed by the Illinois AG in state...more

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