(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed News) - Khoury, the father of a Georgetown University student, was acquitted Thursday on charges that he paid $180,000 in cash to Gordon Ernst, Georgetown’s tennis coach, to have his daughter admitted, The New York Times reported.

(Excerpts from NAS News) - The National Association of Scholars (NAS) Senior Research Associate Neetu Arnold recently uncovered how the Texas A&M University System hid nearly $100 million in foreign funds from Russia and Qatar.

(Excerpts from Dept of Education News) -Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the resolution of a student’s complaint of pregnancy discrimination against Salt Lake Community College, in Utah.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed News) - Congress’s next move to limit partnerships with China could target America’s top colleges and universities—shutting down their investments in Chinese companies that “have been deemed an unacceptable national security risk,” Politico reported Friday.

(Excerpts from The Chronicle of Higher Education) - A bill introduced in Congress on Wednesday would grant students who experience sexual violence federal loan deferments while they are on temporary leave from college for treatment. Most federal student loans come with a six-month grace period that kicks in after graduation or when students take a semester off.

(Excerpts from Campus Safety News) - An internal audit determined the University of Northern Iowa’s (UNI) Clery policies and practices are lacking, particularly as it relates to fire safety and timely warnings.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed News) - Every year, the Department of Education sends a checklist to colleges and universities reminding them of the various federal laws and regulations they have to comply with, including environmental standards, Title IX and FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

(Excerpts from Higher Ed Dive) -The U.S. Department of Education is once again pushing back the release of its highly awaited regulatory proposal on Title IX and now plans to publish it in June.

(Excerpts from the Department of Education News) - The U.S. Department of Education will host a first-of-its-kind virtual summit, From Recovery to Thriving: Supporting Mental Health & Students with Disabilities, to highlight steps schools, colleges, and communities can take to support students with disabilities and students with mental health needs.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed) - Thirty- four briefs were filed, most of them last week, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse its past support for affirmative action in college admissions.

(Excerpts from Insider Ed News) - Duke University says it is “concerned” and will investigate a student’s graduation speech from Sunday, which closely mirrors a commencement address given at Harvard University in 2014.

(Excerpts from Higher Ed Dive) - The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced Friday that it is requesting public comments regarding general feedback on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 for students with disabilities in K-12 and higher education institutions.

(Excerpts from Insider Ed News) - Columbia University was awarded slightly over $185 million in damages Monday by a federal jury that found that NortonLifeLock Inc. willfully and literally infringed two patents related to groundbreaking cybersecurity safeguards invented by Columbia professors, according to a press release from the university.

(Excerpts from Insider Ed News) - Americans do not favor the consideration of race, ethnicity or gender in college admissions decisions. A new Pew Research Center report found that 74 percent think race and ethnicity should not be considered in admissions decisions

(Article from Dr. DeCesare, Clery Compliance Assistant Director) - I wanted to provide a federal update that impacts many programs within the institutional compliance program. The U.S. Department of Education issued final regulations adjusting the Department’s civil monetary penalties (CMPs) for inflation, effective April 20, 2022. Below are the adjusted CMPs:

(Excerpts from Insider Ed News) -The U.S. Education Department on Tuesday announced changes to two key student loan programs: the Public Service Loan Forgiveness and income-driven repayment programs (IDR).

(Excerpts from Higher Ed Dive) - In October 2020, the Trump-run U.S. Department of Education held an event trotting out a report alleging colleges had not disclosed billions of dollars from foreign sources, which they are obliged to do under federal law.

(Excerpts from The Free Press) - On Wednesday, BayCare Health System Inc. and entities that operate four affiliated Florida hospitals, have agreed to pay the United States $20 million to resolve allegations that BayCare violated the False Claims Act by making donations to the Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County (JWB) to improperly fund the state’s share of Medicaid payments to BayCare.

(Excerpt from ABC News) -The Biden administration plans to freeze federal student loan payments through Aug. 31, extending a moratorium that has allowed millions of Americans to postpone payments during the coronavirus pandemic, according to an administration official familiar with the White House's decision-making.

(Article from Dr. DeCesare, Clery Compliance Assistant Director) - On March 15th, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 2022. This is momentous news as the law provides national funding for violence prevention, victim support resources, research, and guidance for agencies’ response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

(Excerpts from Higher Ed News) -The Carnegie classifications are an enduring institution in higher education, but they’re about to undergo a facelift that could be dramatic. Tim Knowles, president of the Carnegie Foundation, and Ted Mitchell, president of ACE, discussed the partnership and why the time is right to refresh the classifications.

(Excerpts from Higher Ed News) -A new report offers a road map for how campus leaders can create a culture of free expression, write former Vermont governor Jim Douglas and former Washington governor Chris Gregoire.

(Excerpt from ACE News) - President Biden has signed a $1.5 trillion spending bill that funds the government through the end of September, a package that includes all 12 annual appropriations bills for FY 2022 along with $13.6 billion in support for Ukraine and refugees fleeing the Russian invasion.

(Excerpt from the Miami Herald) - A controversial higher education bill that affects tenured faculty and changes the accreditation process for Florida universities is headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk for signing, but not before Democratic lawmakers cautioned it would do more harm than good.

(Excerpt from the Ohio Capital Journal) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is granting Temporary Protected Status (TPS) that will shield Ukrainian nationals living in the United States from deportation, following pressure from members of Congress.

(Excerpt from Inside Higher Ed News) - The Education Department clarified this week that income-share agreements in higher education are private loans. As loan providers, the companies that provide these agreements are regulated in different ways than before the clarification, and colleges have specific requirements in terms of how they promote the arrangements.

(Excerpts from Higher Ed News) - At campuses across the country, students are marching, waving blue-and-yellow flags, and raising funds and awareness to support Ukrainians as they fight back against the Russian invasion.

(Excerpts from Higher Ed News) -The University of Washington has returned a $5 million gift from a donor intended for an Israel studies program, setting off a debate about academic freedom at the university and beyond.

(Excerpt from Inside Higher Ed News) - Eight states and one territory are asking the Department of Education to waive a requirement that stipulates they must continue funding higher education at or above current levels in order to keep the federal dollars they received during the pandemic.

(Excerpt from The Chronicle of Higher Education) - The U.S. Department of Justice is ending a Trump-era investigation of national-security threats from China following several failed prosecutions of American university researchers for their ties to China.

(Excerpts from Higher Ed News) - When Joseph I. Castro, chancellor of the California State University system, resigned Thursday amid criticism over his past handling of sexual misconduct allegations against a subordinate, he became the fourth prominent higher education leader to depart his institution in recent months.

(Excerpts from Higher Ed News) - Charitable giving to U.S. colleges and universities increased by nearly 7 percent in fiscal year 2021, according to the latest Voluntary Support of Education survey by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

(Excerpts from ACE) - ACE and 63 other organizations today requested that Congress immediately take steps to support and protect historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) following the recent wave of bomb threats made against HBCUs around the country.

(Excerpts from Higher Ed News) - The Florida Senate Education Committee approved a bill Tuesday that would require public colleges and universities in the state to switch accrediting agencies at the end of each accreditation cycle.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed) - Harvard faces a lawsuit by three graduate students who say for years it ignored their warnings and complaints about a prominent anthropologist before making minimal findings against him.

Excerpts from the US Dept of Education News) - Today, the U.S. Department of Education released updates to the College Scorecard that make the tool more useful for students and families weighing college options. The tool also includes new and updated information that may be beneficial to school counselors, college access providers, researchers, and other critical stakeholders.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed) - State legislation prohibiting the teaching of so-called divisive concepts is increasingly directed at higher education, not just K-12 schools, according to a new analysis by PEN America. PEN, which tracks what it calls educational “gag order” bills throughout the year, says that just 26 percent of state bills proposed in 2021 explicitly addressed public colleges and universities.

(Excerpts from UFIT News) - Social engineering is the term for exploiting human psychology, rather than traditional hacking techniques, to gain access to buildings, systems, devices, or data. For example, a social engineer might call a UF phone number and pose as an IT support person, trying to trick the employee into divulging passwords

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed News) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear two cases on affirmative action in college admissions: one involving Harvard University and the other the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

(Excerpts from The Washington Post) - For many students, the grants and scholarships they receive determine which college they attend or whether higher education is even within reach. But college and universities will have a tough time this year giving admitted students a clear, timely picture of their financial aid award.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed News) - A class action suit was filed Sunday against 16 private colleges and universities, charging them with running a “cartel” and violating antitrust laws in the way they calculate aid awards, thus forcing thousands of students to pay more than they should have to in order to enroll.

(Excerpts from ED News) - The U.S. Department of Education (Department) issued a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) to Chief State School Officers detailing information about federal funds and resources available to support Afghan children and their families, who have recently arrived or may be arriving soon to states and school districts across the country.

(Excepts from DOJ News) - UC San Diego Health, the academic health system of the University of California, San Diego, has paid $2.98 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by ordering medically unnecessary genetic testing reimbursed by Medicare.

(Excerpts from UFIT News) - Staying cyber secure is a great new year resolution that won’t have you counting calories or committing to more exercise! By adopting some of the resolutions below, the UF community can make a huge difference to their overall cybersecurity safety (also known as your “security posture”).

(Excerpts from CNBC News) - Amid concerns about the new omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus, the Biden administration will extend the payment pause for federal student loan borrowers until May 1.

(Excerpts from DOJ Justice News) - The former Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department was convicted by a federal jury today in connection with lying to federal authorities about his affiliation with the People’s Republic of China’s Thousand Talents Program and the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in Wuhan, China, as well as failing to report income he received from WUT.

(Excerpts from JDSupra News and Insights) - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency announces an extension to I-9 compliance flexibility rules relating to Form I-9 compliance that was initially granted in March of 2020 at the onset of COVID-19. Specifically, the guidance states: “This extension will continue to apply the guidance previously issued for employees hired on or after April 1, 2021 and work exclusively in a remote setting due to COVID-19-related precautions.

(Excepts from Higher Ed News) Ransomware attacks are skyrocketing at a time when many colleges are finding they can’t afford cyberinsurance — or can’t even get it. For both community colleges and four-year institutions, cyberthreats are now very pronounced, and that reality has led to more institutions facing cyberinsurance premium hikes of as much as 400 percent—or even discovering they are uninsurable.

(Excerpts from Higher Ed Dive) - The FL Board of Governors put The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it expects to release in April its proposed regulation governing Title IX, the federal law banning sex discrimination and violence in educational settings.

(Excerpts from NCCA News) - A former Auburn men's basketball associate head coach violated NCAA ethical conduct rules when he accepted $91,500 in bribes from a financial advisor in exchange for impermissibly influencing student-athletes and their families, according to a decision released by a Division I Committee on Infractions panel.

Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed) Students at multiple law schools are pressuring administrators to sever ties with LexisNexis and Westlaw, which they claim help the Department of Homeland Security target undocumented immigrants. The LexisNexis and Westlaw research databases are vital for law schools and the students they serve, who will go on to use these tools throughout their legal careers.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed) - Borrowers are less than three months away from having to resume making payments on their student loans, and although loan servicers are well into the process of executing the Department of Education’s transition plan, a huge majority of borrowers say they aren’t financially prepared for repayment to begin.

(Excerpts from Campus Safety News) - Since the start of the pandemic, more than eight and 10 hospitals have reported experiencing an Internet of Things (IoT) cyberattack, according to a new joint report. “Healthcare IoT Security Operations Maturity — A Rationalized Approach to a New Normal,” released by Medigate and Crowdstrike, highlights recent cyberattack trends and emphasizes the need for hardened cybersecurityin healthcare facilities.

(Excerpts from ACE News) - ACE joined seven other organizations in issuing a statement today urging the federal government to engage in efforts, in coordination with the higher education community, to return international student enrollment to pre-pandemic numbers and support policies that encourage international students and exchanges.

(Excerpts from the Los Angeles Times) - The NCAA on Monday set the stage for a dramatic restructuring of college sports that would give each of its three divisions the power to govern itself. The rewritten constitution focuses more on the NCAA’s broader goals of athlete welfare than the previous version, which took a more granular approach.

(Excerpts from NPR News) - The U.S. Department of Education says it will reach out to federal student loan borrowers who may have been prematurely denied loan forgiveness under the revamped Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program and will reprocess their applications.

(Excerpts from the FL BOG Guidance) - The FL Board of Governors put together a Foreign Influence Submission & Guidance document summarizing the requirements of House Bill 7017. The guidance provides filing specifications and audit requirements. Specifically, the bill created five new laws.

(Excerpts from the Higher Ed Dive) - A network of 66 top U.S. research universities has agreed to a new set of principles on sexual harassment that aims to bolster transparency during hiring processes and eradicate misconduct.

(Excerpts from the News&Observer) - UNC-Chapel Hill did not discriminate against white and Asian American applicants and can keep using race as a factor in its undergraduate admissions process, a federal judge ruled Monday.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed News) - The Department of Education has settled a lawsuit filed in 2019 over its failure to properly manage its promise of student loan forgiveness for public employees.

(Excerpts from American Council on Education (ACE) News) - ACE, in collaboration with the Institute of International Education, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and the Association of American Universities has put together a resource kit to help colleges and universities ensure that necessary structures and support networks are in place to welcome Afghan students and scholars.

(Excerpts from The Washington Post) - Navient, one of the nation’s largest student loan companies, said Tuesday it has struck an agreement to transfer the 5.6 million accounts it manages on behalf of the Education Department to Maximus, another loan servicer.

(Excerpts from The American Council on Education (ACE) - As ACE President Ted Mitchell said in a statement last week on the release of the draft text, the legislation represents a major step toward providing greater access to an affordable, high-quality college education for millions of low- and middle-income students.

(Excerpts from The New York Times) - Nearly $10 billion in student loan debt has been wiped away since President Biden took office, the most sweeping attempt to fix badly broken parts of the federal student loan system in at least a decade.

(Excerpts from Campus Safety News) - The U.S. Department of Education announced on Aug. 24 it will stop enforcing a new rule in the 2020 Title IX regulations that prohibits decision-makers in sexual misconduct investigations from using evidence or statements from someone who did not participate in cross-examination at a live hearing.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed) - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action against a company offering income-share agreements to help students finance their degrees. The company misrepresented its product and failed to comply with federal consumer financial law, according to the federal agency.

(Excerpts from Los Angeles Times) - U.S. education officials issued a warning Thursday to thousands of colleges and universities across the nation to be on alert for fraud after California authorities uncovered a massive scam attempt involving 65,000 federal financial aid applications filed by fake community college students.

(Excerpts from WFYI News) - The U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday it is expanding loan forgiveness to 115,000 additional former students of ITT Technical Institute, providing $1.1 billion in loan relief to student borrowers defrauded by the defunct school.

(Excerpts from the Department of Education) - Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced that the office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) has retroactively waived interest on loans held by more than 47,000 current and former active-duty service members.

(Excerpts from the U.S. Department of Education Press Release) - Over 323,000 borrowers who have a total and permanent disability (TPD) will receive more than $5.8 billion in automatic student loan discharges due to a new regulation announced today by the U.S. Department of Education.

(Excerpts from ADA American Dental Association) - People experiencing “long COVID” — a condition when COVID-19 symptoms last months after being infected, or when new or recurring symptoms occur at a later time — may be protected from discrimination under federal laws, according to a new guidance issued by the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed News) - With its hands tied by NCAA's lack of rules governing athletes' sexual violence, infractions panel leaves Baylor barely punished for institutional student sexual assault scandal.

(Excerpts from American Council on Education News) - ACE and 60 other higher education groups sent a letter to congressional leaders last week asking lawmakers to quickly pass legislation to permanently protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and Dreamers.

(Excerpts from The New York Times) - The Education Department announced Friday that it would continue a moratorium on federal student loan payments through Jan. 31, extending emergency relief for millions of borrowers that had been set to expire next month.

(Excerpts from Campus Safety News) - In the first six months of 2021, education saw a 615% spike in ransomware incidents, while healthcare experienced a 594% increase. According to SonicWall’s 2021 Cyber Threat Report, there have been a total of 304.7 million global ransomware attacks, which is already more than the 304.6 million total from last year. That’s good enough for an increase of 151%.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed News) - The U.S. Departments of Education and State issued a joint statement of principles Monday articulating “a renewed U.S. commitment to international education.”

(Excerpts from The Chronicle of Higher Education) - The Education Department on Tuesday issued new guidance for how colleges should investigate sexual misconduct under Title IX, the federal gender-equity law.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed News) - A coalition of 24 higher education associations, organizations and advocacy groups launched a national campaign today in support of doubling the maximum Pell Grant by the program's 50th anniversary, which will be next June.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed News) - The Biden administration formally withdrew a rule proposed by the Trump administration that would have required international students to reapply for student visas after fixed terms of up to four years.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed) For the more than 500 American colleges that plan to require COVID-19 vaccines for students coming to campus this fall, a major challenge will be implementing this requirement for international students who might not have access to one of the three vaccines currently authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in the U.S.

(Excerpts of The Chronicle of Higher Education) - Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida signed legislation on Tuesday that requires public colleges to survey their level of “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity,” among other things. Faculty groups have criticized the new law as unnecessary and potentially chilling.

(Excerpts of The New York Times) - The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday that the N.C.A.A. cannot bar relatively modest payments to student-athletes in the name of amateurism. The decision, based on antitrust law, came as the business model of college sports is under increasing pressure.

(Excerpts from US Dept. Ed News) - The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights today issued a Notice of Interpretation explaining that it will enforce Title IX's prohibition on discrimination on the basis of sex to include: (1) discrimination based on sexual orientation; and (2) discrimination based on gender identity.

(Excerpts from The Washington Post) - Billionaire MacKenzie Scott announced Tuesday another massive round of donations, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, to colleges and universities that are not the usual beneficiaries of big-time philanthropy in higher education.

(Excerpts from AP News) - Florida has cleared the way for college athletes in the state to earn money from endorsement deals as soon as next summer. That comes even as some in college sports want to slow things down due to concerns about how athlete compensation will actually work.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed News) - The Department of Education began five days of public hearings Monday, during which it expects to hear from 600 individuals about how it can improve Title IX enforcement, following a directive from President Biden to re-examine the controversial regulations put in place by the Trump administration.

(Excerpts form the Florida Senate Website)- This bill requires public disclosure of foreign gifts, scrutiny of grant applicants and vendors with certain foreign connections, and thorough scrutiny of foreign applicants for research positions and of foreign travel and activities of employees of major research institutions.

(Excerpts from the China Global Television Network) - China's newly revised Law on the Protection of Minors took effect on June 1, also known as Children's Day. New provisions were added regarding protecting minors on the internet.

(Excerpts from the New York Times) - The Supreme Court is set to consider next week whether to hear a challenge to Harvard’s race-conscious admissions program. If the justices take the case, a reasonably safe bet,affirmative action in higher education, which has survived several close calls at the court, will again be in peril.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed) – Democrats in Congress are looking to change the college sports landscape with new legislation that would classify college athletes as employees of their institutions and give them the power to bargain collectively.

(Excerpts from LA Times) - International students are at a critical moment in their college education, panicked that huge backlogs for visas requests, shuttered consulates and bureaucratic rules that limit access to the U.S. may derail their long-awaited return to campus.

(Excerpts from Higher Ed Dive) -The American Council on Education told Senate leaders this week it has concerns about recent federal proposals that would create stricter requirements for colleges' reporting of foreign gifts and contracts.

(Excerpts from DOJ News) The Justice Department announced today the signing of two agreements with community colleges to remove barriers experienced by students with disabilities, including veterans.

(Excerpts from Higher Ed Dive) Federal agencies have extended and clarified flexibilities for international students attending U.S. colleges during the 2021-22 academic year.

(Excerpts from Inside Higher Ed News) The reintroduced College Transparency Act is receiving broad support across the political spectrum and from professional organizations, but opponents of the bill in higher education are concerned about how students’ information would be shared with the federal government

(Excerpts from Bloomberg News) A broad attempt by Congress to stem China’s influence could put at risk research collaborations and funding that U.S. universities count on by subjecting some foreign gifts and contracts to national security reviews.

(Excerpts from Higher Ed Dive) Zoom announced a policy change this week that gives colleges and universities more control over the virtual events that they host on the video conferencing platform.

(Excerpts from Florida Politics) Two bills cracking down on foreign espionage in research and higher education cleared second reading on the House floor and are ready for a final vote.

(Excerpts from Insider Ed News) Multiple higher education institutions have now confirmed they were victims of data theft related to a security flaw in file transfer software sold by IT security company Accellion, but the true scale of the data breach is still not fully understood.

(Excerpts from The Chronicle of Higher Education) Less than a year after colleges scrambled to carry out sweeping new requirements for handling sexual misconduct cases, campus officials will have to prepare for yet another round of Title IX changes.

(Excerpts from Higher Ed News) President Biden unveiled his new infrastructure legislation plan Wednesday, proposing billions of dollars for higher education over eight years. The plan, which is about $2 trillion in total, would give $12 billion to updating infrastructure in community colleges and $50 million to the National Science Foundation. Historically Black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions would also be in for more funding under the proposal.

(Excerpts from NPR News) As March Madness plays out on TV, the U.S. Supreme Court takes a rare excursion into sports law Wednesday in a case testing whether the NCAA's limits on compensation for student-athletes violate the nation's antitrust laws.

(Excerpts from Higher Ed Dive News) The U.S. Department of Education is giving colleges more flexibility to use federal relief money provided under the second major coronavirus rescue package, which Congress passed in December.

(Excerpts from the Wall Street Journal) Congress passed the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief legislation Wednesday, which provides about $40 billion for higher education including provisions for financial aid and student loan forgiveness.At least 50% of the total funds each institution receives must go directly to students for emergency financial aid.

In an executive order signed Monday morning, Biden directed the Department of Education to review policies implemented by Donald Trump’s administration, including changes to Title IX regulations that prohibit sex discrimination in federally-funded institutions.

The U.S. Citizenship Act (USCA), a sweeping immigration bill that would create an eight-year path to citizenship for millions of immigrants already in the country and provide an even faster track for Dreamers, was introduced Feb. 18 by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA).

As part of its ongoing efforts to ease the economic burden on millions of Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Education—in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)—issued guidance to postsecondary institutions to inform them about temporarily expanded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligibility for students in need.

Louisiana State University (LSU) is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education regarding how the school reported and investigated Clery Act

A public health emergency bill proposed by a group of Democratic Congressional members takes aim at the privacy and security of much-needed COVID-19-tech.

One of the first executive orders signed by President Joe Biden affirms that gender identity and sexual orientation are protected classes under federal sex discrimination laws.

Federal guidance for enrolling international students in programs operating in hybrid or online modes due to the pandemic remains the same for the spring term

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Friday that pandemic relief for about 41 million federal student loan borrowers will continue until Jan. 31.

A rheumatology professor and researcher with strong ties to China pleaded guilty to making false statements to federal authorities as part of an immunology research fraud scheme.

ACE and 23 other higher education associations filed two briefs Friday supporting a pair of legal challenges to new Trump administration rules restricting H-1B visas for highly skilled workers.