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Every employee of a higher education institution has an obligation to respond in some way to a complaint of sex discrimination. On April 19, 2024, the Department of Education (Department) [...]

This is part one of a series examining the most topical changes contained in the new Title IX regulations applicable to higher education released by the U.S. Department of Education [...]

It is now spring, and if you are an educational entity, it is now the season to begin preparations for summer professional development for the upcoming school year. So you [...]

On October 24, 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration ('Administration'), as part of its ongoing efforts to strengthen oversight and accountability with regard to colleges and universities, released the final regulations relating [...]

On October 31, 2023, the U.S. Department of Education published a final rule that included revisions to four different regulatory areas: financial responsibility, administrative capability, certification procedures and ability-to-benefit programs. [...]

Highlights The U.S. Department of Education has announced new regulations for colleges and universities that cover four broad areas: financial responsibility, administrative capability, certification and ability-to-benefit. The new requirements will [...]

Highlights The U.S. Department of Education has announced new regulations for colleges and universities that cover four broad areas: financial responsibility, administrative capability, certification and ability-to-benefit. This Holland & Knight [...]

Highlights The U.S. Department of Education released new Financial Responsibility regulations that help protect students and taxpayers when institutions of higher education self-disclose specified financial warning signs or 'triggering events.' [...]

On September 27, 2023, the U.S. Department of Education published the final rule for financial value transparency and gainful employment, which restores an accountability and eligibility framework for career training [...]

Last Thursday, April 6, 2023, the United States Department of Education (USDOE or Department) issued Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding sex-related criteria for participation on female and male athletic [...]

On May 26, 2023, the U.S. Department of Education (the 'Department') announced that it would delay release of the final revisions to the regulations implementing Title IX (the 'Title IX [...]

As discussed in our previous alert, on June 23, 2022, the 50th anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ('Title IX'), the U.S. Department of Education (the [...]

On April 13, 2023, the United States Department of Education (the 'DOE') published proposed regulations intended to address participation of transgender students in school athletic programs. The proposed changes would [...]

On June 23, 2022, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a federal law [...]

Today, on the 50thAnniversary of Title IX, the U.S. Department of Education issued 701 pages of proposed amendments to the Title IX federal regulations. Long awaited, the Biden Administration's proposal [...]

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has updated its plans to issue amendments to Title IX regulations. In a statement by ED's Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Catherine Lhamon, ED [...]

To close out this series of summaries of the first session of Negotiated Rulemaking, today UpdateEd looks at the U.S. Department of Education's proposed changes to regulations regarding pre-dispute arbitration [...]

On Friday, October 8, 2021, the U.S. Department of Education wrapped up its first week-long session of the (virtual) Affordability and Student Loan Negotiated Rulemaking. The Department's agenda (see here) [...]

Executive Summary: June is Pride Month. On June 16, 2021, Miguel Cardona, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education (the 'Department') under President Joe Biden, issued a Notice of Interpretation [...]

In This Issue: Biden administration releases FY22 budget proposal, Senate follows House with return of earmarks, Department of Education higher education regulatory agenda, Title IX rule hearing, state legislatures update [...]

On January 8, 2021, the Department of Education ('Department') publicly released a 13-page internal memorandum from the Department's Office of the General Counsel to the Department's Office for Civil Rights [...]

During a time when students and educational institutions are struggling to effectively conclude the spring semester through various distance-learning platforms due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Education [...]

Following the US Department of Education's (ED) release of guidance to accrediting agencies on March 17, including the flexibility to bypass public comment periods and adoption by full agency membership, [...]

The negotiated rulemaking committee focused on accreditation and innovation reached consensus on three buckets of issues. In a turn of events that seemed unlikely just weeks ago, on April 3 [...]

On June 29, the Department of Education announced the portion of the proposed distance education rule relating to authorization of foreign locations of domestic institutions went into effect on July [...]

On October 12, 2016, the U.S. Department of Education issued its long-awaited final rule regarding teacher preparation programs. After nearly five years and a fair amount of compromise, the final [...]

Almost five years ago, the Department of Education issued its 'Dear Colleague' letter on Title IX and sexual violence. The letter was a not-so-subtle reminder that Title IX requires federally [...]

On June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that no state could limit or prohibit same-sex marriages in an opinion that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all within its [...]

On October 31 of last year, the U.S. Department of Education finally promulgated its much anticipated 'gainful employment' or 'GE' regulations. The new rules, which become effective July 1, 2015, [...]

Katrina Chapman is an Associate, and Paul Lannon Jr. and Miriam McKendall are Partners in Holland & Knight's Boston office. HIGHLIGHTS: The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) published final regulations [...]

The U.S. Department of Education has made a concerted effort in recent years to increase the number of program reviews conducted annually at both for-profit and non-profit institutions. In a [...]

On Oct. 20, 2014, the Department of Education issued new regulations implementing changes to the Clery Act by the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA). The regulations are [...]

On Monday, the Department of Education published final regulations on how colleges and universities should prevent, report, and respond to sexual offenses on campus. These regulations interpret changes recently made [...]

October 1st has arrived. As all are no doubt aware, colleges and universities are now required to issue Annual Safety Reports (ASR) to students, employees, and prospective students that attempt [...]

As many in higher education are aware, on March 25 of this year, the U.S. Department of Education released proposed regulations concerning what it terms 'gainful employment' or 'GE' programs. [...]

One of the more common questions we receive in our higher education practice concerns whether an institution may offer a student or alumni referral program without running afoul of federal [...]

Following the initial release of the well-known and controversial 2010 GAO report concerning alleged abuses in the for-profit sector, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan issued a public letter to Senators [...]

In today's Federal Register, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published the long-awaited regulations (Final Rule) implementing most of the privacy and security provisions [...]

On January 24, 2013, the U.S. Department of Education began distributing a directive mandating that students with disabilities be included in sports programs or equal alternative options. Under this new [...]

With that disarming salutation, a little over a year ago Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced new Department of Education mandates, issued under Title IX [...]

The CFPB and the Department of Education released a private student loan market study. In its press release, the CFPB noted that the study generally found that the private student [...]

In terms of legal and regulatory developments with significant consequences for higher education institutions, 2012 is picking up where 2011 left off. In fact, in a speech at the University [...]

On 29 October 2010, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) published two sets of final regulations that address a number of important matters for institutions that participate in student financial [...]

On Dec. 9, 2008, the U.S. Department of Education published final regulations to amend its current rules implementing the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). FERPA protects educational records [...]

Colleges and universities have waited 10 years for the Department of Education (DOE) to issue regulations that define permissible compensation programs for student recruiters. Since 1992, when Congress enacted Title [...]