1+ week, 4+ day ago   (415+ words) Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general of the agency’s civil rights division, said federal officials are “assessing next steps.” In its lawsuit, the DOJ leaned on June 2025 findings from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services alleging Harvard violated…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1263+ words) Plaintiffs allege the Ivy League institution instead “actively participated in and amplified” racial and political targeting of its campus members. Columbia University is facing a civil rights lawsuit from a group of current and former students and employees who allege…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (806+ words) However, U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley dismissed the claims against Common App and other noncollege defendants. Early decision admissions — when a prospective student pledges to enroll at a college if they are offered acceptance there — is often viewed as a way…...

4+ week, 20+ hour ago   (812+ words) In court documents, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and others shared which words they used to target grants. Soon after President Donald Trump retook office, researchers and academics across the country began receiving startling news. They…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (680+ words) The National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and other agencies cut awards over terms like “diversity” and “health equity.” Shortly after retaking office, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders targeting DEI initiatives, including one directing federal…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (698+ words) The ruling is the latest in the long-running Sweet v. McMahon settlement, which promises timely decisions on borrower defense claims or automatic debt relief. The decision is just the latest in the Sweet v. McMahon case, which was originally filed in 2019 under…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (670+ words) The agency took aim at the Davis Scale, a metric tracking socioeconomic advantage that has helped the institution maintain diversity in its student body. The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday alleged that the University of California, Davis’ medical school violated…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1255+ words) A federal judge rejected the plaintiffs’ request to reinstate the shuttered publications while the legal battle over their closure continues. The University of Alabama does not have to reinstate two student magazines while a lawsuit against their indefinite suspension plays…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (607+ words) U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel called one of the military college’s rules a “broad and standardless intrusion” on civilian faculty’s constitutional rights. Bakken, a civilian who has worked at West Point since 2000, alleged the two policies are intended to "control, chill…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (656+ words) The agency sued the University of California, arguing its Los Angeles campus was “deliberately indifferent” to harassment of Jewish and Israeli students. The lawsuit’s allegations focus largely on pro-Palestinian campus demonstrations that erupted in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war,…...