Events

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

  • Campus on Trial: Litigation Management for Busy College Counsel

    Event Details About this Event Litigation is increasingly an inevitability in the postsecondary world. Even when college and university attorneys do everything right and their clients follow the law, institutions may still find themselves defending their decisions in court. Strategic pre-planning is key to successfully meeting the moment when a complaint and service waiver comes […]

  • Executive Branch Updates: A New Executive Order on “Saving College Sports”

    Event Details About this Event President Trump signed an executive order (EO) titled “Saving College Sports” on July 24, 2025, intended to address the rapidly changing landscape of collegiate athlete compensation. The EO focuses on third-party and pay-for-play payments, preserving and expanding opportunities in non-revenue and women’s sports, and protecting college athletics from antitrust and […]

  • Preparing for Kick Off: Athletics Issues for 2025-2026

    Event Details About this Event The first college games and competitions of the academic year are kicking off, but that doesn’t mean legal issues surrounding college sports had an off-season. Institutions are working on implementation of the House settlement along with quick-moving legal issues surrounding NIL and NCAA policies, the Saving College Sports Executive Order from the […]

  • Executive Branch Updates: NIH v. APHA and Federal Grant Terminations

    Event Details About this Event In a 5-4 ruling on August 21st, the Supreme Court lifted a stay on the cancellation of approximately $783 billion in NIH grants. The Trump Administration linked the canceled grants to DEI efforts. Notably, the fractured ruling held that legal challenges to the grant terminations were “contract disputes” which should […]

  • Immigration Update: Navigating Current and Emerging Developments in Higher Education

    Event Details About this Event The beginning of the academic year comes with a renewed focus on immigration issues. SEVIS terminations, increased Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforcement activities, heightened scrutiny of non-citizens in the visa application process, and potential changes in hiring and workplace practices constitute some of the increasingly complex immigration challenges facing […]

  • Executive Branch Updates: H-1B Visa Developments

    Event Details About this Event On September 19, 2025, President Trump signed a Proclamation, “Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers,” which instituted a $100,000 application fee for new H-1B visa applications and directed several executive branch agencies to initiate rulemaking to reform aspects of the program. A few days later on September 24, 2025, […]

  • Disability Accommodations: DEIA, Technical Standards, and Beyond

    Event Details About this Event Colleges and universities continue to encounter novel and complex disability accommodation issues. The advice of counsel is increasingly required to balance the many legal, compliance, and practical factors at play to arrive at a positive and reasonable accommodation outcome for all involved parties. The legal and policy landscape surrounding disability […]

  • Title VI Compliance: Preventing and Addressing National Origin and Shared Ancestry Discrimination and Harassment

    Event Details About this Event Colleges and universities across the country have long grappled with responding to complaints of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Arab discrimination and harassment. Over the past two years, institutions have been subject to numerous government investigations into the aftermath of their responses to campus protests and unrest following the attacks on October […]

  • Executive Branch Updates: Advising Clients on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education

    Event Details About this Event On October 1, the U.S. Secretary of Education invited nine universities to enter into a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The Compact essentially proposed the following agreement: access to “multiple positive benefits” including preferential access to federal funds in return for adherence to a slew of substantial administration […]