BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//National Association of College and University Attorneys - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:National Association of College and University Attorneys X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://dev.nacua.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for National Association of College and University Attorneys REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260203T192207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T170051Z UID:38760-1761739200-1761746400@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Title VI Compliance: Preventing and Addressing National Origin and Shared Ancestry Discrimination and Harassment DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nColleges 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 7\, 2023. The challenges faced by institutions are significant and consequential: simultaneously ensuring a welcoming and non-discriminatory educational experience for students\, while respecting core constitutional and academic freedoms. However\, good faith efforts to achieve a balance and avoid escalation have sometimes led to inconsistent policy enforcement\, leaving many students feeling unwelcome and unsafe on campus. This webinar will consider and evaluate foundational principles\, evolving approaches\, and leading considerations to Title VI compliance in the context of the government’s current focus on antisemitism\, but will be broadly applicable to preventing and addressing all forms of national origin and shared ancestry discrimination\, including anti-Arab\, and anti-Muslim harassment.   \n\n\n\nPlease join us for this two-hour webinar in which two experienced practitioners will cover: \n\n\n\n\nThe legal foundation\, current government guidance\, and enforcement posture applicable to complaints and incidents of harassment and other forms of discrimination based on national origin and shared ancestry;\n\n\n\nLegal and practical considerations for addressing protests and expressive activity that may result in complaints of discrimination and harassment\, including antisemitism and Islamophobia;\n\n\n\nApproaches to identifying and remedying a hostile environment based on national origin harassment on campus; understanding the “totality of circumstances” that may contribute to a hostile environment for students and other campus constituents; properly assessing and acting on third-party and anonymous complaints; developing a campus culture that supports civil discourse; and\n\n\n\nPractical and procedural steps that counsel and campus partners can take in anticipation of potential government inquiries into institutional compliance with Title VI\, including recent calls to appoint Title VI Coordinators on campuses.\n\n\n\n\nWho Should Attend? \n\n\n\nThis webinar will be of interest to all college and university counsel\, particularly those who advise on Title VI matters (including campus policies on harassment and other forms of discrimination)\, student conduct\, compliance\, and belonging\, access\, and engagement\, as well as investigators and campus administrators with responsibilities related to these areas. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\n\n\nTimeSession Topic12:00 P.M.Welcome and IntroductionsLegal Foundation\, Current Guidance\, and Enforcement PostureHostile EnvironmentProtests1:00 P.M.Q&AScenarios/HypotheticalsPractical TakeawaysQ&A2:00 P.M.Conclusion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar Recording\n\n\n\nMembers who purchase the Live Webinar will receive access to the Post-Event Recording in the Online Learning Center at no additional charge. Non-members will not have post-event access to the recording or the materials and should plan to download materials during the live webinar. \n\n\n\nIf you are a member and couldn’t attend live\, the event recording will be available for purchase in our Online Learning Center. The recording may be replayed at any time\, but may not be copied\, posted\, or otherwise distributed within or outside of the institution\, organization\, or firm. The license entitles the purchaser to replay the recording at one campus or at one location of any organization or firm. You can purchase the Post-Event Recording here. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\nPurchase Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/title-vi-compliance-preventing-and-addressing-national-origin-and-shared-ancestry-discrimination-and-harassment/ CATEGORIES:Virtual,Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/10.29.25-Webinar-Header.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T150000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260203T195800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260319T134510Z UID:38778-1760533200-1760540400@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Disability Accommodations: DEIA\, Technical Standards\, and Beyond DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nColleges 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 accommodations is also evolving\, with continued focus on disability for enforcement actions coupled with shifting standards in adverse employment decisions. These developments warrant renewed attention by counsel to the advice provided in situations involving disability accommodations\, as well as institutional policies\, processes\, and resources for supporting disabled members of the campus community.    \n\n\n\nPlease join us for this two-hour webinar in which two experienced practitioners will cover:    \n\n\n\n\nTakeaways and trends from recent case law regarding shifting standards in Title VII\, state discrimination law\, and the ADA;\n\n\n\nAn overview of reasonable accommodations in the student conduct process\, including the impact on students with temporary or permanent disabilities;\n\n\n\nDiscussion of approaches to issues at the intersection of reasonable accommodations and technical standards for certain programs of study and clinical placements; and\n\n\n\nOther emerging considerations and trends in the accommodations space\, including fitness for duty.\n\n\n\n\nWho Should Attend? \n\n\n\nThis webinar will be of interest to college and university counsel who advise on disability issues for both students and staff\, disability services staff\, as well as campus administrators with responsibilities related to these areas. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\n\n\nTimeSession Topic1:00pmWelcome and IntroductionsTrends from Developing Enforcement and Other Government ActionReasonable Disability Accommodations in the Student Conduct Process1:45pmQ&AIntersection of Reasonable Disability Accommodations and Technical Standards for Certain Programs of Study and Clinical PlacementsOther Emerging Considerations2:45pmQ&AConclusion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar Recording\n\n\n\nMembers who purchase the Live Webinar will receive access to the Post-Event Recording in the Online Learning Center at no additional charge. Non-members will not have post-event access to the recording or the materials and should plan to download materials during the live webinar. \n\n\n\nIf you are a member and couldn’t attend live\, the event recording will be available for purchase in our Online Learning Center. The recording may be replayed at any time\, but may not be copied\, posted\, or otherwise distributed within or outside of the institution\, organization\, or firm. The license entitles the purchaser to replay the recording at one campus or at one location of any organization or firm. You can purchase the Post-Event Recording here. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\nPurchase Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCooperating Associations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/disability-accommodations-deia-technical-standards-and-beyond/ CATEGORIES:Virtual,Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/10.15.25-Webinar-Header-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251001T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251001T133000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260109T215423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T175316Z UID:37334-1759323600-1759325400@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Executive Branch Updates: H-1B Visa Developments DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nOn 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\, the Department of Homeland Security issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking outlining its intent “to implement a weighted selection process that would generally favor the allocation of H-1B visas to higher skilled and higher paid aliens.”  Many questions remain on the specific impacts of these developments on colleges and universities\, which have historically recruited many foreign faculty and researchers entering the country on H-1B visas\, and which have remained exempt from certain aspects of the program’s requirements. Please stream this 30-minute audio-only briefing during which immigration law experts\, Leigh Cole and Kara Lynum\, will provide an overview of the legal and practical considerations accompanying these developments\, and the potential impacts on higher education institutions.   Note: This program is part of NACUA’s “Executive Branch Updates” series\, which follows the Transition Updates: The First 100 Days series.   \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBriefing Recording\n\n\n\nThis briefing recording is complimentary to NACUA members and is available for NACUA members to access on demand through Online Learning Center. \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at nacua@nacua.org if you have any issues accessing the briefing. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/executive-branch-updates-h-1b-visa-developments/ CATEGORIES:Briefing,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/10.01.25-Briefing-Header.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20250918T181332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T170036Z UID:101-1758628800-1758636000@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Immigration Update: Navigating Current and Emerging Developments in Higher Education DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nThe 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 institutions. Simultaneously\, several high-profile cases are pending in federal courts across the United States\, leaving the future of these challenges (or perhaps immigrations issues) unclear. \n\n\n\nPlease join us for this two-hour webinar in which three experienced practitioners will cover topics\, including: \n\n\n\n\nAn overview of issues involving undocumented students and DACA recipients;\n\n\n\nChallenges to consider when working with international students and faculty;\n\n\n\nOverview and discussion of increased immigration enforcement affecting campuses;\n\n\n\nEmerging considerations and trends that may impact the work of college and university lawyers in the near future.\n\n\n\n\nWho Should Attend?  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will be of interest to college and university counsel who advise on immigration and international issues\, as well as campus administrators with responsibilities related to these areas. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\n\n\nTimeSession Topic12:00 P.M.Welcome and IntroductionsAgendaUndocumented Students and DACA RecipientsInternational Students and Faculty1:05 P.M.Q&AImmigration Enforcement on CampusConsiderations for the Future1:45 P.M.Q&A2:00 P.M.Conclusion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar Recording\n\n\n\nMembers who purchase the Live Webinar will receive access to the Post-Event Recording in the Online Learning Center at no additional charge. Non-members will not have post-event access to the recording or the materials and should plan to download materials during the live webinar. \n\n\n\nIf you are a member and couldn’t attend live\, the event recording will be available for purchase in our Online Learning Center. 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You can purchase the Post-Event Recording here. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\nPurchase Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCooperating Associations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/immigration-update-navigating-current-and-emerging-developments-in-higher-education/ CATEGORIES:Virtual,Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/09.23.25-Webinar-Header-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T123000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260109T221256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T200832Z UID:37339-1757073600-1757075400@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Executive Branch Updates: NIH v. APHA and Federal Grant Terminations DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nIn 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 be brought in the Court of Federal Claims. Also in a 5-4 outcome\, the Court left in place a separate portion of the lower court ruling\, which vacated internal NIH guidance documents surrounding the agency’s policy priorities that were used to justify grant terminations. This development further highlights the need for colleges and university counsel to continue to plan for and respond to funder requests and determinations\, including future grant terminations.  \n\n\n\nPlease enjoy this complimentary 45-minute audio-only briefing that discusses the current landscape as of the time of the recording on September 5\, 2025. In this on-demand briefing\, NACUA experts\, Michelle Gluck\, Associate General Counsel at The Pennsylvania State University\, William Ferreira\, Partner at Hogan Lovells\, and Aleks Sverdlov\, Counsel at Hogan Lovells will:  \n\n\n\n\nOutline the meaning and impact of the Supreme Court ruling;\n\n\n\nProvide updated insights on the process and considerations for challenging grant terminations;\n\n\n\nFocus on practical effects for the research enterprise and institutional support of impacted researchers.\n\n\n\n\nNote: This briefing was pre-recorded on September 5\, 2025. This briefing is a follow-up to the April 11 Briefing\, “The First 100 Days | Federal Grants: What Counsel Need to Know Today” and June 4 webinar\, “Executive Branch Updates: A New World of Federal Funding. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBriefing Recording\n\n\n\nThis briefing recording is complimentary to NACUA members and is available for NACUA members to access on demand through Online Learning Center. \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at nacua@nacua.org if you have any issues accessing the briefing. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/executive-branch-updates-nih-v-apha-and-federal-grant-terminations/ CATEGORIES:Briefing,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/09.05.25-Briefing-Header-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250827T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250827T150000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260203T205558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T170006Z UID:38811-1756299600-1756306800@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Preparing for Kick Off: Athletics Issues for 2025-2026 DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nThe 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 White House\, and the SCORE Act moving through the U.S. House of Representatives. Outside of the major headlines\, campus counsel continue to work on other legal issues keeping athletics departments running and compliant with various laws and regulations.   \n\n\n\nPlease join us for this 2-hour webinar where presenters will explore and provide a legal and regulatory landscape overview\, including:  \n\n\n\n\nFederal\, NCAA\, and litigation updates\, including enforcement expectations and issues related to the House settlement\, federal legislation and activity\, and ongoing antitrust litigation;\n\n\n\nNIL 2.0 institutional involvement\, the evolving marketplace\, and the College Sports Commission;\n\n\n\nNIL contract issues and best practices; and\n\n\n\nGender equity and Title IX compliance. \n\n\n\n\nWho Should Attend?   \n\n\n\nThis webinar will be of interest to college and university counsel who advise on athletics issues\, as well as campus administrators with responsibilities related to this area of the law.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\n\n\nTimeSession TopicWelcome and IntroductionsNCAA\, Litigation\, and Legislative UpdatesGender Equity and Title IX ComplianceNIL Contracts Issues and Best PracticesQ&AClosing Remarks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar Recording\n\n\n\nMembers who purchase the Live Webinar will receive access to the Post-Event Recording in the Online Learning Center at no additional charge. Non-members will not have post-event access to the recording or the materials and should plan to download materials during the live webinar. \n\n\n\nIf you are a member and couldn’t attend live\, the event recording will be available for purchase in our Online Learning Center. The recording may be replayed at any time\, but may not be copied\, posted\, or otherwise distributed within or outside of the institution\, organization\, or firm. The license entitles the purchaser to replay the recording at one campus or at one location of any organization or firm. You can purchase the Post-Event Recording here. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\nPurchase Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCooperating Associations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-2025 Webinars Sponsored by\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/preparing-for-kick-off-athletics-issues-for-2025-2026/ CATEGORIES:Virtual,Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/08.27.25-Webinar-Main-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250801T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250801T133000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260112T114558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T142156Z UID:37409-1754053200-1754055000@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Executive Branch Updates: A New Executive Order on "Saving College Sports" DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nPresident 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 other legal challenges. Notably\, the EO also directs the Secretary of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board to clarify the status of student-athletes.   \n\n\n\nPlease join us for a 30-minute audio-only briefing during which NACUA member-experts\, Jason Montgomery and Kasey Havekost\, will provide an in-depth overview of the EO and share their thoughts on how this EO impacts the current state of collegiate athlete compensation.   \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBriefing Recording\n\n\n\nThis briefing recording is complimentary to NACUA members and is available for NACUA members to access on demand through Online Learning Center. \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at nacua@nacua.org if you have any issues accessing the briefing. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/executive-branch-updates-a-new-executive-order-on-saving-college-sports/ CATEGORIES:Briefing,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/08.01.25-Briefing-Header-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250723T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250723T150000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260203T211832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T165957Z UID:38836-1753275600-1753282800@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Campus on Trial: Litigation Management for Busy College Counsel DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nLitigation 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 through the door.   \n\n\n\nPlease join NACUA for a 2-hour webinar\, in which our member experts Lauren Peach\, First Assistant Attorney General\, Colorado Department of Law\, David Corry\, General Counsel\, Liberty University\, and Leslie Bissinger Golden\, Assistant General Counsel\, Valencia College\, will provide a soup to nuts overview of all things litigation management.   \n\n\n\nThis webinar will equip you with the knowledge to navigate confidently when your client is sued and you are called upon to manage the litigation process from initiation to resolution – and the best practices for navigating the various procedural and substantive complexities between.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\n\n\nTimeSession Topic1:03 P.M.Introduction to Litigation Management1:15 P.M.Before You Get Sued1:30 P.M.When the Complaint is Filed1:45 P.M.Discovery and Motions Practice2:00 P.M.Negotiated Resolutions2:15 P.M.Trial and Appeal2:30 P.M.Tips and Tricks to Stay Organized and Manage Client Expectations2:45 P.M.Q&A2:59 PMClosing Remarks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar Recording\n\n\n\nMembers who purchase the Live Webinar will receive access to the Post-Event Recording in the Online Learning Center at no additional charge. Non-members will not have post-event access to the recording or the materials and should plan to download materials during the live webinar. \n\n\n\nIf you are a member and couldn’t attend live\, the event recording will be available for purchase in our Online Learning Center. The recording may be replayed at any time\, but may not be copied\, posted\, or otherwise distributed within or outside of the institution\, organization\, or firm. The license entitles the purchaser to replay the recording at one campus or at one location of any organization or firm. You can purchase the Post-Event Recording here. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\nPurchase Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-2025 Webinars Sponsored by\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/campus-on-trial-litigation-management-for-busy-college-counsel/ CATEGORIES:Virtual,Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/07.23.25-Webinar-Header-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250622T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250625T235959 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20251229T211812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T204528Z UID:36076-1750550400-1750895999@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:2025 Annual Conference DESCRIPTION: URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/2025-annual-conference/ LOCATION:Seattle Convention Center\, Seattle\, WA\, Seattle\, WA CATEGORIES:Annual Conference,In Person END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250621T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250622T235959 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260317T154049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260317T154121Z UID:41672-1750464000-1750636799@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:2025 Lawyers New to Higher Education Workshop DESCRIPTION: URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/2025-lawyers-new-to-higher-education-workshop/ LOCATION:Seattle Convention Center\, Seattle\, WA\, Seattle\, WA CATEGORIES:CLE Workshop,In Person END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250604T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250604T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260204T144205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T165950Z UID:38858-1749038400-1749045600@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Executive Branch Updates: A New World of Federal Fun(?)ding DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nThe academic year may be winding down\, but federal grants and contracts continue to pose major challenges for colleges and universities. The Trump Administration has put research funding under a spotlight\, greatly affecting the sponsored projects ecosystem within higher education.  As the situation evolves\, additional developments emerge from the administration\, and litigation winds through the courts\, campus counsel are called upon to address a high volume of questions about federal award termination\, administrative appeals\, litigation\, and certifications\, among others. Given the various stakeholders and fundamental institutional interests in play\, it is now imperative that counsel advise and assist institutional leaders in developing communication strategies around these issues.     \n\n\n\nPlease join us for this two-hour webinar in which three experienced practitioners will cover topics to aid counsel in advising clients and advocating for the interests of the institutional research enterprise\, including:  \n\n\n\n\nDistinctions between federal grants and contracts;\n\n\n\nOverview of grant and contract terminations\, including considerations for the awardee;\n\n\n\nConsiderations and strategies regarding administrative appeals\, litigation\, and certifications; and\n\n\n\nDiscussion of communication strategies to consider on your campus.\n\n\n\n\nWho Should Attend?  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will be of interest to college and university counsel who advise research clients\, and/or advise on federal awards\, as well as campus administrators with responsibilities related to this area of the law.    \n\n\n\nNote: This webinar is an in-depth expansion of content initially presented in a briefing titled “The First 100 Days | Federal Grants: What Counsel Need to Know Today” that was presented on April 11\, 2025.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\n\n\nTimeSession Topic12:00 P.M.Welcome and IntroductionsGrants v. ContractsFunding TerminationCommunication StrategiesConsiderations and Strategies for Administrative Appeals12:45 PMQ&A1:00 PMLitigation ConsiderationsOverview and Strategies for Certifications1:45 PMQ&A2:00 PMConclusion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar Recording\n\n\n\nMembers who purchase the Live Webinar will receive access to the Post-Event Recording in the Online Learning Center at no additional charge. Non-members will not have post-event access to the recording or the materials and should plan to download materials during the live webinar. \n\n\n\nIf you are a member and couldn’t attend live\, the event recording will be available for purchase in our Online Learning Center. The recording may be replayed at any time\, but may not be copied\, posted\, or otherwise distributed within or outside of the institution\, organization\, or firm. The license entitles the purchaser to replay the recording at one campus or at one location of any organization or firm. You can purchase the Post-Event Recording here. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\nPurchase Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCooperating Associations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-2025 Webinars Sponsored by\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/executive-branch-updates-a-new-world-of-federal-funding/ CATEGORIES:Virtual,Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/06.04.25-Webinar-Header-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T153000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260203T191239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T141937Z UID:38761-1748530800-1748532600@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Executive Branch Updates: DOJ’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nOn May 19\, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the U.S. Department of Justice was establishing “the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative\, which will utilize the False Claims Act to investigate and\, as appropriate\, pursue claims against any recipient of federal funds that knowingly violates federal civil rights laws.”  Notably\, the announcement “strongly encourages anyone with knowledge of discrimination by federal funding recipients to consider filing a qui tam action under the False Claims Act.”  This development further highlights the need for colleges and universities to seek the advice of counsel and take expeditious steps to comply with federal civil rights laws and assess areas of risk for False Claims Act litigation.  \n\n\n\nPlease join us for this 45-minute audio-only briefing in which NACUA experts Hailyn Chen\, Partner at Munger\, Tolles & Olson LLP\, and Michael Vernick\, Partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP will:   \n\n\n\n\nProvide an update on the objective\, scope\, and potential impacts of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative on colleges and universities; \n\n\n\n\n\nReview the basic tenets of the False Claims Act (FCA)\, its qui tam provision\, and potential defenses; and \n\n\n\n\n\nHighlight practical considerations and approaches for identifying and lawfully addressing areas of heightened FCA risk at your institution.  \n\n\n\n\nWho Should Attend?   \n\n\n\nThis briefing will be of interest to all in-house and outside college and university counsel.  \n\n\n\nNote: This program is part of NACUA’s “Executive Branch Updates” series\, which follows the Transition Updates: The First 100 Days series.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBriefing Recording\n\n\n\nThis briefing recording is complimentary to NACUA members and is available for NACUA members to access on demand through Online Learning Center. \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at nacua@nacua.org if you have any issues accessing the briefing. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/executive-branch-updates-dojs-civil-rights-fraud-initiative/ CATEGORIES:Briefing,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/05.29.25-Briefing-Header-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250522T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250522T131500 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260112T115816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T141811Z UID:37423-1747917000-1747919700@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Executive Branch Updates: What to Know About the Federal Grant Termination Trend DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\n\nFederal grant terminations used to be rare. Under an Office of Management and Budget rule implemented during President Donald J. Trump’s first term\, the second Trump Administration has prioritized cancellation of grants\, which it has determined “no longer effectuates… the program goals or agency priorities.” When grants are abruptly terminated by federal agencies\, postsecondary institutions can lose millions of dollars\, setting off a cascade of on campus impacts related to the loss and wind-down of particular research\, as well as the jobs and infrastructure supported by indirect cost funds. Today’s campus counsel must be prepared to advise their clients on the nuances of unique grant termination regulations for different federal agencies\, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH)\, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)\, National Science Foundation (NSF)\, and Department of Energy (DOE).   \n\n\n\nPlease join us for this 45-minute audio-only briefing in which NACUA experts Steve Sencer\, Counsel at Ropes & Gray LLP\, and Nicole Picard\, Associate General Counsel at Brown University will:  \n\n\n\n\nProvide an update on the latest federal grant termination trends;\n\n\n\nReview the latest considerations for institutional appeal rights and related processes; and\n\n\n\nOffer insight on the most important steps colleges and universities should take both before and immediately after they receive a notice of termination.\n\n\n\n\nWho Should Attend?  \n\n\n\nThis briefing will be of interest to college and university counsel who advise on federal research grants\, as well as colleagues in offices of sponsored research and grant managers. \n\n\n\nNote: This program is the first in NACUA’s “Executive Branch Updates” series\, which follows the Transition Updates: The First 100 Days series. This content of this audio-only briefing builds on the First 100 Days series briefing\, Federal Grants: What Counsel Need to Know Today (April 11\, 2025). Members seeking further\, in-depth\, CLE-eligible content are also encouraged to sign up for NACUA’s upcoming two-hour Executive Branch Updates webinar\, A New World of Federal Fun(?)ding (June 4\, 2025).    \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBriefing Recording\n\n\n\nThis briefing recording is complimentary to NACUA members and is available for NACUA members to access on demand through Online Learning Center. \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at nacua@nacua.org if you have any issues accessing the briefing. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/executive-branch-updates-what-to-know-about-the-federal-grant-termination-trend/ CATEGORIES:Briefing,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/05.22.25-Briefing-Header-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260204T152803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T165934Z UID:38871-1746187200-1746194400@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Title IX\, One Year Later DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nTitle IX remains a socio-political and legal football.   \n\n\n\nOn April 19\, 2024\, the U.S. Department of Education\, Office for Civil Rights (the Department)\, released its 2024 Title IX regulations\, which included significant departures from the 2020 Rule\, including expanding the definition of sex-based discrimination and harassment\, and broadening what triggers an institutional response obligation. It also introduced a level of institutional discretion absent in the 2020 Final Rule.   \n\n\n\nLitigation ensued\, challenging various aspects of the 2024 Final Rule\, in particular the inclusion of “gender identity” as a protected category within sex-based harassment. On January 9\, 2025\, the U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky issued its decision in Tennessee v. Cardona\, vacating the 2024 Final Rule by ruling that that the Department exceeded its authority in implementing the regulations and that the 2024 Final Rule and its corresponding regulations also violated the U.S. Constitution.   \n\n\n\nNine days later\, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States\, and thereafter the Department issued a new Dear Colleague Letter announcing its intention to enforce the 2020 Final Rule. In the weeks since\, the Department has made enforcement of a narrow definition of gender in both investigations and athletics participation a keystone priority\, most recently announcing an interagency task force toward that end.   \n\n\n\nPlease join NACUA for a 2-hour webinar\, in which our member experts will provide an in-depth exploration of the rapid transformation of Title IX over the last twelve months. This webinar will equip you with the knowledge to navigate confidently in the current era of Title IX enforcement.   \n\n\n\nNote: This webinar is a follow-up to a webinar that was presented on May 17\, 2024\, and a complimentary briefing that was presented on January 24\, 2025. It will be of interest to postsecondary counsel who handle sexual misconduct matters\, Title IX coordinators and investigators\, student affairs professionals\, human resources professionals\, and other campus administrators responsible for student and employee misconduct matters.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\n\n\nSchedule Coming Soon!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar Recording\n\n\n\nMembers who purchase the Live Webinar will receive access to the Post-Event Recording in the Online Learning Center at no additional charge. Non-members will not have post-event access to the recording or the materials and should plan to download materials during the live webinar. \n\n\n\nIf you are a member and couldn’t attend live\, the event recording will be available for purchase in our Online Learning Center. The recording may be replayed at any time\, but may not be copied\, posted\, or otherwise distributed within or outside of the institution\, organization\, or firm. The license entitles the purchaser to replay the recording at one campus or at one location of any organization or firm. You can purchase the Post-Event Recording here. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\nPurchase Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-2025 Webinars Sponsored by\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/title-ix-one-year-later/ CATEGORIES:Virtual,Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/05.02.25-Webinar-Header-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T133000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260112T115958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T141652Z UID:37425-1744376400-1744378200@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:The First 100 Days | Federal Grants: What Counsel Need to Know Today  DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\n\nThe Trump administration’s shift in policy priorities has led to wide-scale rescission of grant funds awarded by a range of federal agencies\, deeply impacting the research and educational activities of colleges and universities.  Even where funding has not been terminated\, wide-ranging demands and certifications\, presenting a high degree of risk to individuals and institutions\, are being required to maintain eligibility for funds.  Counsel are being called upon to advise on institutions’ responses and compliance activities related to the rapidly changing landscape for grant funding\, often under extraordinary circumstances testing the already-stretched bandwidth of the legal function. As this situation continues to unfold\, it is crucial for counsel to have a strong grounding in the basics of federal grant awards\, particularly the options available for responding to a termination of funds\, as well as considerations and strategies for communications and certifications related to ongoing grant awards.     \n\n\n\nPlease join us for a 30-minute audio-only briefing during which NACUA member-experts\, William Ferreira and Michelle Gluck\, will provide an overview of the recent activity related to federal grant funding and the top considerations for effectively representing and advising your institution on this critical issue.  \n\n\n\nThis briefing is a part of NACUA’s Transition Updates: The First 100 Days series.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBriefing Recording\n\n\n\nThis briefing recording is complimentary to NACUA members and is available for NACUA members to access on demand through NACUA’s Online Learning Center. \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at nacua@nacua.org if you have any issues accessing the briefing. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/the-first-100-days-federal-grants-what-counsel-need-to-know-today/ CATEGORIES:Briefing,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/No-Text-100-Days-Transition-Header-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T124500 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260112T132410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T174524Z UID:37453-1742990400-1742993100@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Washington Update DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nNACUA’s Spring Discrimination Law Workshop in San Antonio\, TX included a session on the latest developments in Washington relative to higher education. Please enjoy this complimentary briefing that discusses the current landscape as of the time of the recording on March 26\, 2025. The session provided updates on Washington executive\, legislative\, and regulatory activity from experts in Washington.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBriefing Recording\n\n\n\nThis briefing recording is complimentary to NACUA members and is available for NACUA members to access on demand through NACUA’s Online Learning Center.  \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at nacua@nacua.org if you have any issues accessing the briefing. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/washington-update/ CATEGORIES:Briefing,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Header-Image-Department-of-Education-Full-Size.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250328T235959 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20251229T213445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T165920Z UID:36085-1742947200-1743206399@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Spring 2025 CLE Workshop: Discrimination Law DESCRIPTION:Virtual\, Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nUt ut euismod ante. Sed feugiat\, mi at maximus aliquam\, justo nisi semper velit\, tristique sodales eros odio dignissim risus. Duis feugiat turpis quis est rhoncus condimentum. Pellentesque a efficitur nulla. Vestibulum convallis elit mauris\, id sodales enim tincidunt eu. Cras eget porta nunc. Suspendisse lacinia consectetur ultrices. Phasellus consequat metus id urna viverra\, eget consectetur urna sagittis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\n\n\nTimeSession Topic12:00 – 12:10Welcome and Introductions13:00 – 13:10Grants v. Contracts14:00 – 14:10Funding Termination\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar Recording\n\n\n\nMembers who purchase the Live Webinar will receive access to the Post-Event Recording in the Online Learning Center at no additional charge. Non-members will not have post-event access to the recording or the materials and should plan to download materials during the live webinar. \n\n\n\nIf you are a member and couldn’t attend live\, the event recording will be available for purchase in our Online Learning Center. The recording may be replayed at any time\, but may not be copied\, posted\, or otherwise distributed within or outside of the institution\, organization\, or firm. The license entitles the purchaser to replay the recording at one campus or at one location of any organization or firm. You can purchase the Post-Event Recording here. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\nPurchase Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCooperating Associations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-2025 Webinars Sponsored by\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/spring-2025-cle-workshop-discrimination-law/ LOCATION:The Westin Denver Downtown\, Denver\, CO\, Denver\, CO CATEGORIES:CLE Workshop,In Person END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T124500 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260112T120510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T141512Z UID:37427-1742558400-1742561100@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Fireside Chat: Farewell to the Department of Education? DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\n\nOn March 3\, newly confirmed U.S. Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon issued her statement regarding the Department’s “Final Mission.” That same day the Task Force on Antisemitism announced its initial investigations regarding alleged violations of Title VI and shortly thereafter announced that it was withholding $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University. On March 10\, the Task Force on Antisemitism announced an additional 60 investigations into postsecondary institutions across the United States; March 14 saw the announcement of another 45 investigations\, pertaining to enforcement of the February 14 Dear Colleague Letter.  \n\n\n\nThe continued viability of the Department itself may also be in question. On March 6\, a draft executive order leaked to the public\, which sets forth steps the Trump Administration anticipates taking to “facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities\,” just before thousands of Department staff were laid off via a mass reduction in force.  \n\n\n\nTo parse the nuance of these myriad actions and their impacts on the practice of higher education law\, please join NACUA for a 45-minute fireside chat featuring NACUA Board Chair Traevena Byrd\, Vice President\, General Counsel & Secretary to the Board at American University\, in conversation with Lisa Brown\, Partner and Higher Education Practice Group Head at WilmerHale and former U.S. Department of Education General Counsel. This fireside chat is being held in collaboration with the National Association of Independent Colleges & Universities (NAICU)\, and the event will only be open to members of NACUA and NAICU.  \n\n\n\nThis fireside chat is a part of NACUA’s Transition Updates: The First 100 Days series.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBriefing Recording\n\n\n\nThis  recording is complimentary to NACUA members and is available for NACUA members to access on demand through NACUA’s Online Learning Center. \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at nacua@nacua.org if you have any issues accessing the briefing. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCooperating Associations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/fireside-chat-farewell-to-the-department-of-education/ CATEGORIES:Briefing,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/No-Text-100-Days-Transition-Header-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250314T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260204T160936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T165910Z UID:38883-1741953600-1741960800@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:2025 Cybersecurity Law Update DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nRapid advancements in technology provide tremendous opportunities but also carry significant risks to the mission-critical operations of colleges and universities. The vast amount of student\, patient\, and research data make higher education institutions increasingly attractive targets for criminals and bad actors\, who are constantly improving their capabilities to carry out acts of intrusion\, theft\, and disruption. The ensuing security and data breaches carry significant legal and reputational risk for institutions. However\, the preventive measures required to stay one step ahead of the bad actors and to comply with the expanding patchwork of data security and privacy laws and regulations carry notable costs and nuanced considerations of their own. In light of these substantial risks and evolving threat landscape\, counsel must remain informed on the current state of cybersecurity law.  \n\n\n\nPlease join us for this two-hour webinar featuring expert presenters with deep knowledge and practical experience in the cybersecurity issues impacting higher education. The webinar will include:  \n\n\n\n\nOverview of the current cyber threat landscape\, including high-profile incidents and enforcement; \n\n\n\nOverview of the cybersecurity compliance framework\, including new and emerging laws and regulations;  \n\n\n\nDiscussion of privilege considerations in cyber threat responses\, investigations\, and post-incident analysis; and \n\n\n\nConsideration of several practical cybersecurity challenges for higher education institutions including the top stressors and challenges for IT personnel and resources\, as well as emerging trends and considerations in procurement\, contracting\, and cyber insurance. \n\n\n\n\nWho Should Attend?  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will be of interest to college and university counsel who advise on cybersecurity\, data security\, and/or compliance issues\, as well as campus administrators with responsibilities in those areas such as compliance officers\, procurement officers\, risk managers\, and IT and technology leaders.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\n\n\nTimeSession Topic12:00 P.M.Welcome and IntroductionsOverview of Cyber Threat Landscape  Compliance Framework Q&APractical Challenges and Approaches for Higher Education Q&A2:00 P.M.Conclusion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar Recording\n\n\n\nMembers who purchase the Live Webinar will receive access to the Post-Event Recording in the Online Learning Center at no additional charge. Non-members will not have post-event access to the recording or the materials and should plan to download materials during the live webinar. \n\n\n\nIf you are a member and couldn’t attend live\, the event recording will be available for purchase in our Online Learning Center. The recording may be replayed at any time\, but may not be copied\, posted\, or otherwise distributed within or outside of the institution\, organization\, or firm. The license entitles the purchaser to replay the recording at one campus or at one location of any organization or firm. You can purchase the Post-Event Recording here. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\nPurchase Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-2025 Webinars Sponsored by\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/2025-cybersecurity-law-update/ CATEGORIES:Virtual,Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/03.14.25-Webinar-Header-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250307T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250307T123000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260112T130248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T165906Z UID:37437-1741348800-1741350600@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:The First 100 Days: A Discussion on DEI with Dear Colleagues DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\n\nSince taking office in January\, the Trump administration has issued Executive Order 14151: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing\, Executive Order 14173: Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity\, and the February 14th Dear Colleague Letter directing institutions to end programs related to diversity\, equity\, and inclusion. In response\, several lawsuits have been filed challenging the Executive Orders and Dear Colleague Letter. On February 21\, 2025\, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking several provisions of the Executive Orders. With additional litigation and guidance expected\, campus counsel must keep abreast of these developments to understand and deliver the best possible advice and counsel to your campus.   \n\n\n\nPlease join us for a 30-minute audio-only briefing during which NACUA presenters\, Dwight J. Draughon\, Jr. and Lauren Schoenthaler\, will provide an overview of the Executive Orders and the February 14 DCL relating to DEI\, as well as legal challenges to those initiatives. The program will also cover practical discussions to have with your Presidents and Boards.     \n\n\n\nThis briefing is part of NACUA’s Transition Updates: The First 100 Days Series.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBriefing Recording\n\n\n\nThis briefing recording is complimentary to NACUA members and is available for NACUA members to access on demand through NACUA’s Online Learning Center. \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at nacua@nacua.org if you have any issues accessing the briefing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/the-first-100-days-a-discussion-on-dei-with-dear-colleagues/ CATEGORIES:Briefing,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/No-Text-100-Days-Transition-Header-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250306T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250306T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260204T162852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T165902Z UID:38891-1741262400-1741269600@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Sharpening Your Skills: Best Practices for Conducting Internal Investigations DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nCompliance with laws and regulations\, coordination with various stakeholders\, and organization to ensure processes are followed are all needed to conduct just one internal investigation. However\, a single incident at a postsecondary institution can trigger multiple investigations by different offices on campus and the discovery of unknown information during those investigations can lead to even more investigations. Additionally\, public relations pressure can further complicate an already overwhelming\, multifaceted investigative process. It is crucial that campus counsel and others involved in internal investigations have a solid grasp on when an investigation should be opened\, the different stages of investigative processes\, and how to maintain solid oversight of simultaneous internal investigations.   \n\n\n\nPlease join us for this 2-hour webinar where presenters will explore:  \n\n\n\n\nThe pre-investigations stage\, such as fact gathering\, jurisdictional issues\, how to initiate the process\, and other related issues; \n\n\n\nHow to manage oversight of multiple investigations\, including ordering of investigations and determining how different stakeholders should coordinate and communicate with one another; \n\n\n\nPrivilege issues and other privacy laws implicated by investigations; and  \n\n\n\nHypotheticals illustrating how to think through these concepts.  \n\n\n\n\nWho should attend?  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will be of interest to college and university counsel who conduct internal investigations\, as well as campus administrators with responsibilities related to internal investigations. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\n\n\nTimeSession Topic12:00 P.M.Welcome and IntroductionsPre-Investigation Planning and ConsiderationsHypotheticals Outlining Investigative ProcessesQ&AHypotheticals Outlining Investigative Processes Electronically Stored Information\, Statutes\, and Other Issues to Keep in Mind Q&A2:00 P.M.Conclusion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar Recording\n\n\n\nMembers who purchase the Live Webinar will receive access to the Post-Event Recording in the Online Learning Center at no additional charge. Non-members will not have post-event access to the recording or the materials and should plan to download materials during the live webinar. \n\n\n\nIf you are a member and couldn’t attend live\, the event recording will be available for purchase in our Online Learning Center. The recording may be replayed at any time\, but may not be copied\, posted\, or otherwise distributed within or outside of the institution\, organization\, or firm. The license entitles the purchaser to replay the recording at one campus or at one location of any organization or firm. You can purchase the Post-Event Recording here. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\nPurchase Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-2025 Webinars Sponsored by\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/sharpening-your-skills-best-practices-for-conducting-internal-investigations-2/ CATEGORIES:Virtual,Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/03.06.25-Webinar-Header-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250306T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250306T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260112T131637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T142353Z UID:37451-1741262400-1741269600@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Sharpening Your Skills: Best Practices for Conducting Internal Investigations DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\n\nCompliance with laws and regulations\, coordination with various stakeholders\, and organization to ensure processes are followed are all needed to conduct just one internal investigation. However\, a single incident at a postsecondary institution can trigger multiple investigations by different offices on campus and the discovery of unknown information during those investigations can lead to even more investigations. Additionally\, public relations pressure can further complicate an already overwhelming\, multifaceted investigative process. It is crucial that campus counsel and others involved in internal investigations have a solid grasp on when an investigation should be opened\, the different stages of investigative processes\, and how to maintain solid oversight of simultaneous internal investigations.   \n\n\n\nPlease join us for this 2-hour webinar where presenters will explore:  \n\n\n\n\nThe pre-investigations stage\, such as fact gathering\, jurisdictional issues\, how to initiate the process\, and other related issues; \n\n\n\n\n\nHow to manage oversight of multiple investigations\, including ordering of investigations and determining how different stakeholders should coordinate and communicate with one another; \n\n\n\n\n\nPrivilege issues and other privacy laws implicated by investigations; and  \n\n\n\n\n\nHypotheticals illustrating how to think through these concepts.  \n\n\n\n\nWho should attend?  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will be of interest to college and university counsel who conduct internal investigations\, as well as campus administrators with responsibilities related to internal investigations.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar Recording\n\n\n\nMembers who purchase the Live Webinar will receive access to the Post-Event Recording in the Online Learning Center at no additional charge. Non-members will not have post-event access to the recording or the materials and should plan to download materials during the live webinar. \n\n\n\nIf you are a member and couldn’t attend live\, the event recording will be available for purchase in our Online Learning Center. The recording may be replayed at any time\, but may not be copied\, posted\, or otherwise distributed within or outside of the institution\, organization\, or firm. The license entitles the purchaser to replay the recording at one campus or at one location of any organization or firm. You can purchase the Post-Event Recording here. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\nPurchase Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/sharpening-your-skills-best-practices-for-conducting-internal-investigations/ CATEGORIES:Virtual,Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1741121198.0554817_03.06.25_Webinar_-_Header_Image__1_.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250221T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250221T123000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260112T130437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T163731Z UID:37442-1740139200-1740141000@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:The First 100 Days: Immigration Law DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nA keystone of President Trump’s campaign was the promise to intensify immigration enforcement. The first weeks of his second administration included the issuance and implementation of executive orders to begin this work. Additionally\, the acting U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary issued a directive rescinding longstanding policy on refraining from immigration enforcement actions at “sensitive locations” or “protected areas\,” including educational institutions. At the same time\, the Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice issued a memo directing the Department to restrict funding to jurisdictions and organizations that support or provide services to undocumented immigrants\, among other mandates. Campus counsel must advise and communicate with various constituents across campus on these rapidly evolving developments.  \n\n\n\nPlease join us for a 30-minute audio-only briefing during which NACUA member-experts\, Leigh Cole and Michael Pfahl\, will provide an overview of where the law stands\, insights that can be gleaned from comparative realignment of immigration activities across previous administrations\, and advice on how to counsel your clients now.   \n\n\n\nThis briefing is part of NACUA’s Transition Updates: The First 100 Days Series.   \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBriefing Recording\n\n\n\nThis briefing recording is complimentary to NACUA members and is available for NACUA members to access on demand through NACUA’s Online Learning Center. \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at nacua@nacua.org if you have any issues accessing the briefing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/the-first-100-days-immigration-law/ CATEGORIES:Briefing,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/No-Text-100-Days-Transition-Header-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250210T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260112T131509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260306T152736Z UID:37449-1739188800-1739196000@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Can You Hear Me Now? Hot Topics in the World of Faculty Free Speech and Academic Freedom DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nFaculty members occupy an important\, albeit unique\, position on college and university campuses. As we enter the new year\, campuses will face challenges related to academic freedom and faculty discourse in response to the 2024 presidential election and the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza. They will also be tasked with managing backlash to these faculty activities by the greater campus community\, media outlets\, and donors. Counsel must balance these conflicting interests while maintaining a legally compliant campus environment.   \n\n\n\nPlease join us for this two-hour webinar in which two experienced NACUA member-presenters will cover topics\, including:  \n\n\n\n\nAn overview and legal update of academic freedom on campus;\n\n\n\nUpdates on relevant faculty-related issues\, including free speech and protest activities;\n\n\n\nFaculty social media use;\n\n\n\nImpact on external stakeholders;\n\n\n\nRelevant policies and laws; and\n\n\n\nPractical suggestions for managing these issues on campus.\n\n\n\n\nWho Should Attend? \n\n\n\nThis webinar will interest in-house and outside college and university counsel who advise on matters related to faculty and academic freedom\, as well as campus administrators and other professionals on campus who maintain responsibilities in these areas. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\n\n\nTimeSession Topic12:00 – 12:10Welcome and IntroductionsLegal OverviewRelevant Policies and LawsHot Topics in the Faculty World  Social Media UseImpact on External StakeholdersPractical Suggestions for Managing These Issues on Campus Q&A2:00 P.M.Conclusion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar Recording\n\n\n\nMembers who purchase the Live Webinar will receive access to the Post-Event Recording in the Online Learning Center at no additional charge. Non-members will not have post-event access to the recording or the materials and should plan to download materials during the live webinar. \n\n\n\nIf you are a member and couldn’t attend live\, the event recording will be available for purchase in our Online Learning Center. The recording may be replayed at any time\, but may not be copied\, posted\, or otherwise distributed within or outside of the institution\, organization\, or firm. The license entitles the purchaser to replay the recording at one campus or at one location of any organization or firm. You can purchase the Post-Event Recording here. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\nPurchase Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCooperating Associations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2024-2025 Webinars Sponsored by\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/can-you-hear-me-now-hot-topics-in-the-world-of-faculty-free-speech-and-academic-freedom/ CATEGORIES:Virtual,Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/01.15.24-Webinar-Header-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250207T123000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260112T120849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T163651Z UID:37431-1738929600-1738931400@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:The First 100 Days: What’s Happened So Far DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nThe second Trump administration has quickly issued a series of sweeping executive orders impacting students\, faculty\, and staff\, college and university operations\, and the mission of higher education institutions.  Several orders have attracted legal challenges\, while administrative agencies have taken initial steps to implement those that have not been blocked by the courts.  All the while\, counsel have worked overtime to advise and communicate with college and university clients and to set the tone for calm and deliberate action to advance the interests of their institutions.  As the third week of the new administration draws to a close\, it is necessary to pause and reflect on where we find ourselves as a higher education community and to take stock of the landscape that is shifting beneath our feet.    \n\n\n\nPlease join us for a 30-minute audio-only briefing during which NACUA member-experts\, Danielle Conley and Kate Hudson\, will provide an overview of the most impactful executive orders and what they mean for higher education.   \n\n\n\nThis briefing is a part of NACUA’s Transition Updates: The First 100 Days series.   \n\n\n\nUt ut euismod ante. Sed feugiat\, mi at maximus aliquam\, justo nisi semper velit\, tristique sodales eros odio dignissim risus. Duis feugiat turpis quis est rhoncus condimentum. Pellentesque a efficitur nulla. Vestibulum convallis elit mauris\, id sodales enim tincidunt eu. Cras eget porta nunc. Suspendisse lacinia consectetur ultrices. Phasellus consequat metus id urna viverra\, eget consectetur urna sagittis. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBriefing Recording\n\n\n\nThis briefing recording is complimentary to NACUA members and is available for NACUA members to access on demand through NACUA’s Online Learning Center. \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at nacua@nacua.org if you have any issues accessing the briefing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/the-first-100-days-whats-happened-so-far/ CATEGORIES:Briefing,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/No-Text-100-Days-Transition-Header-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250129T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250131T170000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20250129T175600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260209T192328Z UID:38913-1738137600-1738342800@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Winter 2025 Virtual CLE Workshop Pre-Workshop: What *IS* Artificial Intelligence and Why Should I Care? DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nThose who attended the Winter 2025 Workshop and purchased this webinar as part of their original registration have access to this recording already and do not need to repurchase it here. \n\n\n\nMembers who did not attend the pre-workshop may purchase it here for $265. \n\n\n\nJanuary 29\, 2025\, from 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. ET \n\n\n\nCounsel and their college and university clients are understandably anxious about increased attention to Artificial Intelligence (AI) on campus. And while there is no “app for that\,” there is an innovative pre-Workshop to NACUA’s 2025 Virtual Winter Workshop on AI! This novel offering is designed to establish a shared vocabulary around AI in higher education to facilitate more effective conversations with cross-campus partners\, equip counsel with a basic understanding of generative AI and where it may show up across campus silos\, and help demystify the sources of emergent regulation that will intersect with more evergreen college and university law jurisprudence. \n\n\n\nWho Should Attend? \n\n\n\nThis two-hour program is a fundamentals level CLE\, intended to serve as primer for college and university attorneys. The pre-Workshop is available to campus counsel and their clients working on establishing legally compliant policies and practices surrounding AI use on campus. The pre-Workshop content will be accessible as both a standalone program\, and an add-on to NACUA’s 2025 Virtual Winter Workshop: AI and Higher Education Law. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar Recording\n\n\n\nMembers who purchase the Live Webinar will receive access to the Post-Event Recording in the Online Learning Center at no additional charge. Non-members will not have post-event access to the recording or the materials and should plan to download materials during the live webinar. \n\n\n\nIf you are a member and couldn’t attend live\, the event recording will be available for purchase in our Online Learning Center. The recording may be replayed at any time\, but may not be copied\, posted\, or otherwise distributed within or outside of the institution\, organization\, or firm. The license entitles the purchaser to replay the recording at one campus or at one location of any organization or firm. You can purchase the Post-Event Recording here. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\nPurchase Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/winter-2025-virtual-cle-workshop-pre-workshop-what-is-artificial-intelligence-and-why-should-i-care/ CATEGORIES:CLE Workshop,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1739483772.5730426_Winter_2025_CLE_-_CVENT_Attendee_Hub_Page_Header.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250129T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250131T235959 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20251229T213838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T205445Z UID:36089-1738108800-1738367999@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Winter 2025 Virtual CLE Workshop: AI and Higher Education Law DESCRIPTION: URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/winter-2025-virtual-cle-workshop-ai-and-higher-education-law/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:CLE Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250124T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250124T123000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260112T131331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T192735Z UID:37447-1737720000-1737721800@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:What Now? Title IX in the Aftermath of Tennessee v. Cardona DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nThe policy pendulum of Title IX continues to swing\, and this time it has swung back to 2020. On January 9\, 2025\, the U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky issued its decision in Tennessee v. Cardona\, granting summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff states of Kentucky\, Virginia\, Indiana\, Tennessee\, and West Virginia\, and vacating the 2024 Final Rule. The Court found that that U.S. Department of Education exceeded its authority in implementing the regulations and that the Final Rule and its corresponding regulations also violate the U.S. Constitution. Although the primary thrust of the challenge was to the inclusion of “gender identity” as a protected category within sex-based harassment\, the decision impacts additional changes brought about by the Final Rule including those pertaining to handling grievances\, training\, recordkeeping\, processing complaints\, as well as the extended protections for pregnancy and related conditions.   \n\n\n\nPlease join us for a 30-minute briefing during which NACUA member-experts will provide an overview of Tennessee v. Cardona\, its implications for Title IX in postsecondary education\, and practical pointers for steps you can take now. The briefing will be of interest to counsel and their campus colleagues who work in Title IX and other antidiscrimination offices.   \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBriefing Recording\n\n\n\nThis briefing recording is complimentary to NACUA members and is available for NACUA members to access on demand through NACUA’s Online Learning Center. \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at nacua@nacua.org if you have any issues accessing the briefing. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/what-now-title-ix-in-the-aftermath-of-tennessee-v-cardona/ CATEGORIES:Briefing,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/01.24.25-Briefing-Header-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250117T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250117T133000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260112T130613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T192844Z UID:37445-1737118800-1737120600@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:Stop Campus Hazing Act: What You Need to Know to Comply DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nPresident Joseph R. Biden\, Jr. signed the Stop Campus Hazing Act (the “Act”) into law on December 23\, 2024\, to address concerns about injuries and deaths on college campuses related to hazing activities. The Act\, which amends the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act\, imposes several requirements on colleges and universities\, many of which already became\, or will soon become effective. Notably\, the Act requires institutions to compile and disclose an additional class of broadly-defined hazing statistics in a distinct new report\, to disclose additional information in Annual Security Reports\, and to publish information related to anti-hazing policies and prevention programs.  \n\n\n\nPlease join us for a 30-minute audio-only briefing during which NACUA member-experts\, Guilherme Costa and Janet Judge\, will provide an overview of the Act and offer practical insights for counsel and compliance colleagues who focus on areas most at risk for potential hazing activity on campus.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBriefing Recording\n\n\n\nThis briefing recording is complimentary to NACUA members and is available for NACUA members to access on demand through Online Learning Center. \n\n\n\nPlease contact us at nacua@nacua.org if you have any issues accessing the briefing. \n\n\n\n\nAccess Recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNACUA Annual Conference\n\n\n\nJoin us in the Music City June 29 – July 2 to connect\, learn\, and lead alongside higher education attorneys shaping policy\, practice\, and impact nationwide together. \n\n\n\n\nRegister URL:https://dev.nacua.org/event/stop-campus-hazing-act-what-you-need-to-know-to-comply/ CATEGORIES:Briefing,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dev.nacua.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/01.17.25-Briefing-Header-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241122T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241122T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T190445 CREATED:20260306T154402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260306T154946Z UID:40825-1732276800-1732284000@dev.nacua.org SUMMARY:The Law of Gender Identity on Campus DESCRIPTION:Webinar\n\nTime to Update the Playbook: The Expanded Lineup of Federal Higher Education Regulators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\n\nThe law pertaining to antidiscrimination protections for postsecondary students\, faculty\, and staff who identify as transgender\, or whose gender identity is nonbinary\, is complex. It is a combination of federal\, state\, and local laws\, interpreted via inconsistent and occasionally conflicting jurisprudence across different jurisdictions\, which is further complicated by regulatory and sub-regulatory guidance. Beyond the complicated legal framework\, higher education counsel are also often called upon to advise their clients on how to navigate the politics attendant to the law(s) of gender identity on campus.     \n\n\n\nPlease join us for this two-hour webinar in which a trio of NACUA member-experts will examine the legal authority and practical considerations impacting gender identity in the postsecondary space\, including:  \n\n\n\n\nTitle IX\, including related to healthcare\, athletics\, facilities use\, and minors on campus;\n\n\n\nTitle VII\, including legal developments post-Bostock v. Clayton Cty. (2020); \n\n\n\nReligious accommodations & academic freedom\, including name and pronouns usage; and  \n\n\n\nAn overview of emerging State law trends. \n\n\n\n\nWho Should Attend?   \n\n\n\nThis webinar will interest in-house and outside college and university counsel who advise on matters related to antidiscrimination law and related policies\, as well as campus administrators and other professionals on campus who maintain responsibilities in these areas. \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hailyn Chen\n Co-Managing Partner \n Munger\, Tolles & Olson \n \n \n \n \nHailyn Chen is a Munger\, Tolles & Olson litigation partner and Co-Managing Partner of the firm.   \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is known as a leader inside and outside the courtroom\, with a practice focused on complex business litigation\, white collar criminal defense\, and government and internal investigations. She has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading lawyers\, in particular for matters involving higher education institutions or allegations of sexual misconduct in a range of litigation matters and investigations. Ms. Chen has paved the way for other women attorneys of color to excel in their practices and drive initiatives for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.    \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2024 Leaders of Influence: Litigators and Trial Attorneys List. In 2023\, Ms. Chen was recognized by the Daily Journal in its Top 100 Lawyers List for her investigations practice\, including leading an internal investigation on behalf of UC Berkeley into allegations of abuse\, bullying and discriminatory conduct by longtime head coach of UC Berkeley Women’s Swimming\, Teri McKeever. She also served as lead counsel in an independent internal investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse at the Thacher School\, an elite boarding school in Ojai\, California. In 2021\, Ms. Chen was listed among California’s “Top Women Lawyers” by the Daily Journal for the fourth consecutive year and\, in 2020\, she was named “Managing Partner of the Year” by Corporate Counsel.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen is an immediate past member of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California\, having served for seven years on the Board as an appointee of the California Supreme Court. She is a member of the State Bar Board’s Ad Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability Reforms and has testified on those topics at Joint Oversight Hearings of the Senate Judiciary and Assembly Judiciary Committees. She also serves on the UCLA School of Law Advisory Board\, which advises the Dean of the UCLA Law School on significant issues. Ms. Chen is a member of the board of directors of the Attorney Liability Assurance Society (ALAS)\, the nation’s largest lawyer-owned mutual\, insuring 222 premier law firms with over 76\,000 lawyers around the world.  \n\n\n\nShe has been quoted in numerous publications including The American Lawyer\, the Daily Journal\, and in 2022 co-authored an article published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, “Sexual Misconduct Arising Out of Student Health\, Athletic Medicine\, and Academic Medical Centers\,” the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of best practices in responding to sexual misconduct in the healthcare context.  \n\n\n\nMs. Chen earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University\, where she was one of the first female coxswains to lead the Yale varsity men’s crew and was awarded the MVP award in 1996.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonya Sanchez\n \n \n \n \n \nSonya Sanchez is Managing Counsel for Education Affairs and Governance at the University of California System. She joined the Office of the General Counsel as Senior Counsel for the Litigation group in November 2015\, overseeing a wide variety of litigated matters\, including personal injury\, First Amendment\, DACA and sexual misconduct litigation\, including Title IX litigation. In addition to managing sexual misconduct litigation\, she advises on complex policy\, regulatory and crisis management issues arising in the sexual misconduct arena.  \n\n\n\nShe received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College\, a M. Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education\, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.  \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\n\n\nTimeSession Topic12:00 P.M. ETWelcome and IntroductionsTitle IX2:00 P.M. ETTitle VII Religious Accommodations & Academic FreedomState TrendsPractical Tips and ConsiderationsQ&AConclusion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCLE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQs \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebinar Recording\n\n\n\nMembers who purchase the Live Webinar will receive access to the Post-Event Recording in the Online Learning Center at no additional charge. Non-members will not have post-event access to the recording or the materials and should plan to download materials during the live webinar. \n\n\n\nIf you are a member and couldn’t attend live\, the event recording will be available for purchase in our Online Learning Center. The recording may be replayed at any time\, but may not be copied\, posted\, or otherwise distributed within or outside of the institution\, organization\, or firm. The license entitles the purchaser to replay the recording at one campus or at one location of any organization or firm. 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