Higher Education

Proposed Treasury and IRS rule targets race-based practices in admissions, scholarships, athletics, and other school programs Private educational institutions face another significant development in the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to eliminate race-based [...]

DoD Notice Names 30 Academic Institutions That Must Report By August 31 Thirty academic research institutions recently received formal notifications from the Department of Defense (DoD), requesting significant documentation regarding their academic, [...]

Proposal Reflects Key Elements of OMB’s Delayed Uniform Guidance Overhaul Colleges and universities, state education departments, local school districts, and other Department of Education grantees should review proposed changes to the Education [...]

Feldesman Partners Mindy B. Pava and Ted Waters will present at the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) 68th Annual Meeting, taking place August 1-4, 2026, in New York City. During [...]

Feldesman Partners Mindy B. Pava and Edward T. Waters will present four sessions at the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) Financial Research Administration (FRA) Conference and Pre-Award Research Administration (PRA) [...]

Feldesman Partner Mindy Pava will deliver key legal insights with the scientific research community during two sessions at the upcoming 2025 Society of Research Administrations International (SRAI) Annual Meeting.  Ms. Pava will [...]

“Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking” Gives Agency Heads More Control Over Federal Grant Review and Provides for Uniform Guidance Revisions A new Executive Order (EO) issued Thursday, August 7 continues—and expands upon—the [...]

On August 11, 2025, Feldesman Partners Mindy B. Pava and Ted Waters will present on the rapidly changing federal grants and enforcement landscape at the National Council of University Research Administrators’ (NCURA) [...]

DOJ Provides Guidance to Federal Funding Recipients on Unlawful Discrimination In an effort to eliminate the ambiguity over what constitutes “illegal DEI” or “unlawful discrimination,” the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued [...]