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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 [...]

On May 25, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ordered the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [...]

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) [...]

Late last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted without any fanfare the promised revision to the HHS Grants Policy Statement (GPS), effective October 1, 2025.  This updated [...]

In recent months, the Administration has been adding a new condition to Federal awards that ties assurances that grantees comply with long-standing Federal antidiscrimination laws to a requirement that grantees refrain from [...]

The United States Office of Research Integrity (ORI) oversees and directs Public Health Service (PHS) research integrity activities on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The PHS [...]