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19, 2025</div><div id='itemsection'>Legal Update</div></div><div id='itemContent'><p>On February 14, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) which, for the first time, previewed how the Education Department under the second Trump administration will scrutinize race-based preferences and DEI initiatives in K-12 and higher education.</p> <p>As many college administrators have been expecting, the DCL reflects the administration’s view that any preferential treatment based on race is discriminatory. This includes some facially neutral efforts to increase on-campus racial diversity and some DEI-specific training and programming.</p> <p>The DCL provides the following key insights:</p> <ol> <li>The administration will seek to expand the prohibition on race-based preferences in admissions by broadly interpreting the Supreme Court’s decision in <em>Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard</em> to apply to other areas of college and university operations including financial aid, hiring, training, and programming.</li> <li>The administration views race-based segregation, including in dormitories, graduation ceremonies, and facilities as drawing unlawful race-based designations, even if it is voluntary.</li> <li>The administration specifically listed programming that includes explicit race-consciousness, including “under the banner of DEI,” as an example of race-based discrimination, which it referred to as “toxic[]” and “indoctrinat[ion.]”</li> <li>The DCL states that “DEI programs” that “teach students that certain racial groups bear unique moral burdens that others do not” are discriminatory and “stigmatize students who belong to particular racial groups.” It is unclear how the administration plan to regulate curriculum that it views as discriminatory in this way, and, if so, whether that regulation will apply to higher education.</li> </ol> <p>The DCL closes by directing educational institutions to: (1) ensure that their policies and actions comply with existing civil rights law; (2) cease all efforts to circumvent prohibitions on the use of race by relying on proxies or other indirect means to accomplish such ends; and (3) cease all reliance on third-party contractors, clearinghouses, or aggregators that are being used by institutions in an effort to circumvent prohibited uses of race.</p> <p>The DCL also promises that more guidance is forthcoming in a matter of weeks. 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