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We would like to update you on new initiatives unveiled by the federal administration this week, as well as implementation of existing directives that impact the federal workforce, which have potential significant implications for CU’s campuses and communities.

Update on recent legal actions relevant to CU’s campuses and communities, including the U.S. District Court of Maryland issued a preliminary injunction on February 21 that blocks the administration from implementing the termination, certification, and enforcement provisions contained in two executive orders, Ending Radical Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.

As the week concludes, we would like to provide you with recent updates on federal issues of importance to CU’s campuses and communities.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a new four-page Dear Colleague letter over the weekend indicating it will apply a broad interpretation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA).

Several updates since the last communication on February 10 to share.

Last night a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted the AAMC’s motion for a nationwide temporary restraining order, preventing a Feb. 7 notice from the NIH from going into effect.

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) today joined with the Association of American Universities (AAU) and the American Council on Education (ACE) as plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the NIH’s action limiting Facilities and Administrative (F&A) reimbursements (indirect cost rate) to a 15% rate for the agency’s research grants.

Today, twenty-two states, including Colorado, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the federal government regarding unlawful cuts to the National Institutes of Health facilities & administrative (F&A) costs rate.

On the evening of Friday, Feb. 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would reduce the Facilities & Administrative (F&A), or indirect, cost rate for new and existing grants to 15%, effective Feb. 10, 2025.

Follow-up article to the one posted Friday, February 7 regarding the NIH releasing supplemental guidance to the NIH Grants Policy Statement imposing a standard facilities & administrative (F&A) costs (also known as indirect costs) rate of 15% for all NIH grantee institutions.