Policy and Legal Affairs

Facing its own budget cuts, Eastern Michigan University offers an online list of coronavirus-related financial impacts at other colleges and universities.

The Trump administration's new rule for Title IX allows college students accused of sexual assault or harassment to have live hearings and cross-examine accusers.

The three-day Academic Esports Conference features nearly 60 sessions with academic and esports experts who will address needs at both K-12 and higher education and offer strategies, guidance and best practices.

Universities that have refunded less than 100 percent due to COVID-19 closures face the prospect of class actions, say UB guest columnists Hyongsoon Kim, Molly Whitman, Robert Pees and Anthony Pierce of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. Some have been filed; more are a certainty. Here's why.

Students on several campuses have filed lawsuits demanding tuition refunds, arguing that the online classes they are now taking don't match the quality of in-person instruction. But colleges cite new expenses.

A university’s compensation to students and parents for closing university housing and other facilities due to COVID-19 may be covered, say UB guest columnists Timothy P. Law and Elizabeth Vieyra, of Reed Smith LLP.