{"title":"Judge rules in favor of former student","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/dhe.32009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dhe.32009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Case name:</b> <i>Melendez v. University of New Hampshire, et al.</i>, No. 23-cv-00172 (D.N.H. 02/10/25).</p>","PeriodicalId":100378,"journal":{"name":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","volume":"30 12","pages":"13-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heed new OCR guidance for avoiding discriminatory uses of AI","authors":"Eric Lyerly Esq.","doi":"10.1002/dhe.32000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dhe.32000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Much has been written about the ethics of using artificial intelligence in higher education. Less has been written about the legal implications of using AI at colleges and universities, especially considering discrimination laws. However, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights recently threw its hat into the ring and published a resource titled “Avoiding the Discriminatory Use of Artificial Intelligence.” Note: while this guidance was published shortly before President Trump took office, as of press time, it had not been altered, so it still contains useful information for colleges. Because the Education Department and OCR have deleted hundreds of webpages, the guide can be found here.</p>","PeriodicalId":100378,"journal":{"name":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","volume":"30 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Judge blocks President Trump's executive order demanding closure of ED","authors":"Eric Lyerly Esq.","doi":"10.1002/dhe.31996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dhe.31996","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A federal judge recently blocked President Trump's executive order requiring the Education Department to take all necessary steps to advance its closure. The judge ordered the ED to reinstate over 1,000 workers who were laid off earlier this year during a Reduction in Force, a move that resulted in the shuttering of seven Office for Civil Rights offices.</p>","PeriodicalId":100378,"journal":{"name":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","volume":"30 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Judge rules against former employee","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/dhe.32012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dhe.32012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Case name:</b> <i>Taylor v. Monmouth Medical Center</i>, No. 24-6946 (D. N.J. 03/19/25).</p>","PeriodicalId":100378,"journal":{"name":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","volume":"30 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Judge rules against former employee","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/dhe.32010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dhe.32010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Case name:</b> <i>Plotner v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois</i>, No. 2:22-cv-2202 (C.D. Ill. 02/10/25).</p>","PeriodicalId":100378,"journal":{"name":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","volume":"30 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understand how access rights apply to service animals at athletics events","authors":"Timothy O’Brien","doi":"10.1002/dhe.31995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dhe.31995","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Media reports of people attempting to bring their emotional support animals, ranging from peacocks to pigs, along with them on airline flights have become more commonplace than ever. The range and types of these animals have varied greatly, leaving many people to wonder about the legitimacy of their characterization as true and necessary emotional support animals and/or their potential qualification as service animals.</p>","PeriodicalId":100378,"journal":{"name":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","volume":"30 12","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Court dismisses claim against college","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/dhe.31990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dhe.31990","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>CASE NAME:</b> <i>Roland v. Donnelly College, et al</i>., No. 24-cv-2406 (D. Kan. 02/20/25).</p>","PeriodicalId":100378,"journal":{"name":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","volume":"30 11","pages":"14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"OCR: College mishandled request for service animal","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/dhe.31984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dhe.31984","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>CASE NAME:</b> <i>Letter re: Pikes Peak State College</i>, No. 08-24-2149 (OCR 08/02/24).</p>","PeriodicalId":100378,"journal":{"name":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","volume":"30 11","pages":"10-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Unlocked: A conversation with author Emily Grossman","authors":"Jenna Rose","doi":"10.1002/dhe.31976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dhe.31976","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For many students, the college experience includes cramming for exams, joining campus groups, having dinner with friends in the dining hall, and maybe pulling the occasional all-nighter. For Emily Grossman, her time in college included all the standard college milestones, while also navigating being in and out of treatment for bipolar disorder. Emily shares her journey, and the lessons she learned along the way in <i>Unlocked: 25 Keys to Recovering from Depression, Anxiety or Bipolar Disorder</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":100378,"journal":{"name":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","volume":"30 11","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Republican AGs clarify stance on legal challenge to Section 504","authors":"Eric Lyerly Esq.","doi":"10.1002/dhe.31977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dhe.31977","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Last September, 17 Republican state attorneys general sued the Biden administration over its decision to update Section 504 to potentially include protections for gender dysphoria. Parts of the lawsuit went as far as requesting that the entirety of Section 504 be found unconstitutional, prompting widespread concern among disability rights groups and advocates. The lawsuit also challenges other aspects of Section 504 under the Spending Clause of Article I of the U.S. Constitution.</p>","PeriodicalId":100378,"journal":{"name":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","volume":"30 11","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}