Your college has a strong commitment to DEI work, but you’re concerned about the Trump Administration’s Executive Order banning DEI. You’re not sure how seriously to take it, or what the early court rulings against the order mean. You’re unclear on whether it intersects with Title VI and how, but you’re seeing campus after campus being dinged by the federal government for failing to address Antisemitism. Your campus is making slow progress on adjusting programs based on the best information you can cobble together, when all of a sudden, you get slammed with a lawsuit for non-compliance. You thought the Trump Administration’s threat to withhold federal funding was scary, but now this lawsuit under something called the False Claims Act is seeking 3x your federal funding in damages. Worse, you learn that a professor at your college filed the suit, and is now claiming whistleblower status. Your attorneys have informed you that the Trump Administration has now intervened in the suit. What a mess. Could this have been avoided?
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The FCA is a federal law that penalizes those who knowingly defraud the federal government. The law is most commonly talked about in relation to federal contractors, but it has been used to achieve significant settlements and judgments against for-profit colleges. The basic idea is that if your college accepts federal funds and agrees to comply with various...
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