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March 12, 2025
ALERT: USED RIF, Antisemitism Enforcement, PSLF EO, Legal Developments
This EducationCounsel Alert includes updates about various recent Trump Administration executive actions relevant to education, including:
- A massive reduction in force (RIF) at the U.S. Department of Education (USED);
- Unprecedented enforcement actions against Columbia University (and targeted investigations of 60 other universities) for allegedly failing to take sufficient action against antisemitism on campus;
- An executive order (EO) calling for changes to reduce access to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program (PSLF); and
- Developments in education-related litigation against Trump Administration actions.
This Alert includes brief overviews of these actions. You can find more detailed summaries and initial analyses of executive actions through March 6 in our ongoing Executive Actions Chart (although not all of the actions summarized in this Alert are in the Chart yet). All of EducationCounsel’s resources related to the Administration’s executive actions are now available in one place by clicking here or on the blue banner at the top of our webpage. Please share any and all of our resources with your networks and anyone who might find them helpful.
Finally, please note that these developments are sometimes changing rapidly so information may become outdated, and nothing in this Alert constitutes specific legal advice.
Click here to access the Alert and click here to download a PDF version.
These materials have been prepared for informational purposes only and are not legal advice. This information is not intended to create, and receipt of it does not constitute, an attorney-client relationship. Internet subscribers and online readers should not act upon this information without seeking professional counsel.