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

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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.

The NIH released 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. Importantly, every year since 2017, the annual spending bill that funds NIH has included language from Congress prohibiting the Administration from making changes to F&A cost rates.