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SEATTLE, Washington –– It took nearly the entire hour-long session for William Gil, the Senior Director for Governmental Relations at AACRAO, to finally summarize the Trump Administration's multi-pronged attack against higher education. When asked why colleges have been such an early and frequent target, Gil simply said, “It feels like a cultural battle.”

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.

CASE NAME: Rogers v. Western Governors University, No. 23-cv-3774 (S.D. Ill. 02/20/25).

In January 2017, in this publication, I wrote the following:

While it is folly to predict what is likely to happen to higher education in the United States under a Trump administration, it is reasonable to speculate about a few possible scenarios.

I attended an AACRAO meeting a few years ago. The question of whether to disclose education record information based on an open records request came up. The question came from a public college registrar. He mentioned that he had just received a request from a local apartment owner asking for an address list of all currently enrolled students. The owner said that the information was “public information” and that the college could not deny the request.

CASE NAME: Szeto v. University of Colorado, No. 22-cv-01592 (D. Colo. 02/19/25).

CASE NAME: Letter re: Alamogordo School District, No. 08-24-1301 (OCR 07/29/24).

Let's just be real: attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) aren’t going to get let up anytime soon. And for those who are deeply committed to the work, many of us are grappling with a pressing question: How do we continue doing the work that we know is vital when legislative and institutional barriers threaten our ability to call it what it is and move forward solutions for our most vulnerable students — and faculty?

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!”

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Aug. 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial

Do you remember the media center director from last month's column? He was the person who asked me, during a Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act workshop, if his college could include photographs and videos of students as directory information. He asked the question since his office had been obtaining signed consents from students before the media center took their pictures. Of course, the advantage to him was that, if photos/videos could be part of the college's directory information, his office would not have to obtain the students’ written consents before their pictures were taken. The office would only have to know which of the students had exercised their FERPA right of non-disclosure. Thus, a sizable bureaucratic burden would disappear. That, in fact, is what happened, and the media center director became a happy camper.