The move echoes an ultimately successful gambit several federal agencies pulled against Columbia University last month.
Citing “unprecedented conditions,” the university’s chancellor said it was freezing hiring and delaying capital projects.
A joint Title IX Special Investigations Team will shift some civil rights investigations and enforcement from the Education Department to the Justice Department.
Plaintiffs argue that agency leaders “upended NIH’s enviable track record of rigor and excellence, launching a reckless and illegal purge.”