The Justice Department announced it will no longer enforce disparate‑impact liability under Title VI, removing a decades‑old tool that allowed complaints based on statistical disparities rather than proven intent. The move limits how students, staff and communities can bring claims of systemic race or sex discrimination against colleges and university policies, and the department said the change reduces costly compliance burdens. Civil‑rights advocates warned the policy will make it harder to surface structural inequities in hiring, admissions and campus practices; the NAACP Legal Defense Fund called the change “troubling.” The rule formalizes the administration’s broader rollback of enforcement tools and will likely trigger litigation and heightened campus compliance uncertainty.