Protecting Students on Campus Act of 2025

This bill aims to make it easier for college students to know their civil rights and how to report discrimination based on race, color, or national origin. The Department of Education must run a yearly awareness campaign about Title VI rights and send materials to colleges for posting in busy campus spots and on high-traffic web pages. Colleges that get federal student aid must also put a clear link on their homepage showing how to file a Title VI complaint with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) .

OCR must brief Congress each month for a year on the number of complaints, how they are being handled, and how long cases stay open. Colleges must file annual reports on discrimination complaints they receive. The Education Department’s Inspector General will audit schools with the highest per-student complaint rates and study why some complaints go to schools while others go to OCR. OCR may not close a complaint just because another agency or a school’s own process addressed it .

• Who is affected: Students, colleges that receive federal student aid, and the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights .
• What changes: Colleges must post how to file Title VI complaints and display annual awareness materials; OCR increases transparency; schools report complaint data; federal audits focus on schools with many complaints; OCR cannot dismiss a complaint due to another resolution path .
• When: The awareness campaign updates annually; monthly briefings run for one year after enactment; school reporting and audits occur annually .