NIH Notice NOT-OD-25-090: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award
Dear Colleagues,
NIH posted a Notice NOT-OD-25-090: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award on April 21, 2025. The purpose of this notice is to inform the NIH funded community of a new Civil Rights term and condition that modifies the current terms and conditions for all NIH grants, cooperative agreements, and other transaction (OT) awards. This term applies prospectively to new, renewal, supplement, or continuation awards issued on or after the date of this Notice. This new requirement supersedes Section 4.1.2 “Civil Rights Protections” of the NIH Grants Policy Statement (GPS) as well as the negotiated terms of OT awards.
This Notice is applicable to domestic recipients of new, renewal, supplement, or continuation awards that are issued on or after the date of this Notice. Per this notice, all recipients of NIH funding must comply with all applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws material to the government’s payment decisions for purposes of 31 U.S.C. § 372(b)(4), also known as False Claims Act.
The NIH grant award compliance now includes that by accepting the grant award, recipients are certifying that
(i) They do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws; and
(ii) They do not engage in and will not during the term of this award engage in, a discriminatory prohibited boycott.
Please carefully review the NIH Notice NOT-OD-25-090 for certification requirements.
If you receive any notification including a stop order, termination, budget change on indirect costs rate on your award/proposal, or request to sign any attestation from any funding agency, please forward the notification with any attachment to me immediately at dhawan@njit.edu and copy Eric Hetherington at erich@njit.edu.
Please do not sign any document sent to you regarding any attestation on the federal research grants.
We will continue to carefully review at the institutional level with the provost and general counsel offices to advise and follow up. The Office for Research and the Office of General Counsel will review the request and respond with instructions for you to follow.
Please visit our website periodically for updates on this situation.