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 public universities—if institutions allow professors to “espouse[], promote[], advance[], inculcate[], or compel[] … [a] student or employee to believe any of the [specified] concepts.”

The FEEA also commands the Board of Governors to “adopt regulations to implement this section as it relates to state universities.” § 1000.05(6)(b), Fla. Stat. (2022). To that end, the Board of Governors, on August 26, 2022, issued an implementing regulation that finalized the Board of Governors’sGovernors’ [sic] enforcement mechanism with respect to section 1000.05(4)(a). See ECF No. 1-2, in Case No.: 4:22cv324-MW/MAF (Regulation 10.005, Prohibition of Discrimination in University Training or Instruction). The regulation identifies the eight concepts specified in section 1000.05(4)(a), Florida Statutes, and requires “[e]ach university” to “have a university regulation that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, or sex by subjecting any student or employee to training or instruction that espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels such student or employee to believe any” of those specified concepts. Id. at 2–3.

The regulation also requires each university to follow certain investigatory protocols, including “inform[ing] the Board of Governors through the Office of Inspector General” if the university’s “investigation finds that an instruction or training is inconsistent with the university regulation.” Id. at 3. The Board of Governors commands state universities to “take prompt action to correct the