Washington – US Education Department Monday Warned 60 universities “If they fail to protect Jewish students on campus, they could face impacts.
In a statement that released letters to schools around the country, the department did not detail what outcomes schools will face, but the letter came less than a week after the administration announced it was roughly cancelling. $400 million in federal grants and contracts To Columbia University over “continuous inaction at schools in the face of permanent harassment of Jewish students.”
President Donald Trump and his administration have focused on restraining anti-Semitism on university campuses on October 7, 2023, following Hamas’ attacks on Israeli and Israeli anti-attacks, which erupted last year in a string of campus protests.
Weekend immigration authorities Arrested and detained A former Colombian graduate student who helped organize the campus protests against the Israeli war in Gaza last year. Student Mahmoud Khalil is a legal permanent resident and was not accused of immigration violations. President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio merged the war protests in Gaza with help from Hamas streamline their arrests.
Columbia University is listed as one of the schools that received the warnings that could violate Title VI, which prohibits discrimination based on the race, color and national origin of the institution that receives federal funds.
“The department is deeply disappointed that Jewish students studying on elite US campuses continue to fear safety amid more than a year of ruthless anti-Semitic eruptions that have severely disrupted campus life, the university leader said in a statement Monday.
“U.S. universities benefit from the enormous public investment funded by US taxpayers. That support is a privilege and conditional on strict compliance with federal differentiation laws,” McMahon said. Confirmed by the US Senate And I was sworn last week.
Anti-Semitism Initiative
The letter came after Trump Presidential Order Late January focused on “additional measures to combat anti-Semitism.”
Following the order, the administration announced its creation in early February Multi-Agency Task Force “Fighting anti-Semitism” and its top priority is to “eliminate anti-Semitism harassment on school and university campuses.”
February, The department has begun an investigation He went to Columbia with Northwest Illinois University. Portland State University, Oregon. University of California, Berkeley. University of Minnesota, Twin City. Beyond reports of “wide-reaching anti-Semitist harassment.”
The department said Monday that “55 additional universities are under investigation or monitoring in response to filed complaints (the office of the Civil Rights Office).”
The 60 public and private schools submitted include:
American University; Arizona State University; Boston University; Brown University; California State University, Sacramento. Chapman University; Columbia University; Cornell University; Drexel University; Eastern Washington University; Emerson College; George Mason University; Harvard University; Illinois Wesleyan University. Indiana University, Bloomington. Johns Hopkins University. Lafayette College; Lehigh University; Middlebury College; Muhlenberg College; Northwestern University; Ohio State University; Pacific Lutheran University; Pomona College; Portland State University; Princeton University; Rutgers University; Rutgers University Newark. Santa Monica College; Sarah Lawrence College. Stanford University; Binghamton, State University of New York. Rockland, State University of New York. New York State University, Purchase; Swarthmore University; Temple University; New School. Tufts University; Tulane University; Union College; Wellesley College; Whitman University and Yale University.
It also includes the University of California Davis. San Diego California; Santa Barbara California; Berkeley California; Cincinnati; Hawaii in Manoa. Massachusetts Amherst; Michigan; Minnesota, Twin City. North Carolina; South Florida; Southern California; Tampa; Tennessee; Virginia; Washington Seattle; Wisconsin, Madison.
Last updated at 5:50pm, March 10th, 2025
