Northwestern, Illinois Wesleyan under investigation by DOE. Here's what to know
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The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights sent a letter to 60 higher education institutions on March 10 demanding they fulfill their responsibility to protect Jewish students on campus, according to a DOE press release.
Northwestern University and Illinois Wesleyan University are among the list of institutions warned of "potential enforcement actions if they do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus, including uninterrupted access to campus facilities and educational opportunities."
A press release says the 60 institutions are under investigation for Title VI violations relating to "antisemitic harassment and discrimination." Title VI prohibits any federally funded institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, color and national origin — including shared Jewish ancestry.
The department previously announced on Feb. 3 that it was launching investigations into five higher education institutions, including Northwestern University, "where widespread antisemitic harassment has been reported."
Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary for the department's Civil Rights Office, cited the universities' 2024 pro-Palestinian student encampments as evidence of the harassment in the press release. The release also referenced President Donald Trump's executive order, Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism, in which the president demanded colleges and universities "protect American Jews to the same extent to which all other American citizens are protected."
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Here's the full list:
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
State University of New York Binghamton
State University of New York Rockland
State University of New York, Purchase
Swarthmore College
Temple University
The New School
Tufts University
Tulane University
Union College
University of California Davis
University of California San Diego
University of California Santa Barbara
University of California, Berkeley
University of Cincinnati
University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
University of North Carolina
University of South Florida
University of Southern California
University of Tampa
University of Tennessee
University of Virginia
University of Washington-Seattle
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Wellesley College
Whitman College
Yale University
Contribution by Jenny Porter Tilley
This article originally appeared on Journal Star: A rundown on DOE's investigations into Northwestern, Illinois Wesleyan
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