Broader View

Note: I try to keep this list up to date, but it’s a moving target. If you are aware of any additional complaints, investigations, lawsuits, or settlements please let me know!

• Settlements with the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights: Drew University (Madison, NJ) (May 2024); University of Michigan, City Univ. of New York, and Lafayette College (June 2024); New York University (July 2024); Drexel University (August 2024); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Muhlenberg College (Sept. 2024); Occidental College (Nov. 2024); Temple University, Univ. of California, and Univ. of Cincinnati (Dec. 2024); Rutgers Univ., Johns Hopkins Univ., Lehigh Univ., Univ. of Washington, (Jan. 2025)

See also: Many Colleges Are Settling Antisemitism Cases. Some Republicans Blast ‘Toothless’ Agreements, U.S. News & World Report, January 16, 2025

• Private settlements: New York University (July 2024); North Carolina State (Aug. 2024), Haverford College lawsuit dismissed (Jan. 2025); California College of the Arts (Jan. 2025); Harvard (settled Jan-2025, including adopting IHRA definition)

• Private lawsuits: New York University (Nov. 2023); Carnegie Mellon University, Art Institute of Chicago, McMaster University (Dec. 2023); Rutgers Law School (Jan. 2024); Columbia & Barnard (February 2024, amended June 2024); MIT (March 2024, amended May 2024); Harvard University (alumni lawsuit Feb. 2024; federal judge declined to dismiss “hostile educational environment” lawsuit, Nov. 2024), Haverford College (amended Sept. 2013), Northwestern Univ., and UC Davis (May 2024); Kestenbaum v. Harvard (Jan. 2024; judge denied motion to dismiss, Aug. 2024); Concordia University (Canada; Nov. 2024), Haverford (Dec. 2024: Court allowed plaintiffs to remain anonymous), Univ. of Virginia (settled Dec. 2024), Carnegie Mellon, Univ. of Pennsylvania, and Hunter College (Dec. 2024)

• Dept. of Education’s Office for Civil Rights investigations into the Univ. of Washington (Dec. 2023); Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Univ. of Minnesota, Ohio State, Temple University, Muhlenberg College, and others (Jan. 2024); Johns Hopkins Univ. (Feb. 2024); Illinois Wesleyan University; Middlebury College, UC Berkeley, Swarthmore College, SUNY Rockland Community College, UC Santa Barbara (March 2024); Lehigh Univ., UC Davis, Ohio State, Univ. of Virginia, Princeton, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst (April 2024); Brown University (July 2024); Liberty University and Cooley Law School (Aug. 2024); Sarah Lawrence College, Tufts Univ. (Jan. 2025)

• Federal Title VI civil rights complaints: University of California (Nov. 2023); American University (Jan. 2024); Middlebury College (Feb. 2024); Sarah Lawrence College (March 2024); Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, Pomona and Occidental Colleges (May 2024); SUNY Purchase, Colorado College (Aug. 2024); Univ. of Washington (Oct. 2024).

• U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce investigates antisemitism at Yale and the Univ of Michigan (May 2024); MIT, UC Berkeley, and Rutgers (March 2024). Multiple other committees of the U.S. House of Representatives are investigating antisemitism at 10 universities: Barnard College, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, Rutgers University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Los Angeles (June 2024).

• Local and state efforts: Virginia investigation into campus antisemitism (Nov. 2024); Maryland proposed legislation requiring Title VI coordinators (Nov. 2024); New York governor commissioned a report about antisemitism at CUNY (Sept. 2024), and NYC Council held hearing about it (Nov. 2024).

• StandWithUs letters to Ohio State University, and (with Alums for Campus Fairness) Northwestern University and Lehigh University (Jan. 2024).

Universities’ Positive Actions To Address Campus Antisemitism

• Proposals to divest from Israel were rejected at the Univ. of Virginia and Wesleyan Univ. (Sept. 2024); Brown Univ. (Oct. 2024), Univ. of Maryland and Williams College (Nov. 2024); Univ. of Maine, Univ. of Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins Univ., Rhode Island School of Design, Duke Univ., and the student government of Binghamton Univ. (Jan. 2025).

• The president of Clark University (Worchester, MA) issued a statement disavowing BDS and saying that the school’s endowment is not a tool for expressing political views or advancing specific interests (Dec. 2024).

• Duke Univ. Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility (ACIR) rejects divestment proposal (Dec. 2024)

• NYU and Columbia suspended students who disrupted school (Jan. 2025)

• Hamilton College adds Jewish studies minor (Jan. 2025)

• Updated policies for protests and time, place, and manner restrictions for “expressive activity” at many universities, including Ohio State, Northwestern, Rutgers, Franklin & Marshall, Indiana Univ., Carnegie Mellon, Emory, California State and Univ. of California systems, Univ. of Virginia, Princeton, James Madison Univ., NYU (which specifically addressed the term “Zionist”), Univ. of Pennsylvania, Univ. of Texas at Austin, and Univ. of South Florida.

• Univ. of Texas at Austin established a new Event Readiness and Response team and investigated students arrested during protests for possible violations of UT’s Student Code of Conduct (June 2024).

• New York University established a new position, Title VI Coordinator, to oversee NYU’s compliance with issues concerning discrimination and harassment based on race, color and national origin. (Sept. 2024). The Univ. of Pennsylvania established a Title VI center (Sept. 2024) and an an Office of Religious and Ethnic Inclusion (Jan. 2025).

• The Univ. of Pittsburgh is forming a working group on antisemitism (Jan. 2025)

• Wichita State student government passed a resolution denouncing antisemitism (Sept. 2024).

• Proposals to divest from Israel were rejected at the Univ. of Virginia and Wesleyan Univ. (Sept. 2024); Brown Univ. (Oct. 2024), Univ. of Maryland and Williams College (Nov. 2024); Univ. of Maine, Univ. of Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins Univ., Rhode Island School of Design, Duke Univ., and the student government of Binghamton Univ. (Jan. 2025).

• Anti-Israel student groups were suspended at Tufts Univ. and Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Oct. 2024).

• Interview with Vanderbilt University Chancellor Daniel Diermeier (42’), Call Me Back podcast with Dan Senior, Episode #286, November 17, 2024. Vanderbilt clearly articulated and forcefully enforced the simple and consistent principles of free speech, institutional neutrality, and civil discourse.