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);

• Private settlements: New York University (July 2024); North Carolina State (Aug. 2024)

• 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), Haverford College (amended Sept. 2013), Northwestern Univ., and UC Davis (May 2024); Kestenbaum v. Harvard (Jan. 2024; judge denied motion to dismiss, Aug. 2024)

• Dept. of Education’s Office for Civil Rights investigations into Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Univ. of Minnesota, Ohio State, Temple Univ., 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)

• 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).

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

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