This week, the Division of Training’s Workplace for Civil Rights despatched letters to 60 universities throughout the nation, inserting them beneath investigation. In line with the division, these letters served as warnings of potential enforcement actions towards universities “if they don’t fulfill their obligations beneath Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to guard Jewish college students on campus.”
This got here shortly after the Trump administration canceled $400 million in federal grants and contracts at Columbia College on account of the Ivy League’s alleged failure to deal with antisemitism on campus throughout pro-Palestine protests.
“Universities should adjust to all federal anti-discrimination legal guidelines if they’re going to obtain federal funding,” Training Secretary Linda McMahon mentioned in an announcement. “For too lengthy, Columbia has deserted that obligation to Jewish college students learning on its campus.”
Forward of the choice, President Trump threatened to cease “all federal funding for any Faculty, Faculty, or College that permits unlawful protests.” He additionally added that “agitators will probably be imprisoned/or completely despatched again to the nation from which they got here.”
Although Trump has but to outline “unlawful protests,” due to the president’s threats paired with the administration’s concentrate on pupil pro-Palestine protests, many People have issues for his or her First Modification rights which assure freedom of speech. Particularly following the latest arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful everlasting resident and Columbia pupil who Trump reportedly known as a “Radical International Professional-Hamas Scholar,” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on March 8.
Although a federal choose has blocked the administration’s try and deport Khalil, his case might be the primary of many beneath the Division of Training’s investigation. From Ivy Leagues to state faculties, each giant and small, the colleges which have reportedly been positioned beneath investigation embody:
American College
Arizona State College
Boston College
Brown College
California State College, Sacramento
Chapman College
Columbia College
Cornell College
Drexel College
Jap Washington College
Emerson Faculty
George Mason College
Harvard College
Illinois Wesleyan College
Indiana College, Bloomington
Johns Hopkins College
Lafayette Faculty
Lehigh College
Middlebury Faculty
Muhlenberg Faculty
Northwestern College
Ohio State College
Pacific Lutheran College
Pomona Faculty
Portland State College
Princeton College
Rutgers College
Rutgers College-Newark
Santa Monica Faculty
Sarah Lawrence Faculty
Stanford College
State College of New York Binghamton
State College of New York Rockland
State College of New York, Buy
Swarthmore Faculty
Temple College
The New Faculty
Tufts College
Tulane College
Union Faculty
College of California Davis
College of California San Diego
College of California Santa Barbara
College of California, Berkeley
College of Cincinnati
College of Hawaii at Manoa
College of Massachusetts Amherst
College of Michigan
College of Minnesota, Twin Cities
College of North Carolina
College of South Florida
College of Southern California
College of Tampa
College of Tennessee
College of Virginia
College of Washington-Seattle
College of Wisconsin, Madison
Wellesley Faculty
Whitman Faculty
Yale College
