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Higher education
fromBoston.com
1 month agoMIT scores legal win as federal court dismisses appeal in lawsuit claiming campus protests were antisemitic
A federal appeals court dismissed the lawsuit, finding student protests did not constitute actionable antisemitism and MIT was not deliberately indifferent.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoSurge in antisemitism investigations at US universities after October 7 attacks, data shows
Federal investigations into universities over antisemitism surged after 7 October 2023, using Title VI to restrict campus speech, target pro-Palestinian activism, and threaten funding cuts.
fromThe New Yorker
1 month agoWhen the Government Stops Defending Civil Rights
President Donald Trump has struck a different tone, suggesting that some of these workers "don't deserve" back pay and seizing the opportunity to fire others, particularly those who staff and run what he has called "Democrat agencies." One of these agencies is the Department of Education, whose Office for Civil Rights enforces laws such as Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act-which bars discrimination based on race, color, and national origin-in federally funded schools and colleges.
US politics
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 months agoHHS Civil Rights Arm Joins in Trump's Higher Ed Crackdown
In June, in an escalation of the Trump administration's pressure on Harvard University to bow to its demands, a federal Office for Civil Rights announced that the institution was violating federal law. The office released a nearly 60-page report accusing Harvard of "deliberate indifference" to ongoing discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students, which is illegal under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Higher education
fromwww.npr.org
3 months agoTrump administration illegally froze billions in Harvard funds, judge rules
difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law].
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